winter's here

Finally it's cold enough to wear my winter things. I sort of miss the definite seasons of Paris. Yesterday I got to wear my favorite black long coat with its bright orange lining. Today I wore my black short pea coat and a beanie with a black skirt, shirt and khaki sweater over the shirt. I love wearing layers. Wore black tights under the skirt.

Had my second to last class before my break today. Short format screenwriting. It was a lot of fun. I have a good time in that class, despite that day I had the script read-through. There are a lot of good, funny people in it. It's really nice when people pick me for read-throughs. It's a real confidence booster. I was asked to be a main character twice and a supporting character several times. I get really into it, and it's kind of fun.

On the way back to the bus, I saw a sign for the library booksale room. I've never been there before, and I thought I might take a look. It's this small tiny room with no windows filled to the ceiling with books. I immediately knew where it was because I saw those books carts stocked with books in front of the door. Inside was an old lady with white hair wearing glasses and eating tabouli out of tupperware. She was reading as well.

I looked through the film section, the fiction section, the biographies, and finally the children's section. I've been into children's literature for a while. I bought 3 old hardbacks with beautiful covers at $2 and a paperback at $1. The hardbacks were these:

1. Willa Cather's On Writing
2. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
3. Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.

The last two have great illustrations. And Treasure Island was owned by someone in Maine--his address stamp was in it. The paperback was Morte D'Artur. I made small talk with the lady. She was so pleased with what I found, as if I discovered some buried treasure or something. "Wow, these are great!" she said.

So I started packing already even though I'm not leaving for like 2 days, but I wanted to get a head start. I'm also bringing home my bike since I don't use it much up here, and it's getting rusty living out on the balcony. Will be taking home some books to read as well as homework. Can't wait for the drive home!!!