"Etre belle et aimée, ce n'est être que femme.
      Etre laide et savoir se faire aimer, c'est être princesse."
          J. Barbey d'Aurevilly

Roughly:
     "To be beautiful and loved, it's only being (a) woman.
      To  be ugly and know how to be loved, it's being (a) princess."
          From the awesome Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

(Sodary-chan, ( Read more... )

Humpf... 5h00 du matin et je ne dors toujours pas : dès que je ferme les yeux, je vois des bento... Je n'ai pourtant pas faim ! Juste envie de modeler des roses avec du saumon fumé, des papillons avec du fishcake, des omelettes bicolores, des abeilles à partir d'oeufs de caille, des cochons avec du riz... Et ça fait 6h00 que ça dure ! ( Read more... )

... that I would be so happy to spend this holiday (Happy Bastille Day to everyone btw) sleeping on and off, windows opened, listening to the thunder (I never knew thunder could lull someone to sleep...) and enjoying fresh (and wet) air.

Surviving the summer without any vacation has become possible again!

Edit: the spoiled brat is back: I wish I didn ( Read more... )

Lazing on the bed with "the one for you" on a Sunday afternoon, enjoying the cool air produced by a brand new AC mobile unit (???) while watching the sacro saint Tour de France dreaming open-eyed?
I love being in love... !

3:30 a.m. and I can't sleep: the temperature in my room is 32°C (about 90°F if my brain hasn't totally fried). Of course there is absolutely no air (and I left my fan in the bedroom of Beast's son, hoping it will help him sleep a little better).

Anyway, I might seriously consider an escapade impromptue in the Alpes next week... In the meantime, I'm ( Read more... )

Tonight will be my last night being 30. Tomorrow, when I’ll wake up, I’ll be in my thirty-second year… What used to be a non-event for years (non-event as “please spare me and forget I’m getting older today’) has become the most expected day of the year for me. Not for the social implications (I still feel like I “disturb” my relatives…), but for ( Read more... )

(*aka « the DV guy portrayed by Nishikido in Last Friends »).2010 has taken off in a big way for me. Sunday, as I was coming back home after a pleasant afternoon gathering, I got stuck between a subway door and two guys who decided that fighting in a crowded place was a fun activity to pass time (you know how “kids” tend to get easily bored in ( Read more... )

I hope 2010 will see your fondest wishes come true!

2009 has finally ended. As expected last year, it hasn’t been that great for me. But I’m quite pleased with how some aspects of my life finally turned out (no, no details: the Internet isn’t private enough to develop this!). I will put all my efforts in 2010 to keep this “good job” on then !

A last ( Read more... )

Paris under the snow is great. Paris under the snow and a transportation strike is not (blame the slippery walksides for my bad mood).

Cet après-midi, alors que je tentais de franchir un nouveau pallier de la traditionnelle « La course aux cadeaux », j’ai eu le plaisir de constater que l’habituelle foire consumériste (à laquelle je contribue tous les ans, notez bien !) qu’est devenu l’anniversaire du p’tit Jésus a marqué une pause. Certains verront là un effet de la Crise (oui, j’ ( Read more... )