Jeezus i’m tired. Since Darleen

Jeezus i’m tired. Since Darleen and Stephen’s visit, i think i’ve gained 10 pounds, half of it consists of phlegm that’s attached itself to my esophagus from navigating smoke-filled bars and parties for the last 10 days. I’ve also managed to empty my bank account of an equal weight in euros.

Also, my longing for New York has returned with a vengeance. I have a ticket for February 22, which seems like years away. Yesterday I received a card from my airline mileage program offering a reduced miles ticket to the states. I am strict about flying the same airline, using the credit card program, the long distance carrier; i even once collected 5 coupons from certain kellogs cereal brands and mailed them in for 500 miles. I have a lot of miles. I have been planning a trip to Thailand with some of of them, but the friends involved seem to be flaking like so much pain au chocolat. Even with that trip i would have enough to also do another New York trip. But only two seconds of logic tells me it’s ridiculous to do a long weekend to New York, wear myself out, screw with my bio-rythms, and use up 35,000 miles when i have a ticket for 10 days in one month.

I attribute the recurrence of this wave of homesickness to the surprising appearance of a social life. Because, as my parents have been telling me all my life, once i have a little i always want more. More more more, damnit! Last night we went to a hole in the wall club near Place D’Italie (on a street we decided to call the “Rue d’esperation”). We walked in and confronted non-stop 60s obscure acid rock, and more mod style mullets in one room than… than… than what, jeez? Darleen exclaimed, “It’s the 60s!” I exclaimed, “It’s Williamsburg!” The 60s and Williamsburg aside, it was a really damn cool place. The vibe was good, the crowd was hot, the music was unique, the drinks were strong. But i couldn’t possibly bring myself to subject some unlucky Parisian to my broken small talk over the loud music. And i was the french speaker in the group – ha. This is easily why i am on a search for a club where i can just dance, and feel like i’m participating without having to speak. Of course no word from the french class i’ve again applied to this semester. If i don’t get in again, i either need to buy some Berlitz course on CD or get the hell out of here.

– This was written around

– This was written around quittin time yesterday –

So i’m sitting in the office trying to decide if i should wait for this disk image of Office X to mount and then install it today, or screw it and go home and deal tomorrow. I haven’t written this week because my computer is tormenting me. My watery, drop-shadowed, command-line enabled OSX machine. For the record OSX does crash. I have already crashed it 3 times in the 4 days i’ve had it installed. So far i am not rilly happy with the way this whole thing has gone here. There’s not so much software out for it yet, and the shit that is out is all buggy beta crap, and mostly i just hate all the damn anti-aliased text and drop shadows that make me feel like i’m going blind.

:: aside – it seems my swiped version of office X does not work – blech! ::

So needless to say i’ve not spent much time actually *doing* anything on the computer besides dealing with the computer. I am half considering uninstalling OSX and going back to the carefree days of 9.1. God but that pisses me off, all this wasted effort now… We’ll see.

It’s already thursday and i haven’t written at all about the fabulous party that i went to on saturday in the catacombs. I’m posting a silly picture of darleen (from nyc) and me and nils (de paris) posing in that catacombs sorta style.

Clearly the three of us need to start a band so that this can be the album cover. Anyway it rocked. There was dancing, there was wine, there was cheese, there was champagne, there was drumming, and there was a really cute but very weird guy who kept diving into the muddy floor and rolling around for no discernable reason. Check out anne-marie’s pictures of the fun. Mine will be up someday soon.

– back to today –

So it’s the last of a very long work week. The kids have been wearing me out with activity. I keep having to explain to them that my solitary self isn’t used to this much stimulation. It’s lunchtime now and i’m off for another round of battle with my bank.

More later.

The Archives are finally done

The Archives are finally done

The Friday post (down there)

The Friday post (down there) was supposed to appear on Friday – but blogger was down so finally got to it today.

Today isn’t really going to be a post but only to re-emphasize that i am all wrapped up in upgrading both my work and home computer to OSX. The upgrading itself is done, but getting all the software together is a task and a half. It goes without saying that i’m not going to actually buy any of it. But the swiping is made difficult by the fact that my office barely has licenses to any of the things i use, and of the things they do have, there’s a pretty good possibility that it will be a french version. So my future productivity is in the hands of the Hotline gods.

The weekend was plain fun, owing that i’ve got 2 good friends in town. There’s been a lot of wine and shopping so far. Also a rockin party in the catacombs on Saturday night. I’ve got lots of pictures that i should be posting any month now.

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…

This is so hilarious. Harvey

This is so hilarious.

Harvey the mouse has to go!

Cracked me up, via Butter.

So here it is folks.

So here it is folks. After fighting with Netscape for awhile, and waiting breathlessly for an opportunity for blogger not to be down, Version 3.0 is up.

The whole fun thing about this redesign is that i’ve designed a few different layouts (5 so far), that are set to load randomly. So hit reload a few times and see all the different styles. Also this means i can update colors and layouts whenever i find a new font or decide that today i like green and purple together.

I started this redesign way back in july, but it got pushed back like unpaid redesigns so often do. Keep in mind that the Archives and Riffraff sections are still in the works. Yeah, and also that, like, everything’s a work in progress, ok.

And props to les for writing the sooper-dooper randomizer script.

  • Jan 9
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“I think you’re like, overreacting.”

“I think you’re like, overreacting.”

I forgot how i got here, but it’s like hysterical.

AH HA! I have found

AH HA! I have found the problem! In case anyone is wondering: Netscape 4.7 reads file paths differently than everyone else. If you have a path to a file in your CSS document, one would think that it should be relative to that document. It is, except on netscape 4.7 (NN6 has fixed it). Netscape 4.7 makes it relative to the html document that the style sheet defines. Lame.

  • Jan 8
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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.

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