written from a computer lab...

Hey there, everyone. The sole point of this message is to relay the information that my computer has effectively died. Specifically, it's the hard drive that's jacked up. Whatever the problem is exactly, my computer is entirely unoperable. I don't know if I'm going to buy a new hard drive or buy a new computer, or maybe just go without a computer until sometime after I get back to the states. Having gone even a couple days now without a computer has shown me how terribly dependent I am (or was, more like) on my computer. To that end, thank God it broke!

The downside is that I'll have less access to this blog and to all my friends and family in the states (or abroad). Skype will be especially difficult; I can maybe borrow a friend's computer from time to time, but I don't want to abuse my friends' generosity.

I'll keep you updated on the situation, but for now I'll just have to learn how to type on these funky French keyboards. I'm getting better already, but it certainly slows me down. So try to understand if I put a "q" instead of an "a," or a comma instead of an "m," or a "ç" instead of a "9." (Those are just a few differences between the keyboards.)

And by the way, other than that, things are going great. I finished and turned in that text explication that I talked about in my last post, and I feel pretty good but not great about it. Next week I have a real doozie (doozy? doozee? Is what I'm trying to say even a word?), a 12-pager on the poet's journey inward as represented in Philippe Jaccottet's A la lumière d'hiver. Good stuff. It's refreshing to finally do some work :)

A bientôt, mes amis!