- One trench coat, black, awesome
- Two pairs of shoes, black and brown flats
- Converters, adaptors
- Books
+ Valley of the Dolls
+ Self-Made Man (hardback, for $3 on clearance! wow and sad, all at once.)
+ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
+ Take the Cannoli
+ Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
I feel sort of ungrateful taking a book about Chinese food culture to Italy and France. Maybe I'll take The Botany of Desire instead. Gotta cover all my favorite genre bases.
The last thing I got was the French edition of Rosetta Stone. I got the Italian one the summer before I came to college, but I didn't really stick with it like I'd planned so the most I got out of it was being able to count before everyone else. Considering how incredibly nervous I am about my Italian proficiency (not looking too good after I scrambled it with Spanish working at IHOP) I'm hoping I'll keep at it out of pure fear of being trapped in some dark alleyway surrounded by french hoodlums and dominatrixes (as I remember from previous Europe trips - or maybe just my dreams - those are the two categories french men and women fall into, respectively) with my only two french phrases to defend myself: "merde" and "jus de pamplemousse, s'il vous plait."
1 comment:
i totally exist in the bloggy world. and by totally, i mean occassionally.
the LJ world is mostly for me having freakouts, because i like to do that in front of a smaller internet audience.
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