i have no internet in paris and i live in the 5th so it costs 4euro/hr in the nearest internet cafe - will update when i have more time/actual internet. i have a freeloader and several mice, and i live ten minutes from notre dame, and everything's pretty scary but pretty good, too ( Read more... )

 in other news, i cut off all my hair and i'm moving to paris on friday (love or what you will, pneumatique )

 'A Little Fable'

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the ( Read more... )

things that i learned from my family party ( Read more... )

 i am writing a fic based on a box office movie which contains references to ( Read more... )

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so i have made my decisions and arrangements, and come september, i am moving to paris.

"so over sloe gin fizzes for her which took tiny sweet bites out of maijstral's five-pound note, and beer for benny, they talked of how it was they had come this far and where they would go after valetta, and it seemed there were beaver and the street for them separately to return to; and both agreed this was nowhere, but some of us do go nowhere ( Read more... )

i remember lying on the bed in the boxroom, the covers latticed into lace with burnholes, smoking, staring at the ceiling, staring through the skylight, a pane of indigo fading to teal and yellow, the leaves black silhouettes, the smoke spiralling dovegrey, drifting, dreaming, listening to the trains going past. floating on the seas beneath the ( Read more... )

 when you are sad at two am there is no one there

but there you go and there you go and there you go