It’s been awhile since any meaningful posts have shown up around here. I’m not sure if there are any really good explanations for this. Today i am sort of in the dumps. Culprit numero uno this week is my job. I’ll just say it weighs heavy on my psyche and leave it at that. But of course this could all be accentuated by the double dose of PMS i find myself with.
The good news is that I may have spontaneously developed a social life. This past weekend we went to Parc de la Villette. The tagline reads, “Jardin Des Cultures” [Garden of Culture]. Ambitious. According to the site it used to be a slaughterhouse, which fits in with the total random jumble of stuff that it is. This place was way weird folks, but really really cool and trippy. Some highlights include a garden of mirrors, garden of same-sized and manicured “rolling” hills, gigantic buried bicycle, frozen water art, mirrored geodesic dome, a lot of children, 2 enormous exhibition halls, and the circus tent we went to for shopping/cabaret/wine. I took a few pics i’ll put up soon. The only thing missing was hallucinogenics, but hey, that’s so new economy. There was also practically no one there, which surely added to the coolness. I’m guessing no one was picnicking in the trippy gardens because it was insanely freezing. But some of us are brave. (Note: There was a lot of whining.)
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Nil by Mouth is written by Neille Ilel. Neille is a writer, reporter and user interface specialist in Los Angeles. If you think that's a lot, she's also got a host of meandering sidelines including improv comedy, tennis, cooking, drawing and thinking about learning to play the guitar.
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