ha, it's August, really?

[propinquitine]

Status Update: I'm alive!

The bar exam . . . went, and is over (which is the really important thing). Now I'm slowly getting used to being a non-student who doesn't have to take exams, and who is also a marginally pleasant person to be around. (Current project: remembering how not to pick apart every sentence said to me by someone else because, hey, it isn't a multiple choice question with a trick hidden somewhere in the depths of its syntax, Mom really just wants to know if I want to go shopping with her.)

I'm staying at my parents' house for a few days and catching up with them and some local friends, then headed back up north to pack up my apartment (and work on my mcshep_match story -- check this space next week for pleas for betaing!) and get ready to move to the DC metro area (which winkingstar and I plan to quite thoroughly conquer, once she gets back from gallivanting around Europe).

Mostly, I'm looking forward to catching up on all of the fun things and life-having that was going on while I've been in seclusion. Links to greatness are always appreciated, as are any suggestions for how to deal with my impending first September in twenty years that won't involve going to school.

Comments

[propinquitine.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm pretty sure your parents will take care of the making-you-come-back part, so I'll just eagerly anticipate all of your tales of European awesomeness. :D I'm so glad you're having such a good time!

And when you get back, we can wander around the most tourist-y spots in DC and be friendly and helpful to people from overseas, so that they think the US is awesome, too.

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it will take a lot more than being friendly to foreigners to make the U.S. anywhere near as awesome as Europe. They have castles! And library castles! And awesome libraries that aren't in castles! They have good food! And, specifically, good chocolate! Even their cheap chocolate is miles kilometres better than American chocolate! They have apfelstreudel! They make you pay if you don't bring your own bag to the grocery store!

To conclude, Europe is just full of exclamation marks! So I guess that means we have to work on adding exclamation marks (not exclamation points!) into American culture!

*is maybe slightly hyper* :D

[propinquitine.livejournal.com]

You know what would probably help us with adding exclamation marks all over the US? Some of that fancy European chocolate, hint hint. ;-)