I had a weird thing happen to me the other day–I forgot the days of the week in French. Actually, I remembered six of them but could not remember Thursday (Jeudi) and I refused to look it up. I spent all day trying to remember and then asked Allen when he got home. This lapse is truly disturbing as I knew the days of the week in French before I could read. And then I tried to count to 100 in French and all bets were off when I got stumped at the word for fifty.

Is this some kind of use it or lose it memory thing?

Am I getting… OLD?

In other French news, what the FUCK is going on in Paris–Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs:

Rioting youths opened fire on police and set dozens of vehicles ablaze in a seventh night of violence in Paris.

Scary. Sounds like something that would happen in the US and for similar reasons:

France’s government is facing mounting criticism of its handling of the riots, which began after two teenagers of African origin died one week ago.

The boys, aged 15 and 17, were electrocuted at an electricity sub-station. Local people say they were fleeing police, which authorities deny.

Horrible! Those poor young men.