get down, and shut up
i've lived in paris for over four years, yet i the monthly air raid siren (first wednesday of every month at noon) have totally evaded me. just a minute ago i was mildly panicked, that in fact, maybe there was going to be an air raid of some sort! by then google came to my rescue and i read that paris tests its sirens every month since wwII. ok then..
yesterday i went on a 7.2 mile run which felt very good. it took me about 1:20 min to do a loop from my apartment, porte de la villette, then to pere lachese and then back home. i'll definitely be doing it again but not today cause i'm feeling a tiny bit sore and tired cause i didn't sleep very well.
i gave y&r my documents for the visa application and now all i have to do is wait..about 8-10 weeks. longer than what i thought and puts me right around xmas vacation. so it looks like i might be able to spend the holidays at home afterall. i'd like some sort of confirmation however that i won't start until 2008, that way i can really know for sure. i mean, this is france, a country that values vacations so i don't see why this would be a problem if in fact the visa came in like a week or 2 earlier.
i'm excited to go home, again. this year i've been home quite a bit, two times with david even. i'm definitely going to miss him and probably be bored out of my mind, so i'm rethinking how soon i make it back. i was thinking of going for thanksgiving but i'm not sure. maybe i'll wait until december.
ok wtf, they're doing the air raids again..
i got accepted to inseec. i guess i should reply and still go on the interview to be safe? i don't know. i'll worry about that next week.
last week i won an awesome pair of pants on ebay for liek 75$ and the value is actually 10 times that. so it was a great deal. i'm very excited to get them.
i went over to lisa's the other night. she moved into an enormous apartment in the marais that is so fabulous it makes me want to me a mistress myself. no, she's not really a mistress but she does well for herself sleeping with the top echalon of french bourgois. we talked about a lot of shit and tried to weigh my options about living with david. basically we came to the conclusion that for financial reasons, i'd be very motivated to do so. the fact that david gets his rent subsidized by the fire dept. makes it such a great deal. plus, my 725 euros a month tiny apartment would be an extra expense. i could basically have that 725 to save and do what i want with instead of having like 100-200 a month for that. the downsides of course are living in the dreaded suburbs. and not just any suburb, it has to be the 95 because that's where he works. i like his apartment enough and the location (close to a major train station) is not bad. but...it's an apartment that he picked out with his ex and i honestly don't want to move into it. i'm reall abstinent about it too. working in boulogne is far either way so it's not a matter of that. then we thought of me finding an apartment in the 16th or something closer to boulogne and the suburbs. but i feel like making a move is a huge deal and i might as well do that with david. that's what we got in an argument about over the summer. there's definitely no rush because i haven't even started working yet and i'd like to be able to prove that i can keep my head above water on my own without having to be dependent on someone's rent deal. god, that's so french. this is why there are so many couples in paris and they move in together after like 2 dates. yes.
i really cannot stop criticizing the french in everything they do. but they just piss me off soo much. they're shitty music videos emulating american style and music is just a really poor attempt. their ridiculous attachment to security makes me think they are just a bunch whiners who can't do anything on their own and need a constant crutch of the government or else everyone will run into the streets and die of some disease. probably "la creve". thank god for sarkozy. finally a man that will bring france into the 21'st century where a pseudo-socialist country just doesn't work anymore. i really like his ideals and think he is a man of his work that will get shit done. but already france is up in arms over the fact that he's...active. yes. they think he is trying to do 'too much' or be everywhere...not good. his visit to chad to meet with the group of french who tried to save 10,000 sudanese chidlren..who weren't even sudanese..another ludicrous story that i care not to comment on at the moment, it will just make me angry at how naive they could be..anyway, his visit there was criticized. i think a president that gets up from behind his desk is a good thing. but leave it to the french to complain. and the fact that he's trying to revive french-american relations is unheard of. i just love it! haha. i'm hoping i get out of france early enough to avoid the numerous strikes that are bound to happen with the new laws that are going to be proposed. ayaya.
and another thing, i'm sick and tired of my building having zero security. it's been over 1 month since the door has not worked, meaning anyone can enter without even using the code. not that the code is useful because it hasn't changed in over 4 years so every tom, dick and harry in the neighborhood, and his brother, who happens to be a racaille probably, knows it. yeah. and if you talk to someone here about it they will probably twitch and speak to you in a foreign tongue because everyone, and i mean everyone, is fucking weird. grrrrrrr.
so the weather is going to be shitty for the next...999 days. that's paris! no but it's going to be crappy until sunday. superrrr. australia seems nice.. although lisa told me about those folks and how basically if you don't drink it's tough to make friends cause aussies can reallllly handle their liquor. and when they can't, it's all the more fun. a lot are hicks outside the large cities, but isn't that the sam everywhere? i guess i'd have to see for myself but i hadn't thought about the anglo-saxon drinking culture as being an issue, but i guess it is. boo.
