Homework takes over my life

Catherine and Lionel left today for their trip to the West Coast of the US, but it's cool, I've got my homework to keep me company. It was actually really cute how excited they were to go... Catherine told me this is their first vacation in four years, and the last one was just a weekend with the girls, I think. I worked all day yesterday from about 4:30 to midnight on my homework because one of my notebooks got all screwed up and the pages don't turn anymore, so I bought a new notebook and had to recopy all my notes. Then I tried to figure out what I have to do for next week, and my literature and history professors are really piling it on. I've got 100 pages of a novel (a relatively boring one, mind you) plus questions to answer for literature, and then I've got to track down those stinking history books and then read 50 pages of one and I don't know how much of the others (since, obviously, I don't have them). But I finished recopying everything and started in on the novel, so that's good. I don't have any class on Fridays so I'm planning to get some more done, since I'm planning a trip to Rome (not until November though) with several other girls, so I want to be ahead in general in case I want to do any kind of traveling over the weekends.

I'm sorry to say I don't really have any updates... school keeps me very busy Monday-Thursday. However, tomorrow is "la nuit blanche," which means "white night." I think it's only once a year, and it's basically one whole day and night in Paris where everything is open: museums, buildings, city hall, etc. and it's all free! The obvious downside is that there will be HUGE crowds since this is only once a year. I want to try and go out and see whatever I can see, though. Also, my friends Rachel and Shelly have a host brother who is in a choir or something here and he invited them to come to his concert (tomorrow, I think), and Shelly is in Munich so Rachel asked if I wanted to come instead, so hopefully we'll do that.