Officially the Weekend...

Had my meeting with the chef de service today. Good news: none of this turning in the docs 2 months before the wedding date nonsense (though he did say they prefer the stuff to be turned in as soon as possible). The only probs now...
-Jess DOES need to be present for the publication de bans, which must be posted no less than 10 days before the marriage. He was planning to be here for a week. Hmm...
-All witnesses must speak French. Damn. Sorry, Steve and Kristina.
-We cannot simply ask a bilingual friend to be Jess' interpretor during the ceremony; has to be an official translator. So we have to shell out money for a total stranger to do something that several of my friends could and would do for free.
But still, the chef de service was very nice, and seems willing to work with me on this. Yay.

My hours changed, which means I have no more 9AM classes with shitty terminales grudgingly regurgitating texts to me (yay!). But it also means no more free Wednesdays (boo). Although my Wed class is with my responsable, and I'm sure if I wanted to take a day off he would let me. I now don't have any classes before 10, so I can't complain.

Brad is coming to France! For work of course, but he wants to plan a side-trip to A'dam and insists I go with him. I can't afford it, says I. Brad says he will pay. I feel bad-- my boyfriends are always paying my way, how is a girl ever gonna learn to live within her means when she keeps getting spoiled like this?! But Jess pointed out that my refusing to go is going to be a bummer for him, so to accept his offer. OK, twist my arm.

Brad is planning to leave the same day Chris arrives. Plus, Jess may be in London the first week of March. A) lots of visitors. B) lots of visitors coming while I'm not gonna be on vacation. I'm hoping Jess can pop over to Troyes for a few days.

Speaking of vacation plans, Mere and I are booked for Barcelona and Porto during the Feb vacances. We need to book our hostels still but flights are settled. Woo hoo!

I'm starting to stress over all the stuff I need to do before I leave France: terminate my lease, close my bank account, etc. Bah.

And did I mention Jess signed me/us up on the Smart car wait list?! :D