well i'm going to write a letter to my landlord because i want her to do something about the door.
yesterday i went on a 7.2 mile run which felt very good. it took me about 1:20 min to do a loop from my apartment, porte de la villette, then to pere lachese and then back home. i'll definitely be doing it again but not today cause i'm feeling a tiny bit sore and tired cause i didn't sleep very well.
i gave y&r my documents for the visa application and now all i have to do is wait..about 8-10 weeks. longer than what i thought and puts me right around xmas vacation. so it looks like i might be able to spend the holidays at home afterall. i'd like some sort of confirmation however that i won't start until 2008, that way i can really know for sure. i mean, this is france, a country that values vacations so i don't see why this would be a problem if in fact the visa came in like a week or 2 earlier.
i'm excited to go home, again. this year i've been home quite a bit, two times with david even. i'm definitely going to miss him and probably be bored out of my mind, so i'm rethinking how soon i make it back. i was thinking of going for thanksgiving but i'm not sure. maybe i'll wait until december.
ok wtf, they're doing the air raids again..
i got accepted to inseec. i guess i should reply and still go on the interview to be safe? i don't know. i'll worry about that next week.
last week i won an awesome pair of pants on ebay for liek 75$ and the value is actually 10 times that. so it was a great deal. i'm very excited to get them.
i went over to lisa's the other night. she moved into an enormous apartment in the marais that is so fabulous it makes me want to me a mistress myself. no, she's not really a mistress but she does well for herself sleeping with the top echalon of french bourgois. we talked about a lot of shit and tried to weigh my options about living with david. basically we came to the conclusion that for financial reasons, i'd be very motivated to do so. the fact that david gets his rent subsidized by the fire dept. makes it such a great deal. plus, my 725 euros a month tiny apartment would be an extra expense. i could basically have that 725 to save and do what i want with instead of having like 100-200 a month for that. the downsides of course are living in the dreaded suburbs. and not just any suburb, it has to be the 95 because that's where he works. i like his apartment enough and the location (close to a major train station) is not bad. but...it's an apartment that he picked out with his ex and i honestly don't want to move into it. i'm reall abstinent about it too. working in boulogne is far either way so it's not a matter of that. then we thought of me finding an apartment in the 16th or something closer to boulogne and the suburbs. but i feel like making a move is a huge deal and i might as well do that with david. that's what we got in an argument about over the summer. there's definitely no rush because i haven't even started working yet and i'd like to be able to prove that i can keep my head above water on my own without having to be dependent on someone's rent deal. god, that's so french. this is why there are so many couples in paris and they move in together after like 2 dates. yes.
i really cannot stop criticizing the french in everything they do. but they just piss me off soo much. they're shitty music videos emulating american style and music is just a really poor attempt. their ridiculous attachment to security makes me think they are just a bunch whiners who can't do anything on their own and need a constant crutch of the government or else everyone will run into the streets and die of some disease. probably "la creve". thank god for sarkozy. finally a man that will bring france into the 21'st century where a pseudo-socialist country just doesn't work anymore. i really like his ideals and think he is a man of his work that will get shit done. but already france is up in arms over the fact that he's...active. yes. they think he is trying to do 'too much' or be everywhere...not good. his visit to chad to meet with the group of french who tried to save 10,000 sudanese chidlren..who weren't even sudanese..another ludicrous story that i care not to comment on at the moment, it will just make me angry at how naive they could be..anyway, his visit there was criticized. i think a president that gets up from behind his desk is a good thing. but leave it to the french to complain. and the fact that he's trying to revive french-american relations is unheard of. i just love it! haha. i'm hoping i get out of france early enough to avoid the numerous strikes that are bound to happen with the new laws that are going to be proposed. ayaya.
and another thing, i'm sick and tired of my building having zero security. it's been over 1 month since the door has not worked, meaning anyone can enter without even using the code. not that the code is useful because it hasn't changed in over 4 years so every tom, dick and harry in the neighborhood, and his brother, who happens to be a racaille probably, knows it. yeah. and if you talk to someone here about it they will probably twitch and speak to you in a foreign tongue because everyone, and i mean everyone, is fucking weird. grrrrrrr.
so the weather is going to be shitty for the next...999 days. that's paris! no but it's going to be crappy until sunday. superrrr. australia seems nice.. although lisa told me about those folks and how basically if you don't drink it's tough to make friends cause aussies can reallllly handle their liquor. and when they can't, it's all the more fun. a lot are hicks outside the large cities, but isn't that the sam everywhere? i guess i'd have to see for myself but i hadn't thought about the anglo-saxon drinking culture as being an issue, but i guess it is. boo.
well i'm going to write a letter to my landlord because i want her to do something about the door.