I was never smart enough for Brown. Those folks scared me.

Rawr?

(I basically never bring it up, for those reasons, JZ. But I also developed a weird habit of saying, "Brown University, out in Rhode Island" my senior year of High School because nearly no one in my home town had heard of it, and the habit has persisted.)

That hotel sounds whack, meara. What city are you in?

I have already reached the stage of the cold where I want to tear off my own face, so you guys are going to have to talk more and entertain me.

I am currently resting in the cafe area of a department store in motherfucking Paris! And they have WiFi! I'm so exhausted, though. I have to go to the Louvre tomorrow, and I'd really better go first thing inthe morning. I have been jettisoning museums to visit like crazy, after remembering I'm not that big on art. I mean, it's fine, but not all day for four days.

Museums can be exhausting.

Ladies' short program is on NBCSN, Dana, if that helps.

We had thunder and lightning here a little while ago. Winter is totally drunk.

I don't have cable. *sniffle*

Everything is exhausting! I mean, I usually sit around a LOT. But my friend's seventh-floor walkup has meant I'm trying to just stay out all day. It is great, though.

We had thunder and lightning here a little while ago. Winter is totally drunk.

Oh, yeah. Around midnight or 1 a.m. last night, we had thunder so loud it rattled the windows hard enough that, for a moment, I actually worried they would break. The cat beds are in front of a window, and Slinky jumped up in her bed and glared at the window. Kato was freaked out and would not settle down; when I went to bed, he kept walking in the hall and whining outside the bedroom door, so we relented and let him sleep on the bedroom floor (which is not the M.O. around here).

Oh! Sorry.

S. bought Dubliner white cheddar on sale the other day, so I think I'm having a baked potato with cheese for lunch.