I only have time for a short post, so here's a little quiz for you. Choose the right answer:
(A) It's totally plausible that on Bastille Day in 1993, the author of this blog, finding herself in France, got drunk with a couple of other Americans (male graduate students) and went down to the festival by the river to stumble around singing "La Marseillaise" as loudly as possible, because she knows all the words, while French people glared at her and her gym shoes and her T-shirt from an American rock concert. Then she got some killer ice cream.
(B) No, no, the Bearing I know would never do such a thing.