Hi! I realize that I left my blog mid-post last week and haven't gotten around to completing it. The jist was that I am thinking about quitting gymnastics forever. It just isn't very fun anymore, and I am afraid that if I keep going just to maintain my skill level, I'll eventually injure myself. My solution is to go one last time and make a video of me doing all of my best tricks. Then, I'll never have to do them again. If someone wants to see me flip, I'll just press play! No warming up required! This really would have come in handy at my graduation party last weekend when my dad goated people into wanting to see me flip. I showed a crappy video of my old dance recital that had me doing some stuff, but it was hard to watch knowing that I am MUCH better now than at 14.

Somehow, after we studied abroad together in Paris, I left never wanting to live abroad again while my friend Kara left never wanting to live in the US again. She has since lived in Bangladesh, England, South Africa, and maybe a couple other places. Now she is working for malnourished children in Haiti, and she has a BLOG. I recommend it if you are into world travel. She writes in great detail of all aspects of third world life...some funny and some not. Do you remember a bestselling chick-lit novel a few years ago about a working mother called "I Don't Know How She Does It?" Well, if that was about Kara feeding children in Haiti, it would be called "I Have No Fucking Clue How She Can Possibly Do All the Fuck That She Does In Such a Fucking Difficult Place." Hopefully by the time I can afford exotic, international trips, Kara will be working in a more Charlie-friendly place like Barbados or Bali because I really miss her.

Brian and I saw a French movie called "The Valet" yesterday. It is by the people who made "The Closet" (Le Placard) which I OWN and LOVE. "The Valet" was really good, too. You'd assume that the title in French would be "Le Valet," but it's not. You see, valet doesn't mean car parker in French. That word is voiturier. So then you'd assume that the movie would be called "Le Voiturier," but doing so would make an ass of u and me because that's not right either. The French title is "La Doublure" which means the stand-in. Weird, huh? It really is about a valet, though. You see, this billionaire is dating a supermodel, and they are photographed together as the valet is walking by them. The billionaire's wife sees the photo in a tabloid, and he tells her that he doesn't know the supermodel and that she is with the valet. So then, he pays the valet to live with the supermodel for a month so that the snooping wife will believe the story. I highly recommend, as it is one of the rare French films that is actually enjoyable to watch and doesn't leave you confused or unsatisfied.

TTFN!