Nous sommes malades, encore une fois.

So, I hope everyone else had a much more enjoyable weekend than we did.  Jon has been sick with a cold since Friday, which he has so wonderfully passed on to me.  This resulted in an extremely mediocre weekend.

Saturday morning started out nicely though.  We got up at a reasonable time and headed to the beach before the little brat could actually start screaming (yes!) and enjoyed a little over an hour in the sun.  Seeing as I have yet to purchase sunscreen, an hour was all I was willing to risk.  Fortunately no sunburn, unfortunately still no color.  We came home, made some lunch, and pretty much did nothing the rest of the day.  We’ve run out of things to do in Nice.

Sunday was definitely even worse.  I had a paper I had to write that I had been putting off forever because of the sheer stupidity of the assignment.  I’m going to vent for a moment: I am a Sociology major.  One of the core classes for my major is Research Methods, of which the objective is obvious.  Now, the class I am currently taking is a Sociology elective called Social Psychology.  Any professor who teaches a class for Sociology majors aught to know the requirements for the degree, therefore, they should go off assigning papers and assignments that meet the requirements of other classes.  This is exactly what happened.  Last semester I took Research Methods and completed an article deconstruction paper that teaches you how to properly read academic research articles, where to find these pieces of information and so on.  My Social Psychology professor assigned an identical paper; same questions, same objective.  Kind of a waste of my time, don’t you think?  Anyway, so given the fact that I knew it was a waste of my time, I didn’t work very efficiently on it.

While trying to avoid my paper I decided that, although I currently seriously detest running, I want to teach myself to enjoy it because its the easiest way you can work out and can be done almost anywhere you go.  So after looking at various running plans, picking a 5K for me to do when I get home (as a goal for myself so I don’t just blow it off), and enlisting the partnership of my sister, I decided that I would walk down to the Promenade des Anglais and see exactly what sort of running I am capable of.  Bad idea.  It being the beautiful Sunday it was, promenade was PACKED with people; stupid people too, you know, tourists. The kind that step right in front of a person thats running and then stops dead in their tracks.  I can’t count the amount of people I ran into, and nearly knocked over a few small children.  It was frustrating, and did not give my new running habit a good start.  And now that I woke up with Jon’s cold, it’ll be at least a few more days before I can find a better time to try and run in Nice.  Wish me luck!

I will however, say that I finally got my mother to Skype me.  I say that like she’s been able to the whole time and just hasn’t, but really she just hasn’t had a camera to do so.  Well I finally got to talk to her and it was nice.  I also had some much needed conversations with some friends back home, so at least I can say some parts of the weekend were enjoyable.

Today we started our third level of French.  We also moved to a smaller classroom, but ended up with pretty much just as many students.  I like this classroom better because its more intimate, but until the three fifteen year old girls from Italy leave after this week, it’ll be a little crowded.  Thats not to say they aren’t nice, just that they’re only staying for a week, along with a bunch of their other classmates scattered throughout our classes.  Must be Spring Break?

On a farm update, we have yet to hear anything definitive from Ireland.  Just a maybe should a Spanish couple fall through, but they have until April 15th to confirm.  Send good vibes!

Mettre un puzzle avec un enfant est ennuyeux

Please excuse the lack of posting, but the past couple days have been very laid back.  We’re back to having poor weather, which limits what you can do.  Other than a few museums that doesn’t interest me in the slightest, we’ve done all there really is to see in Nice.  So on a rainy day, there isn’t much to do, since walking around the city and sitting on the beach isn’t exactly an option like it is when the sun it out.

Laid back days aren’t exactly bad things though.  Jon had a lot of design work to do for a client back in the states, and I took advantage of the time by working 3 weeks ahead in one of my classes.  I’d prefer to work ahead in large chunks than have to constantly concern myself with it during the week.

Tomorrow we’re having another classmate dinner, this time at Khalid’s.  Tonight Jon and I went over to show him how to make our tzatziki, which became quite popular after we hosted lunch.  Needless to say, I’m at least excited about eating that tomorrow.  He’s a great cook though, so I’m always excited about dinner there.

Other than that, all I can say is that if I decide to have a child one day (which after spending 3 months here is highly unlikely) he will be properly socialized.  No “Only Child Syndrome” for me, my child will know how to share.  I have a growing list of things my hypothetical child will and won’t do, which includes but isn’t limited to: eating more than just bread, knowing how to use an inside voice, not watching television all day, everyday, etc.  This probably only made it on this post because I sat down to do a puzzle on the coffee table in the living room while Nicolas was doing something else, and he dropped what ever he was doing to show me how to properly put the puzzle together.  In other words, he completely took over and wouldn’t let me put it together myself.  Classic only child.  So irritating.  I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, and I haven’t done them in a while, so I was kind of excited, despite its mere 64 pieces.  I feel the need to by a 5000 piece mystery puzzle when I return to the states now.  Maybe I will.

C’est la vie.