~o0o first post~

Welcome to La Vie en Prose. Yes, it's corny as hell. Do I care? Only in a mildly self-conscious way; like not in a big enough way that I would forego naming my blog such, but in the kinda way where I might look back at this in like three months and hate myself for it. So here's the deal: I like to write but have convinced myself for the past few years that my writing should be kept clandestine in nondescript but ~super artsy~ black moleskine notebooks. This. Ends. Now.

The new year means new beginnings and my new beginnings include the following: a new city, new language, new university and new friends(?) So while this introductory look into my study abroad blog couldn't get anymore cliché and before I go vom at my own sad attempts to be witty, let me welcome you to my very own web address in which I will avoid doing my french homework by documenting my wanderings and new surroundings in France, as well as present some prose writings that I hope to work on while abroad. Read on, comment if the spirit moves you, and peep my instagram. (I will obnoxiously geotag everything and take way too many pictures of food like the bougie bitch I am, and no, I'm not sorry bout it because #YOLO is still v. relevant in 2015.) I once had a short stint with tumblr when I was like fourteen and had side bangs, which by the way is too damn old for side bangs, but hopefully this study abrog will prosper and someone other than my mom will read this. In the mean time, enjoy this picture of my sister wearing a burberry bucket hat and me in some really cool matrix-esque sunglasses from 2001 below:

Note: I am six years old here and clutching onto a can of diet coke while giving some SERIOUS bitch face. 
Not much has changed. 

P.S. - my link is lavienproses.blogspot.com because some asshole from Portugal took lavieenprose.blogspot.com in 2006 and hasn't updated since. Blogspot is majorly lame and wouldn't let me add hyphens or periods, hence the slightly modified web address.