One day since coming back. Jet lagged. Indescribable sensation of weirdness. Need to remember this sensation, happening every time I come back from a far away vacation. New sensation each time renewed, each time forgotten, each indescribable. Is it the jet lag, the travels, a combination of both, all the things seen, the movement of what was seen ( Read more... )

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Spent 9 days in Ayguesvives, next to Toulouse, with my parents. Was nice. Best day was when we went south to see my uncles and aunts on my mother side to 'Ax-les-Thermes', not far from the Spanish border. Spent the day there in my uncle's remodeled old sheep house. Otherwise, spent time enjoying my dad's food, and just staying around the house and ( Read more... )

Spent one afternoon in Paris before taking off to Toulouse. Thank you Air France for always a great flight! Saw a photography exhibition by Richard Avedon (every newspapers and magazines talked about this, probably because he photographied celebrities, just like Annie Leibowitz  (rule: when you do photography, don't take pics of rotten apples) and ( Read more... )

I joined a fun email game, in french. The rules are simple: each player plays a character and exchange emails between each other. The story progresses through those exchanges. One of the players is the 'game master' who tries and orchestrates the events. I'm not sure exactly how he does that yet since he can't be part of every communication, or ( Read more... )

July 2008. Nicole and I are preparing to leave on Monday for ( Read more... )