Things I'll Miss About Paris

Obviously I'm procrastinating in my studying for finals.  So here's a list of things that I'm really going to miss about France once I get back home.

• Not needing to straighten my hair (in Paris most women don't straighten or curl their hair everyday.  They brush it, mousse it, pin it up, clip pieces back, braid it, etc. but they almost never use heat products to contort it into an unnatural style.  I'm not looking forward to having to straighten my hair again every day in order to look nice and put together)
• Perfect weather (it's in the mid 70s here.  It's in the 100s at home.  Enough said.)
• Being of legal drinking age
• Fresh bread every day
• Pastries (donuts and coffee cake will no longer count as pastries for me.  I've been spoiled by the piles of pain au chocolat, tartes, macarons, and chaussons aux pommes on every corner here)
• Gelato (I might suffer withdrawal when I'm forced to stop eating it every day)
• Orangina
• Foreigners (not the French, it's the other foreigners I love meeting.  Like the waiter at a restaurant last week who was from Algeria and here studying electrical engineering.  And the guys from Scotland who'd heard of my last name before.  And the very cute Australian math teachers.  It's just so interesting to meet people from other countries on a regular basis.  Even if it usually is in a bar)
• The shopping.  The variety.  The clothes.  The sales.  Soooo wonderful here.
• The service in restaurants.  (They don't harass you here.  You need to flag your waiter down if you want something.  And the only time they'll indicate that they want you to leave is when they're closing for the night.  It's so nice not to be rushed or bothered)