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the weird files...
so, i am officially taking a break from writing my dissertation which somehow makes me feel like i should be doing something more than just watching tv for hours which is what i am really doing, and relishing.
i'm in l.a., which means i have access to tv; and i'm house/dog-sitting, which means i need have no shame about how many hours (3 so far) i ( Read more... ) -
trees that look edible
okay, i haven't posted in many months and a lot has changed. but what hasn't changed is that paris is so lovely that it looks edible. i noticed this in particular in the 10th along the canals---the light was spraying up into the trees with their millions of un-fallen fall leaves (it's only october, after all), and the effect was to create a sense ( Read more... ) -
union membership
i went with kocici to a journalism union meeting tonight. that was interesting! i am, as ko pointed out several times, avowedly bougie (bourgeois; middle class; not naturally a member of the worker's party; more likely to be management than proletariat; etc....). and she is absolutely right----i have always owned a tennis racket and a wind ( Read more... ) -
zoo life
i got an annual pass to the jardin des plantes in paris which includes the natural history museum, a gemology museum, random stuff, and the menagerie----the zoo. i love the zoo. the menagerie is the oldest zoo in the world---1797 or something like that. c.f.: french revolution. they took the animals that had been in marie antoinette's versailles ( Read more... ) -
filling the ipod-shaped void; and other mundane topics
and, suddenly, hit by a giant wave of american consumerism, all i want in life is an 80gig ipod with "alicemoth" engraved on the back. will this help me, in any real way, to fulfill my dreams and desires? well, yes----there will always be music. i miss having music around all the time since my ancient ipod finally died a few months ago. i miss ( Read more... ) -
christ almighty
after a whole lot of sunshine for a month; rain and cloudiness is spreading itself around paris and, well, what can you do but enjoy it for what it is---an interval before the next sunny period. that, anyways, is my current philosophy ( Read more... )
