January 2010
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from my grandmother's memoirs
When my grandmother on my father’s side died (I was 11), she left a collection of memories from her childhood in the 20’s and 30’s that was supposed to be for her “grandchildrens’ eyes only.” We came across these pages today while sorting through old family photos and memorabilia. My favorite passages:
There is one back door delivery that I remember...
I love how in my vocabulary, the words “Ew” and “That sucks” sometimes become equivalent, and when used without thinking can sometimes come off the wrong way:
“I haven’t seen my husband in like a month.”
“Ewwww. I mean. That sucks.”
au revoir, paris
I’m off to the States tomorrow, a bit reluctantly. More at the insistence of my parents who have been pushing me to come home for a visit. With the timing, it’s a bit of a pity because after some depressing weather and events, I was just this week starting to feel like I was getting back on my feet a bit. I kept the house moderately clean over the past few days, managed to go on some...
The tale of the France Telecom suicides is a...
brokenbottleboy:
Francis Le Bras discovered he’d become a corporate nobody when his name disappeared from the organizational chart on the wall of his Paris office. In 2008, Le Bras’s employer, France Telecom SA, cut his job as a writer of software applications for Minitel, a pre-Internet information service for telephone users. While Le Bras, 56, stayed on the payroll, he had no job title, and...
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Old 97’s - Lonely Holiday
Since I’m...
September 29, 1997 (12 years old), to my diary...
Dear Kitty, I went to new york and had a great time until the party. Okay, I told you about my crush, Adam, well they they had a party, a stuck up snob party. Actually, I’m an awful person. I told my friends I was going out with him when really he probably was going out with some other girl wearing a slinky Prada dress. What I don’t get is why I’m still desperately in love with him. Every time I...
Roky Erickson - Anthem (I Promise)
I’ll...
“Imagine being on the top of a mountain and whenever a bad thought comes that...”
– My friends have gone all new agey on me! Except, I trust them so I think I’ll actually try this out. Now would you please excuse me as I attend to my burning sage.
Anonymous asked: Since you mention health insurance: do you enjoy the benefits of the famously efficient public health system in France as an American expatriate?
Anonymous asked: 1. Why'd you leave your full-time job? 2). Would you recommend freelancing full-time for a recent grad?
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écrivain? freelancer? pigiste? journaliste?
I’ve had one of those really exhausting days where you wake up early, start work shortly after, forget to have lunch, and then realize, oh crap, it’s 10:15 p.m. and even though you still have things to do, you just have to make yourself stop because isn’t it a bit ridiculous how funny and tired your brain feels, and isn’t it weird that you haven’t actually used your...
Anonymous asked: What's the best French (pop) music out today?
sheilamcclear:
if I take a pic can someone please diagnose what’s wrong with my eyelid.
I once got a stye in college. Health services sent me home with a bag of ice and some pamphlets on binge drinking and STDs.
hey leo, what do you know about life, love, paris?
Everything. Nothing. All that’s in between.
I don’t know. I don’t expect people to ask me these questions. I don’t ask them of myself. Yet, last week’s theme turned out to be a celebration of interrogation, one that came from some of the most surprising sources.
Tuesday morning’s French class started off normally enough with some friendly banter and vocab...
Anonymous asked: Did you study journalism?
brittanyabeijon asked: You are a great writer! How did you start writing for The Frisky?
Anonymous asked: How much does your apt in Paris cost per month? I'm trying to save money to do the same thing as you, and would like to know the ballpark.
fitsanddizzyspells asked: hey! where are you originally from?
“Chefs may create new recipes, such as new flavors of pie.”
– The Philadelphia Inquirer asks kids what they think will happen in the next 10 years. Most predicted that robots would rule the world. I like how this 8-year-old thinks: pie, people.
song title ideas i came up with while sloshed →
dial 9 for a lost god
blank pages scare me
yay for friends
the shortest of stories is the longest of boys
dutch oven
international dicklomat
the laundry song
i’m lonelier outside
echinacea playground
woody allen childhood
vignt metres carrés
out loud in her head
now accepting losers
elle va aller
