some pictures for sim.

two photos of a stormy day on the balcony, and a funny picture for you.
(flunch? seriously?)

tomorrow i am celebrating my birthday in style: bottles of bordeaux and a picnic on the seine with tim and joel!
... a night picnic.

so if you don't hear from me for a while, it's because i've fallen into the river.

oxo

photos by lina scheynius

sleeper

[Miles gets to look at some pictures to identify the people on them]
Miles Monroe: This was Josef Stalin. He was a communist, I was not too crazy about him, had a bad mustache, lot of bad habits. This is Bela Lugosi. he was, he was the mayor of New York city for a while, you can see what it did to him there, you know. This is, uhm, this is, uh, Charles DeGaulle, he, he was a very famous French chef, had his own television show, showed you how to make souflets and omelettes and everything.

hiatus: finis!

had my first coffee today
in two months
and positively shivering and shaking

hung out around fontaine saint-michel

then took a walk along the seine (i saw the eiffel tower... it's about time!)

(this guy's my favorite of all the faces. isn't he ridiculous?)

i am enjoying what the french call "joie de vivre"!

tetra mocha

photo taking is on hiatus until a full recovery!
though i feel much better now.
(went to printemps and citadium yesterday...if anyone feels like making me rich, please, go ahead.)

i really want to check out ken claude and the other vintage shops, but they're really hard to find when you have no sense of direction (thanks mom & dad).

guess i'll be pulling out my tourisme books for the time being...

in other news, this girl has yet to see the eiffel tower. seriously. three weeks in, haven't seen it yet. but that's tonight (and tomorrow)'s adventure(s).

for you : check out cheri's latest post, sooooo pretty.

i found this image while browsing a while back and i love it! i don't know whos it is, but if you know, let ME know!

i'm really sick right now and barely have the energy to walk out of the apartment. i've been in bed for almost 4 days. it's hard to believe i'm in this beautiful city and haven't even seen most of it. what's keeping me busy is cleaning the apartment, over and over again, between naps.
i'm tired of bad tv and sitting around with my thoughts that seem to just get more and more complicated and analytical.

i'll come back to this world when i'm feeling better...

little places, big places

i want to share some of the cool things we found today.
(while doing touristy things!)

the ceiling at the galleries lafayette...

the downstairs level... aaaamazing.


the freaky spike pole at the opéra...

a secret passageway in the middle of a dead street...


the giant doorway to a park in a corner of the marais...


my name on a ledge... + duck.

the columbus cafe in the marais
(do you see myberry? it's the french version of the american pinkberry! go figure.)

today was rainy and cloudy but it didn't stop me this time!