The expression usually made to describe ambivalence or some kind of frustration.
While living aboard, this tends to come up a lot. This is a blog about me, living abroad, and being foreign and awkward.
As some of you may have noticed, our little frankenhoodie has been rather absent on the blogshere. All of that is about to change as she has a new blog! I'll miss her here, but am excited to see her moving on to more fun things!
I've officially let myself become run-down and sick. gross. All I want to do is sleep but sleep doesn't come to me (you). I can't help but wonder if it's because I have a big project due on Wednesday and this is some twisted way of procrastinating. Perhaps it's my hypochondria preventing me from getting it done? Then there is the fact that I didn't get very much sleep over the weekend because of work/shows I went to. Which were pretty respectable events, in my opinion. The Rilo Kiley show on Monday was (is always) excellent. I think that was my fifth time seeing the Jenny Lewis (who's counting?). My favorite part was the version of Portions for Foxes they did that segued into the third verse of Spectacular Views. The third verse goes like this: See the stars/where the birds make their home/staring back at us./ Indifferent, but distanced perfectly/ projected endlessly/ IT'S SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. (yell, yell, yell) If you don't know the song spectacular views then you're missing out, it's really high up on my list of fav. rilo songs. I also went to the Mates of State show over the weekend and it was good times. They are adorable. They did a cover of a Nico song that I absolutely love and is sort of perfect for my sick times anthem.
This year the Olympics are taking place in Beijing and it seems like everyone is protesting. Why? Well, there is the whole free Tibet issue, the pollution issue and the fact that Chinese are now performing genocide on cats (strays and non-strays) in an attempt to clean up for the summer games. That's where I draw the line. No Olympics for me (not that I was going or anything).
There is a demon in my head that won't let me sleep. I have to take two of my exams tomorrow(today) and all I want to do is rest so I can make the best guesses. so, sleep soon, please? k.
Okay, okay. School is wrapping up this semester but things seem to be building more than they are ending. I've finished with actual classes but somehow none of them are completely dead to me. I've got a paper due tuesday (?), 3 final exams, and an extra credit quiz/lecture to attend. I also need to learn the entire french language in a week... Oh well. It'll all be over next Sunday.
Anyways, so I don't seem totally lame compared to my globe-trotting sœur I want to report some goings on and events that I have attended. Last weekend, I went to the Belaire reunion show and it was A-mazing (capital A for emphasis). It was raining a little bit but it only added to the ambiance. On the very last note that Yellow Fever played there was a lighting strike. It was sort of magical?
I attended my last french class and I turned in my final french project (of ma vie?). We were required to make a french treat so we made gateau au citron and I couldn't eat it. (even though I ate pumpkin bread this morning, so not vegan, but so delicious) Curse my (selective) vegan-ness. Later that day, I went to Mr. Naturals, a local vegetarian restaurant, with a group of vegans and it was fantastico! They had soy ice cream and a few other vegan treats so I was really happy. I guess it doesn't take much.
