Getting Our Hot Chocolate On

MDR (Mort de rire, i.e., "dying of laughter", a.k.a., LOL). That's the only possible way to start this blog entry.

Today, I woke up to some wonderful Parisian snow, which would eventually turn into wet mush by the end of the day. In any case, the Métro was pretty packed today, especially in the morning, as people were recharging their Métro cards and heading off to work. I eventually got to class, and met with half the class, as everyone else was held back quite a bit because of the snowy conditions. I had my only class (economics) and then had the rest of the day to myself until the early evening when I had to return back to school to watch a movie for my immigration and citizenship class.

To pass the time, I walked along the Champs-Elysées, doing some window shopping for part of the time and taking part in the final markdowns for the winter season for the rest of the time. I then made my way over to the haircutting place I came across yesterday and, after going back and forth on whether or not I should get a haircut, found the place to be closed for the day, even though I was very much there before their posted closing time. I could technically call whomever at the place to set an appointment, but I didn't even see a contact number on the store front. So, I headed over to Franprix, only a few more stores down, and completed my grocery shopping for (hopefully) the next week. Following the end to my shopping excursion, I made my way back to school. On the way over, I found a really great crêperie/bar place just outside of the Dupleix stop; I had my cheapest and honestly best-tasting crêpe there. Were it not for the rain, I probably would've finished all of it by the time I got back. In any event, I eventually got there and met up with a few of my classmates from my immigration and citizenship class. Together, we watched Caché, which for some reason or another, has been added to my list of could-be-kinda-good-if-only-I-understood-what-just-happened kind of movies. After a quick stop at a pharmacy after the movie, I returned back to my room.

Yesterday, Trevor and I had planned to eat the rest of our salmon and green beans leftovers (which we did), but somehow ended up having yet another five-course meal in the process. I'm beginning to think that "leftovers" is an actual course title. In any case, we had:

*Leftover salmon with green beans (plus the choice of including leftover rice)
*Three-cheese (comté, emmental, and gouda) two-pasta casserole
*Salad
*Cheese (five cheeses this time around; the above, plus chèvre and rocquefort)
*Galette de la marmotte (to celebrate Groundhog's Day, we added a chocolate-covered marshmallow bear and a broken up mini macaroon (for the "ground") to our galette de bonne année), as well as liégeois au chocolat

Gotta go and finish up the rest of my homework... To end the night, Trevor and I plan on finishing up with our traditional hot chocolate (i.e., chocolat chaud) course.