Nil by Mouth

So i sucked it up

So i sucked it up and spent Saturday at the Louvre. It wasn’t as bad as i feared because, one, i had a free entrance ticket, and two, i know about a secret side entrance which never has a line. If you are planning a visit here and are intending to go, drop me a note and i’ll tell you where it is. The main line outside the pyramids is like a mile long cause there is only one metal detector for the entire thing. Anyway, i only really wanted to see the Rembrandt room which was, of course, closed for no apparent reason. So i had my rio and i just hung out in the sculpture garden watching people and statues for nearly 2 hours. Twice, suspicious-seeming security people came and stood next to me. I’m not sure why, but they left after a few minutes a piece. I like hanging out in sculpture gardens, there’s something sort of surreal about it. Like all the kids running through naked marble men pierced with arrows, weird, no?

Oh and on Friday night i horrified myself by saying, “I’ll ask him to explain me how to do that”. In case you don’t know, this grammatical error is the quintessential mistake that a french person speaking english makes. So great, my french is barely improving, but my english is hurrying along down the toilet.

Sunday, i worked on the overly-talked about redesign of this site. It’s just about done. Except that i am having trouble getting my background image to load on netscape 4.x browsers. I am doing it through a style sheet – and it just will not work, and i have no idea why the fuck not. This is the the code:

body {

background:#EF7752 url(img3/pomp_bck.gif);

margin: 0px;

padding: 0px;

}

Can anyone help me? So once i get that sorted out, or once i decide to screw netscape, i’ll just need to do all the transferring, and then there you’ll have it.

• Jan 7