why is it snowing.

My internet has decided to act up again, which means my only computer entertainment is word and I can’t access my online readings (and Desperate housewives…damn addictions). The Internet at my new place is very fickle. At the moment the sound of Norwegian laughter over Skype is taunting me, as Rag seems to be connected while I am not. Today the temperature also managed to drop around 5 degrees with no warning at all. Yesterday I was skipping around with an open jacket; today I was plodding to the bank with frozen feet. I had 3 classes today, and in my daydreaming and window gazing in the first one I noticed the air was filled with big floating snowflakes, for the second class it was fast hard rain hail and for the last class there was a glimpse of sun. It’s hard to concentrate on your lecturer when there is a more fascinating new meteorological phenomenon going on every hour. The weather, like the Internet, seems to have become fickle.

Despite odd weather patterns, life in Paris is good, in a comfy-worn-in flannel-pj’s with-red-wine-and-fresh-baguette-and-a-good-movie kind of good. This is different from the new-sights-new-sounds-new-people kind of good, but is equally pleasing in a different way. I have been doing a lot of hermit-ing with Rag this week in preparation for the hurricane of social events and traveling that is soon to hit.

Arriving on Sunday, there will be four kids from UBC coming to stay in our little flat, which will bring lots of noise and excitement. A week after that I am off to eastern/central Europe for a quick 10 day tour, the following weekend I am going to see a favorite band in Lyon and after that I’m going to see a Yeasayer, which is described by a friend as “hippie/indie”.
In other news I have officially mastered the Laundromat! (Yes, the terribly exciting life I lead in Paris).

My old apartment had its own little washer so I never had to venture out with my laundry and a fistful of change. Yesterday I learned that apparently Laundromats are social hotspots, as one rather persistent Frenchman decided to be a Good Samaritan and help me with my laundry. Emphasis on persistent.

Last bit – classes are really good semester. Definite highlight is my climate politics class, and I actually managed to switch courses midterm to bump myself up a level in French.
But really….WHY IS IT SNOWING IN PARIS !?