Nearly finished second year, 3 more exams left then DONE. Packing up my room this Wednesday because Thursday will be busy with study, 2 final exams, then evening celebrations. Can’t pack Friday morning before my dad picks me up because I will need this time to recover from Thursday celebrations. Friday I just want everythign in bags ready to be carried down3 flights of stairs. I’m only on the second floor so it shouldn’t be too hard.  Then France on Saturday. Should be back after 2 and  a bit weeks. I’m excited to go, sort of. But the French lack everything… good department stores, good stores in general (it’s all supermarkets), they lack sincere manners, internet, amenities… I dunno. They eat bread for breakfast. Bread bread bread and coffee. I don’t mind bread-based foods for breakfast, but maybe once a week I want bacon. Not their only variation: cold ham. Ew.

And I haven’t been there in 2ish years, but I bet they still don’t have Subway. It’s all McDonalds for some reason and no other chain whatsoever.

Anyways, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, is coming out this summer. Actually very excited about this. I went to see Star Trek last week and a preview for it came on during the commercials and I got that child-at-christmas type excitement. I’d love to see it in an empty cinema theatre so there won’t be any 5 year olds around me – who didn’t even exist when most of the books were printed anyway and are too young to even read them now – leaning forward on their seats or worse – standing – and/or tapping their mothers and asking questions, or how badly they need to pee, or Jake spilt his drink, or what have you.

Sometimes it’s 1 adult to 8 kids… as in 1 adult has her/his own children with them, plus their children’s friends so the 1 adult is swamped with more children than they can really take care of. And when you get behind this anarchical flock  in the line for tickets/food, they have to take 8 orders, plus their own, plus 9 tickets. Then shepherd everyone into the theatre and struggles to find 9 consecutive seats all in one row, so the troop has to be divided into sub-flock groups of three, and they’re dispursed to all four corners of the theatre. It does happen.