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So I got a job at the research facility at my school and my first day of work coincidently started the Monday after I got back. Exhausted by my nonstop traveling for the past week, I considered whether or not that if I hauled ass I would be able to catch the last train back to Rouen so I could finally get a good night’s rest in my own bed before starting work the next day (the alternative was getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to catch a train early enough to get me to work on time).

When I arrived at the airport to check in the lady handed me my boarding pass along with the news that my flight was delayed by one hour effectively dashing any hopes I had of making it back to Rouen that night.

My flight actually ended up departing two hours late and by the time I got into Paris it was midnight where an unhappy Alex (who also had to wake up early the next day) was waiting for me (good thing I bought him Austrian chocolates).

At 5:30am the next morning I woke my ass up to catch the 7am train back to Rouen. On the train ride back I wondered to myself if there was any chance I could pull off “forgetting” today was my first day of work (I seriously considered this).

I finally got back to my apartment at 9, dropped off my bags, changed clothes (sans shower), and proceeded to sit at my desk for the next 3 hrs trying to avoid interacting with anyone in my catatonic state (which is not easy given it was my first day and people wanted to know all about me – en francias bien sur). I’m pretty sure I got dubbed that unfriendly girl of questionable hygiene.

Finally it was lunch time and I went home and took an hour nap in lue of eating (not like I had anything to eat anyways since I cleared out my fridge before I left) and returned to work afterwards still exhausted but now also hungry.

It sucked but I made it through the day (with help from the fuck you penguin blog that people blatantly saw me reading but whatever) but still I couldn’t go home and pass out because I had to go to the damn grocery store to buy some damn food (I was tres grumpy at this point).
I finally got home at 7pm, got some food in me, and put myself to bed.

Sometimes this traveling bniz isn’t as great as it seems.