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07/12/86 Samedi (Saturday) Fromage blanc is not cottage cheese

I finally got up the nerve to ask for cottage cheese.  Of course it has a different name in French.  I described it to Decide and he said to ask for fromage blanc.  Well I asked but I got sour cream not cottage cheese.  Now I've got a whole container of sour cream and no chips and I still don't know the name for cottage cheese!

Regular Saturday - we went to the market then I did History all day.  Took a walk around 2.  Pretty nice out.  Sunny and mild.  I guess the cold wave is over.  So is the great fun of Normandy.  I miss Armenda already.  She is so sweet!  Maybe we'll go back.  I sure would enjoy that - especially if it was beach weather!

It is so strange - I can't get used to eating dinner at 8 p.m.  I am always hungry around 5 or 6.

I feel very much like I am being held up in a bottle.  The "real me" could never spend all day doing history and not mind too much.  I could never sit around all day everyday (minus afternoons) and only watch tv, eat and read and do history.  It just isn't me.  I prefer the busy non-stop action life - I think I am safely settle and I might even enjoy this - but the person everybody at home knows isn't all here - cause if I was I'd go crazy!  There really isn't anyone my age.  I walked around and everyone is real old or little kids. Monday is the revolution day.  What will I do?

Another little hash party last night - this time at 2 a.. with three people.  My asthma had been giving me trouble to start with but after that - I was in pain all night and I still am.  I took medicine but so far it hasn't helped at all.  I think they were upset because I wouldn't come out and talk with them but I was wheezing so loud I could hardly breathe let alone talk.  I still get very dizzy when I stand up and I sound absolutely awful.

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