where i've been since mid-March

another general update on me:

1) we got a sweet and surprise visit ("check-up") by the French police a la Green Card in our apartment a few weekends ago. they wanted to see if i was really "me" and that i really "lived" with the boy. my resident permit is being renewed as we speak (where is it??) and since we moved departments as of last year, they wanted to "meet" me and see if my personal effects were actually at the apartment. lucky for them, we were dressed and the apt was clean....and that both of us were there (the boy works weekends a lot) on a saturday afternoon. this was the first time that anybody had ever heard of the French police making house calls....now if they can only hustle a bit and send me my new card!!!

2) on the same day, the boy and i took his very French parents out for sushi for their very first time. lets just say that it was an adventure...with his mom for the most part...especially with chopsticks.

3) work work work....quarter-end! wahooo!

4) and to the best of my ability, i've been mourning and feeling the pain for one of my oldest gal pals (who is allll the waayyy back in the U.S.) who has recently gone through several weeks of emotional and painful hell. for a while, i didn't really know what to do or say and nothing right came out of my mouth...i hope you forgive me! mainly i was in an utter state of disbelief and slight shock of how everything just tumbled down.....but as always, she is rising up like a champ. she's going to be alright...i know it!

5) aaannnd.....we booked our tickets...we'll be back in the US in May for my high school reunion and to see my little sis graduate from medical school! yesiree...she's gonna be a real bona fide doc with her own DEA number and she'll be able to write prescriptions in about 6 months. i dont know about you, but i'm floored! she starts her surgical residency (yes she wants to open people up!) at one of the best surgery programs in NYC in July.....(another person who is moving to NYC)...