Only French Citizns May Access the Internet

This is a headline I have contemplated writing after a good 4 hours of pure frustration. Apparently, one is not allowed to have internet in their house without a carte de sejour (or long stay card), which can take a minimum of months up to a year to acquire. One might ask why? The answer is because all foreigners must be terrorists. So, I spent hours today going to all of the internet stores to check if this is true and it wasn't just some foreigner hating orange employee. And yes, it is true. So after days of doing research and making sure banking things get sorted out (which was kind of a comical disaster in itself as I deposited my money in the wrong slot and had to have them fish it out and you know how it is). And to further prevent non-internet home subscribers from connecting there are no coffee shops with hotspots or free wifi (or weefee as they call it). It is a conspiracy that I'm determined to get to the bottom of. Anyway, that is the bad news...the good news is that I can take the bus to the university and between 10 am and 5 pm I can use a computer in the language center. I started helping out here yesterday after I stumbled upon it and now (thanks to my angel, Carmela) I have a purpose in life again. It is quite nice. Tonight I have to stay late with the students, who are all professors, and watch groundhogs day as I'm the only teacher sans family. On another bright side, le rentree has occured! It is when everyone returns to work after vacation and it turns out the people of Dijon do not spend all year shopping like I originally thought. I have also been doing a significant amount of running in order to both prevent a breakdown from the days events or curb it before it becomes serious. I'm seeing a lot of the city that way. I should probably take care of business and decipher some bank statements and go teach. I'll try to write more regularly now that I have some internet access.

Ciao,
Sarah