"...When I think of my future, [...] when I ask myself: 'What shall I do when I return? What path shall I follow?' and the like, I am full of doubts and indecision. At every stage in my life I have shirked facing my problems in just this same way; and I shall die at eighty before having formed any opinion concerning myself or, perhaps, without ( Read more... )

­­­"The memory of a carefree era when everything was possible serves as a security blanket for a self-doubting nation, Mr Le Goff contends. The 1968 movement sought to break from the past, he says, "but the 40th anniversary has become a moment of nostalgia for a France that no longer has a future"."

i would have told you i missed you sooner


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Bens Restaurant closes forever

i keep having a nightmare that montreal is being ripped to shreds in my absence. AND IT KEEPS COMING TRUE.


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last saturday my american girls and i tried to organize a big game of hide-and-go-seek. inspired during a fit of non-intoxicant related brilliance that would make any middle american soccer mom proud, we decided to encourage everyone we knew to come out and have some old-school fun before hitting the bars. needless to say, the reactions of our ( Read more... )

a few days ago the bulb in my bedside lamp died. i kept going shopping but forgetting to buy more bulbs, only remembering as i got into bed every night. there was nothing extraordinary about the bulb - no special shape nor voltage, just a plain 60 watt lightbulb, and the lamp is an ordinary ikea desk lamp with a very ordinary screw-in bulb socket. ( Read more... )

today has been wonderful.


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