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The extreme right party got 20% of the votes in France yesterday.

I checked the results in my village. They are pretty much the same as for the rest of the country.

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20%!!!

FUCK!!!!

I'm so glad I'm moving out of this country in two months. This country makes me sick.

The time in England was such a great time, but the turmoil of everyday life took upon me again very quickly. Last Sunday was a very bad day at work, with lots of violence. I had to free one colleague who was under attack and somehow, it affected me more than the other times. I used to think that violence is worse when you’re the victim. But I can’t ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my desk with my second coffee, still drained from last night. I'm so tired of having nightmares all the time. The ones whose setting in the house I'm currently in are the worst ones. Like last night. Due to an electricity problem, fire was starting everywhere in the house. I had to run to stop it from spreading. Things were melting. ( Read more... )

I saw the surgeon today (which was no mean feat, since the roads were so icy, and the rural hospital is just in the middle of nowhere). He didn’t leave me any choice. I’ll have an operation on Friday morning, under general anaesthetic. It freaks me out. I asked if we could do it later on, but he replied that it would only grow bigger and start ( Read more... )

So, everyone in France close enough to a TV-set has recently learned that the wave of cold that is beating Europe right now has a name. The meteorologists call it the "Moscow-Paris" because it's the general line it's taking. Looking at the maps, though, it looks more like an "Ulan Bator-Paris", this time!


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