Mitraillette #319: Good Stuff

OK, I'll make an effort...

• Went to St. Germain l'Auxerrois today and I think it's the first time I've ever been in it. Pretty cool and extremely fun porch, which you don't see that much on Paris churches.
• Fun very light spitting rain that lasted the better part of an hour before increasing in intensity timed perfectly for my 30 minutes that I was killing in the park before meeting one of the students at 15h.
• Bus!
• Nice lunch with CVK.
• Didn't get lost on the way home from lunch even tho I had to go thru la Place des Victoires, which seems to be sort of a black hole for me normally. It's like a mini-Luxembourg - I almost can't go thru it without getting lost.
• Controlled myself admirably at THREE different potentially spendy moments.
• Got a good deal on the train tickets to see Lydie et Pierre in Caen next weekend - saved about 18€!
• The afternoon guy au Lutèce was really nice as usual.
• My mosquito bites are letting up a bit.
• Extremely fun Japan style dog in the park. Inu desu!
• Remarkably free-of-pee-odor stretch of the park where usually it's strictly hold-your-breathville.
• My favorite guy at the FranPrix cash register.
• Finding out that the laundry detergent I'm almost out of and will definitely have to buy a new box of will only be 5€ instead of the 8-9€ I was expecting it to be.
• Remembered to buy more Toilet Duck.
• Giggled as I grabbed it because it always reminds me of Smack the Pony.
• My so fun and quiet bedroom with the great breeze (nothing, nothing, NOTHING like French air coming thru wide open windows on summer nights - so nostalgic too) and the nice hard mattress, where I'm heading now... :)

Rain

It never really bothers me in France. Well as long as I just have activities with myself. It's problematic with group stuff with the students, or can be.

I'm at café Notre Dame, just ran some errands and am taking advantage of the rain's having emptied out the café before I head home.

Brief hello to test the blogger app on the touch mostly just so you all know I'm still kicking. This won't become a habit, partly bc it takes forever for me to text on here with my fat thumb hitting delete every time I try to hit an M, mostly bc my french is gettig relatively little practice so far this year.

So here's a pic to celebrate.

Considerably less rainy than today.





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