After today I'll be able to take a deep breath, relax a minute, and dig in to some French lessons. I have disappeared in order to madly get everything together to apply for a Fulbright. This involves 8 letters from various people, including 2 institutions in France, UCLA professors, language teachers, transcripts....and the idea that they may not reach me in time and all of my planning would be for naught, was stressful. It's not quite said and done, but I send my portion off tomorrow with 5 of the letters and my proposal, and the rest of the letters will hopefully arrive on their own at UCLA. Right? Of course, right.

Meanwhile, the whole Chuang family is asleep at 7:47 am -- oh I jinxed myself, there's the baby now. Gotta go!