Everything Is Beautiful At The Ballet

So I've been pretty stressed lately. I'm not good with exams. Even if I study, I panic when it comes to test taking, so I get discouraged and just don't bother studying at all which leads to bad grades all around. So getting bad mark after bad mark back is very frustraing.

Then there's the dossiers. I finished my dossier on Gothic Architectuer, thanks to a lot of pictures. Now rumor has it my Civ dossier on the 100 Years War is 15-20 pages which is NOT what I was expecting. How many times can I write "The French lost the battle"?? Yes people, I just made a deragatory remark about France. Get over it.

I'm sick of feeling so torn between two places that I love. I know I'm going home, so at this point I just want to be home. And I know as happy as I'll be there, part of me is going to miss the crap out of this place.

As a result of all this stress, I haven't been sleeping well. My body just doesn't let me sleep. It's cruel.

So tired, cranky and frustrated I went to the ballet at the Opera Garnier. How can you not be cheered up at a ballet? Especially when you're at the opera house where Phantom of the Opera takes place?

A lot of the people from AIFS who went left before the show was over, including Carmen. I stayed through the 3 1/2 hour spectacle, and loved every moment of it despite the uncomfortable seats. The story was romantic, the ballerinas restored my hope in a world of good things, and I left feeling pretty good.

Well, couldn't end there, could it? No. I was in the metro on the way home and this skeezy drunk guy starts on the "Bonsoir, mademoiselle" and trying to hide the huge 1664 bottle in his hand and following me. I figured if the creep tried anything I'd stab him with my apartment keys. I go into my clutch to get my keys and... oh that's right... Carmen brought the keys since we went together... Carmen who's already upstairs in bed on the 6th floor of the apartment... merde. I did get into the apartment but oh my goodness I had the biggest panic attack in the world.

Today was moderate, and moderate is good. I'll take moderate over a day like yesterday any day. But I am going to go and work on my papers a little bit, and I'll update again soon.