Lucky break after punishing finance class: couscous lunch!

I'm halfway through the first class in my second term: finance. It's really interesting, as it builds on the work we did in the last semester involving both accounting and introductory finance (concepts of working capital, cash flows, company valuation, and so on.) But the pace is mercurial and we're pushing, pushing ahead, even though, maybe half of the class is lost or falling behind. I'm one of the laggards myself but I'm reading the manual closely to prep myself for each class.

What a relief then to have a lunch of comfort food, of couscous and merguez sausages, which I came to love this summer. When I arrived at the cafeteria, close to 1 PM, they were running out of vegetables to serve on the couscous and were on the last of their merguez sausages! How lucky, then, to have had two sausages and a plateful of vegetables and couscous (it's a rice like dish made from durum, the material used to make spaghetti).

Fortunately, I don't have afternoon classes this semester, so I was able to take my time during lunch, then have a coffee from the vending machine (30 centimes for an espresso made from coffee beans, supposedly) and read the financial newspapers that arrive at EM Lyon each morning.

I left early to take a nap at home and will start studying again in a few minutes.

Truthfully, I"m planning to get to sleep early, for tomorrow's bargain sales. Soldes, the winter bargain sales, are arriving tomorrow. Starting at 8AM some of the larger department stores will open for business. The OL (Olympique Lyonnais) store is also discounting overstocked merchandise, and I hope to find a nice T-shirt or scarf there for half of the usual price.

Will post the results in next blog entry! 30% off? 50% off? Shoppers' delight. (Oh, yes, no classes tomorrow, coincidentally. Sales do run until mid-February, but who knows what will be left then?)