Café lunch

9.90 EUR for entrée+plat du jour:

cucumber salad

jambon endive "tamale things"

delicious.

lunch specials are the way to go, here in Paris.

Froid

Temperature: 36 degrees

Mood: :/

Today's schedule: Versailles visit at 1:30 !

Holy Moly, Guacamole!

Just finalized all my Fall Break plans with Samira!

Th Oct 22 - overnight train to Munich, Germany

Oct 24 - morning train to Prague, Czech Republic

Oct 27 - morning train to Vienna, Austria

Oct 29 - morning train to Budapest, Hungary

Sun Nov 1 - flight from Budapest to Paris

And that's that! Hostels are booked and the train await our arrival. I can't even begin to grasp how much fun we're going to have!

Counting Continents

Pre-Nuit Blanche, Samira, Enyi and I Skype. The conversation quickly turns serious as we discuss how many continents there are.

Samira and I "dans ma chambre" take snapshots of an unaware-Enyi. What is this pout-itude?

...and so it begins...

Samira: counting continents.

Samira and I strike a pose.

And another.

I send them to Enyi for a surprise! The jig is up.

Gosh Darn It

Il y a une grande mouche dans ma chambre...

A Keeper

Whatever those few moments are in a life, that reverberate with a quelling importance and visual vibrancy, there was one today. Walking alone on a particularly winsome street, the wind blew small currents of air around my feet and flapping coat. The ground was nearly blanketed in yellow leaves that shhh-ed like the sound of flipping a sheaf of paper. They linked hands and waltzed through the air, rushing by me in a gust of wind and settling just as quickly as they had risen. For a moment, I felt alone in the most deliciously isolated way.

I don't know if it's all that yoga I've been doing or what, but I mentally clung to the moment as it whisked by in the passing seconds and resolved to shelve it in the KEEPER section of my memory bank.