Sorry for all the purists out there, but dude, if I have to pick between "100% French Tradition" or "With Cheese", cheese wins every single time.

(Which is why I will never make a proper Quiche Lorraine or an acceptable Gratin Dauphinois, but I totally do not care. :D )

I think I know why Harry Potter and the Cursed Child resonated so deeply with me - and it's actually not at all surprising. One of my favorite things to explore has always been the interactions between how we shape the world by our choices and how the world shapes us back - the many lives we could have had slowly being whittled down to the one life ( Read more... )

I don't have anything negative to say about it for the moment, I honestly don't. I may have smart things to say about it in a while, possibly, but right now I am so full of feels (ALL THE FEELS) that I don't even WANT to criticize it. I vaguely saw that people are frustrated that it brings nothing new, that it relies heavily on existing Harry ( Read more... )

I've been telling myself that I would, someday, make a long, in-depth, well-documented post about mental health issues, but it's been about 6 months since I started thinking about it and it still hasn't happened, so I'll make it short and sweet instead, and maybe the long post is still gestating and will get written someday. (But chances are I am ( Read more... )

2016 is not starting well, is it? And I mean, most of you guys aren't French - we also lost one singer, one actor and one composer/conductor in 2016, which is remarkable considering that we've had only two weeks of it ( Read more... )

I need to make a post about the CRAZY OMG that my workplace has become (and I probably will at some point, hopefully before I actually lose it big time and do something morally or legally reprehensible), but for the moment I wanted to share this afternoon's Moment of Secret Hilarity ( Read more... )

*sighs*

Shortly before Christmas, because clearly she must have read my mind and seen how much I needed to know this, a friend of mine linked to the Raindrops store in Toronto and its wonderful "Merde il pleut" umbrellas. NEEDLESS TO SAY I bought "Merde il pleut" umbrellas as a Christmas present to the family, in assorted colours: black for ( Read more... )

Froglet: Spelling is important ( Read more... )

*tilts head ( Read more... )

Oh, and also: Happy Martin Luther King Day to my American friends.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr


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