December 2009
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Porters, 26th December '09
I’ve missed this.
This City I Live In
Sitting in the window of Starbucks on Rue de l’Echelle, in plain view of the Musee du Louvre, sipping on a mocha and scrawling in my moleskine. My haircut is growing out, admittedly, and i should probably get some new shoes, but i’m wearing a vintage leather jacket and LBD convo, that might pass me off as at least somewhat chic. I hope.
As far the the first four months living in Paris...
Snowday
Thursday morning i woke up, rolled over and looked out of my window, to find myself confronted with this.
Oh yes. I gasped. Snow. And this was no English, coastal snow - grey, a little slushy, and more or less gone by midday - this was thick, white, crisp, and about three inches deep. My little courtyard was transformed into a winter wonderland, the two pink roses that had survived the cold...
Casse Noisette
Sunday, i went to see the little girl i look after dance in her end of term ballet show.
Not just any ballet show. She attends the Academie Americaine de Danse de Paris, the show was the Nutcracker, and it was at the Palais des Congrès de Paris, in a 650 seat theatre. Not the faintest trace of gum underneath the seats.
Needless to say, it was stunning. The costumes, the leads, the lifts, the...
Disco Showering
I’m not going to lie, i’m not in a very good mood tonight. I watched Revolutionary Road, which, it would seem, is never a good idea if you live on your own and therefore nobody can find you hanging from your shower rail. And then on the way home from work, thanks to sheer laziness of dog owners here (who are SO averse to picking up that the French government gave up, and allowed...
For a good two weeks now i’ve been trying to ask to New Yorker if he wants to come to England for a couple of days over New Years, but i just can’t quite get the words out. Every time the opportunity arises i almost succeed, i anticipate the words hanging in the air, and the expression on his face, but then i get too nervous and swallow them back down again.
In short, i need to grow a...