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two or three times over the last week i have opened up this page. opened up this "post an entry" page. i start writing something either fueled by boredom or by negative emotions. after a paragraph or so i realize that the words are uninteresting and meaningless and i close the window.
so lets try this again.
there are some fairly new interesting things going on, i have started my first real translation. it is for a friend, i probably won't be paid very much for it, but it is the first time that i'm really translating something. it seems to be good practice, i like doing it, and perhaps this will lead to real translation work in the future! the actual text is a report about the state of the archives at the Palais Benedicinte in Fécamp, the friend is a woman i gave a couple of private lessons to last year and then became friends with. she works as an art historian / archivist / professor, at various different places, and she's really cool.
another revolutionary addition to my life is my new herb garden. (i have wanted my own herb garden since i was, oh, fifteen?) séb and i bought two window boxes at castorama last week and i have filled one with the likes of parsley, cilantro/coriander, rosemary, and basil. (no, i did not start them from seed - i am way too impatient for that and bought ready-grown plants at monoprix :) we're probably going to put some flowers and a small tree in the other box, séb wants to try to plant a avocado pit and make a tree from it. we'll see what comes of that.
we are at the end of the second of three calm weekends that will be spent in paris. after next weekend, i will be going to: 1) lille and belgium with mariah, one of my bestest pals. 2) picardie, rural region north of paris, for a weekend-long bachelor/bachelorette party. 3)barcelona! with the love of my life <3 and 4)to lille for the wedding of the people we're having a party for in #2. should be alcoholic and fun.
heres to (still) trying to re-make lj more of a regular thing in my life.
so lets try this again.
there are some fairly new interesting things going on, i have started my first real translation. it is for a friend, i probably won't be paid very much for it, but it is the first time that i'm really translating something. it seems to be good practice, i like doing it, and perhaps this will lead to real translation work in the future! the actual text is a report about the state of the archives at the Palais Benedicinte in Fécamp, the friend is a woman i gave a couple of private lessons to last year and then became friends with. she works as an art historian / archivist / professor, at various different places, and she's really cool.
another revolutionary addition to my life is my new herb garden. (i have wanted my own herb garden since i was, oh, fifteen?) séb and i bought two window boxes at castorama last week and i have filled one with the likes of parsley, cilantro/coriander, rosemary, and basil. (no, i did not start them from seed - i am way too impatient for that and bought ready-grown plants at monoprix :) we're probably going to put some flowers and a small tree in the other box, séb wants to try to plant a avocado pit and make a tree from it. we'll see what comes of that.
we are at the end of the second of three calm weekends that will be spent in paris. after next weekend, i will be going to: 1) lille and belgium with mariah, one of my bestest pals. 2) picardie, rural region north of paris, for a weekend-long bachelor/bachelorette party. 3)barcelona! with the love of my life <3 and 4)to lille for the wedding of the people we're having a party for in #2. should be alcoholic and fun.
heres to (still) trying to re-make lj more of a regular thing in my life.