Currently, the countdown until I leave for Paris is 1 month and 14 days. Waiting is difficult because I am insanely bored. I can feel my brain losing its intelligent conformation and deteriorating into a huddled mass of inactivity. I'm ready to go to Paris but more importantly, I'm ready to go back to school. Other students are leaving, some are already gone but I have over a month to wait. I need to get back into the books, back into the house system, back into Hyde Park. Instead, I'm going to Paris, which means I have a longer wait, which is not a bad compromise for an extended European excursion. This should be amazing...