Didn't really go outside, but got lost twice

Today, Sunday, I had an incredible goal to go to the huge Sunday market down my street and buy some potatoes.

On the way there, though, I realized that I should get some cash before I went to the market because no self-respecting market person will take American Express.

I, like a fool, assumed that there would be many ATMs nearby.  There was one.  A huge line of probably like 15 people were waiting to use this single ATM that was for a specific bank and thus would probably charge me.  I knew I was nearby to Victoire, and my favorite ATM is there, so I figured I'd just cut through the marketplace and look on the other side.

This of course took me to the benches that we had eaten oysters at last Sunday, and I knew that was wrong, but I wasn't certain how to get from Cours d'Alger to Victoire.  So I walked farther up thinking that maybe there would be an ATM in Capucins.  There was not.

From there, I took an alternate path back to the Market and crossed back through.  Looking down the streets parallel to the market like a normal person would have originally, I found that Victoire was literally right down the street to my right.

So I walked all the way down the street to Victoire to go to the ATM.  At this point, though, I don't really want to walk back to the market because I'm tired of walking and I decide just to head down Argonne to go home, because that street is the closest to the ATM and I know how to get home from there.

As I was walking, though, I realized that Argonne is not the most effective way to get home, since I have to go all the way down to the Bergonie stop and then go east for a bit before heading further south down Somme.

I thought, hey, let's take a shortcut and go east from where I am right now.  So I found Rue des Sabliers, which I recognized as a streetname (I'd figure out why later after being a fool) and I assumed that meant that it was a street that crossed Cours de la Somme.

I followed Sabliers down for quite a ways and then recognized another street name "Georges Rioux".  This also looked familiar, and I assumed it must be a street that I cross usually to get to Somme, because I was crossing it right now.  I was like man, I am good.

I keep walking on Sabliers and then I see a big glass building that I have never ever seen before.  I'm like this is cool I'ma just keep walking toward it.  When I get to the big building (which turns out to be a student residence) I turn right to go what I'm thinking is south.

I walk and walk and walk on this street and at this point I realize that this route is 100% longer than just going down to Bergonie.  When this street runs out, I see the tram tracks.  The tram tracks run down Argonne, and I have ended up about 500 feet past the Bergonie tram stop.

At some point, Rue des Sabliers turned to go south, and I never noticed.  So then when I turned right, I just ended up heading back west again.

So I walk up to the tram stop and just take the normal streets I use to go home.  I have never looked at the names of these streets, because it's residential, and even though it's pretty much a straight path, it changes names a bajillion times.

As I'm waiting for a bicyclist to pass, I look up and see that I am at the intersection of Rue des Sabliers and Georges Rioux.  Again.

Except this time, I'm walking on Georges Rioux, and if I look to my right, I can see the big glass building.

So I was literally there probably 30 minutes beforehand, with no idea that I could have been home in less than 10 minutes if I had turned.

When I got back to the residence hall, I walked a little further down the street to a Laverie, because I thought maybe I could just do my laundry there.  Unfortunately, it is a great deal more expensive.  Washing is 4 euros by itself, and drying is 0.50 for every 5 minutes.

I voted to stay home the rest of the day.  Though I did go out and buy some chips, because the grocery store down the street is open 4-8 on Sundays.

I cleaned my apartment, and I would like to inform you that my toilet cleaner smells really gross.  When I was buying all these products, I looked at the pictures on the label to make sure that I actually knew the words for what I wanted.  I'm pretty sure "javal" means bleach, but I wasn't certain and I couldn't tell from the picture, so I didn't buy anything with it.  But then, I saw it again inside of the washing machine as like a place to put a liquid so I'm deciding that that's what it means.

Because I mean, what product do you use to clean your bathroom that you also put in a washing machine?

Other than that, I mostly just thought about my mosquito bites.  Mosquitoes only show up once every week, so I wasn't prepared to shut my window (since there's no screen) when one came along, and I'm pretty sure it's living in my room.  I have a bite right on the back of my ankle, which has never happened before.  Three other ones on that same leg, one one the other thigh, and one on my left forearm.  It's a vicious little devil, but I'm hoping it died from the stench of my toilet cleaner.