Reims, and Paris goodness

Hello everyone.
I apoligize in advance for this post, as it will probably be as convoluted and full of typos as usual, as I am trying to carry on conversations on AIM, listen to Band of Horses, and update my blog at the same time. So here we go. Thursday I did go to the book store to see David Sedaris, he read some stories (always hilarious), and then did a book signing afterwards, which was very cool. He drew a little picture of Abraham Lincoln trapped in a turtle's body in mine (I'm still not entirely sure why...but ok), very cool. That night I ended up going out Kristin and Joe. We found this English bar called the Long Hop, which was a pretty cool bar; it was also student night, so we got drinks half-price, always good. Afterwards we grabbed a crepe and called it a night, heading back in time to catch the metro. Friday I slept in until like 1pm, catching up on some much-needed sleep, and then I spent the day studying for my Cinema midterm tomorrow. I headed over to Paris III and staked out a spot, and then re-watched most of several of the movies. In the evening I headed home and ate an early dinner, jumpy from sitting and watching movies for so long. Feeling impatient, as none of my friends were ready to hang out, I gave Xavier a call to see if he wanted to meet for a drink or something. He did, so I headed back down to Montparnasse to meet up with him. He then took me on a really long walk to find this cafe/bar he wanted to show me that he seemed pretty excited about. However, when we finally arrived it was pretty quiet-apparently they usually have great live music and everything on Friday nights, but the waitress explained that there wasn't one this weekend for some reason :(. We were pretty disappointed, but stayed and had a couple beers, talking and getting to know each other a little better. After a while, I explained that I had promised to meet up with my friends (which was true), so he walked me to the metro and we rode together for a bit before he got off and headed home. I then met up with Kristin, as well as our friend Caroline and two of her friends that were visiting-one of which was Sarah (Heather's friend that I met in Prague). We hung out and talked for a bit in the St. Michel area, before heading home, as they were pretty exhausted from travelling and it was getting a bit late. Saturday morning, I got up at 7am (argh!), as Sweet Briar had a trip to Reims. It was a really good trip; we did a tour of the "Caves" of Champagne, which also included some weird contemporary art scattered throughout it, and got to taste a glass at the end-very good. Afterwards we were given some time to grab lunch and wander around Reims, before meeting in front of the cathedral. We then had a long tour of the Cathedral (Notre Dame), part of which was outside-it was FREEZING. By the end everyone was practically running to the warmth of the bus, and we headed back to Paris, getting in at around 7. My friend Jen and I then went to find some dinner, again in Saint Michel. After walking around a bit, we decided to call it a night, as all of our friends were either out of town, broke, tired, or just had too much work to go out. This was fine with me, i had gotten up at 7 am after all. Not the most exciting over Saturday nights, but a very good day overall. Today, I studied in the morning, then headed over to Kristin's house for lunch-her host mom insists on a huge sunday lunch, and had suggested that Kristin invite a friend over to share it. I of course was more than happy to oblige, my host mom doesn't feed me more than she's required to, so a free lunch is always good. After lunch, we ended up watching an episode of the Colbert Report via her laptop, and then just wasting our time talking and distracting one another. Finally, around 6pm I decided it was time to head home and actually get some work done, so off I went. And here I am, back at McDonald's to use the Wifi, and to take a break from studying...I'm really hoping my exam tomorrow goes okay, since it is all in french, and my first cinema class, i'm kind of stressing. Also, the Professor neglected to post a bibliography, with suggested books and such to read on the subject, until like yesterday; so basically it was utterly worthless, and really frustrating...I had been checking for it online for like two weeks, and he didn't put it up until two days before the exam, ARGH. I'm just going to hope that it's not really necessary. That's the thing about the french system, the teachers will give you a list of like 20-50 books, and you're just supposed to kind of pick a few at will to read...or not, as my literature advisor essentialy told me to do. So we'll see how this goes, hopefully I don't fail miserably, or misunderstand a question and lose my ability to communicate in French :). Wish me luck, love you all,
Brit