god dammit leroy

well, bad news. the power adapter for my computer broke and i'm at the moment computer less. it's also super frustrating to type on this french keyboard i'm using because qll of the letters qre fucking out of the right plqce: m, a, q, z, w, and basically all of the punctuation are in different places and it is a nightmare, example; the auick brozn fox ju,ped over the lqwy brozn dog: this zill mqke blogging very difficult: also; its a huge hassel to replace my pozer cord because dell is only online and if i order it i zill hqve to do customs again: so my plan is to send it dirrectly to another exchage students house whose parents are coming in two weeks and have them bring it to me: in the meantime, hozever, i will be crippled without my computer with finals coming up and intership applications: dell is pretty garbage because now both my battery and adapter don't work: for the last few months i had a land locked lap top that had to constantly be plugged in: also; i don't think i will be able to skype tomorrow because i have no computer: other than that everything is going great: this weekend we have a soccer tournament which happens to be called The Taylor Cup: i'm totally serious btw; it's la Copa Taylor: we have one game today and three tomorrow and if we advance the semis and finals on sunday: i went to a tango lesson last night and normally i would describe it in an entertaining manner but under the current situation that is a lot to ask of me and my french keyboard: really relieved obama won; i had nightmares about sarah palin becoming president and i really hope that now the election is over she will go back into whatever hole she came out of never to be seen again: weather's really hot; chau:

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