birthday dinner went off without a hitch (a long climb up rue de belleville but it made us hungry so that ended up being a bonus). the food was delicious, the wine was amazing, the boy was happy. all good things. drinks with friends at the express bar and a short ride home before 1am. all good things.
nespresso in the morning, a lovely chat with a smiley parisian woman at a stoplight who liked my rabbit fur jacket ("marché aux puces ou le marais?" "ben, le maris..." i admitted, guiltily. "but i didn't buy it, it was a gift"). singing and dancing alone in the office this morning, only to be caught by the gardien who was standing in the doorway with the mail...laughing. why is she so tan? two white chocolate cookies for breakfast. watching an old movie tonight at one of the tiny theatres on rue des écoles. all good things.
now...one very bad thing. i just read an article in the herald tribune (since my boss finished his paper during the hour and a half that he was stuck in the train because it ran over someone, okay- two bad things):
sarah palin is really starting to scare me...i have always had nightmares but they were improbable before (faking death in a helicopter crash so that the nazi soldiers wouldn't find me and i could escape into the jungle, strangling a baby, setting a haunted house on fire, sitting before a panel of french doctors and then having to pay sixty-nine euros because i didn't have health insurance, taking flight on my bicycle, chatting with monkeys in a café...just things that probably won't happen); but the pitbull hockey mom with a barely used passport and a degree in journalism who wasn't even popular in high school and who probably wants to make my kids pray in school who could be headed to the white house, that is beyond nightmarish. so i already mailed my ballot. get those scary people out!!! it's almost halloween. i have enough scary things in my imagination, i don't need them in real life.
so tonight i will try to find a pumpkin to carve. another good thing...keep 'em comin' please.
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