Some social commentary and my inner-gangsta makes a cameo

So, this has nothing to do with my study abroad experience whatsoever, but I was perusing YouTube vids and found this little slice of wonderful, which I like to call, How I Will Meet the Man of My Dreams:



Actually, that brings me to a sort of social commentary on the study abroad experience that some friends and I were talking about today. Especially with the advent of the internet, and the ease of access to it. Pretty much everyone in my program has a computer and access to the web, and SO many people I know hang out at home watching pirated american TV shows. Including myself...which is sad because I kind of pride myself on the fact that I don't watch that much TV, but I'm kind of over the feeling of self-loathing for it already, especially because I think I've limited myself to halfway decent programs. I mean, I'm not sitting around watching reality TV or anything. But enough of me trying to justify myself. Basically, I just find it interesting that, as Katie said earlier, "so much of the study abroad experience is watching american shows." Or something like that, I'm paraphrasing. But we actually sat by the fountain at Place des Terreaux eating our sandwiches and discussing the dramatic intricacies of Weeds and The L Word. And while walking around the artisan's market, we were discussing our favorite episodes of Psych. Ugh.

Of course, it doesn't help that I spent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday miserably sick and even Wednesday and Thursday all I wanted to do when I wasn't in class was lay in bed feeling miserable. So, I watched TV. Because that's what sick people do. On the bright side, I'm feeling a lot better, although still kinda stuffy. And tired a lot. Although that may or may not have something to do with the fact that the weather makes me want to stay in bed and just look out the window. Really, every morning I look outside and think, YAY! The sun is shining! Today will be pretty. And then I go outside and the wind is blowing a billion miles an hour (broke Wei-Ching's umbrella and tried to steal my hat) and it's freezing. It would make anyone want to curl up inside and wait for summer.

Other than that, thing's haven't been all that eventful lately. Mostly school and hangin with the homies. You know how I be.

Ok, I need to go. My episode of The L Word has finished loading and is calling my name.

Biz.