hi livejournal. how are you? it's been quite a while ( Read more... )

i really want it to be november 5th already. all week i have felt all of the post-traumatic stress from election day 2004 come rolling back, and not only is it stressing me out but it's also having this weird homesick effect on me ( Read more... )

my thoughts on a wednesday night at 11pm ( Read more... )

the city is slowly rolling back to its normal pace. the horse-drawn carriage that turns into a pumpkin in august is back in action. the 5-speed bicycle of august has turned back into a 12-speed. the bears and bees are coming out of hibernation, and little by little my social calendar is filling back up again ( Read more... )

So, what are you doing in this country?
Do you like it here?
Don't you miss home? Your family and friends?
Wait, you're American? How'd you learn how to speak French so well?Do you constantly get asked these same questions in your country of residence? Does it annoy the hell out of you? I'm wondering if it is just specific to the country I live in ( Read more... )

last weekend, i did this:


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i am celebrating may day by hanging around my apartment alone in my pajamas until as long as i can bear. séb brought a couple friends up to normandy last night, they will be returning tonight, but i elected to stay in paris so that i can attend my yoga class this evening. it is customary in france to offer people sprigs of lily of the valley on ( Read more... )

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

happy uneventful saint patrick's day from france! the kind of day where i write 17/03/2008 and don't even realize right away that it is saint patrick's day ( Read more... )