Nil by Mouth

My friends Darleen and Stephen

My friends Darleen and Stephen got into Paris today. They’re are spending a little over a week in my “adorable apartment” so updates may be sporadic. We had a hilarious lunch today, cracking up, being loud and American. C’etait super! I can only be funny in french if i make some sort of word mistake (like asking the waiter for the sin soup, instead of the fisherman’s soup, those words are very similar). And any sophisticated sort of humor requires a much greater mastery of the language that i have. I think if you can be witty in another language, you’ve totally mastered it. I am so many moons away from that.

After the last MacWorld, i’ve been inspired to install OSX on my laptop at home. I’m itching to try out iPhoto. Now that i have a digital camera, i take so many pictures – but i am so backed up in cropping, correcting, and uploading them – that they just gather the proverbial dust on my hard drive. So that will be this weekend’s projects, whenever the kiddies are exhausted from trecking around the city in search of LaCoste underwear (not kidding, not kidding at all). Luckily i’ve got a partition so if i fail, all will not be lost (i hope). Either way, i’ll be doing a lot of backing up first.

It’s also sale time here in gay Paris. There are only two times a year that stores are allowed to formally have sales (“soldes”), and this is one of them. Exciting indeed. I need new winter boots, badly. I’ve worn through the soles of last years down to nothing. I swear i could feel a pea underneath them, not too mention the cold cold sidewalk. Here’s to a weekend of shopping and humor and OSX…

• Jan 11