In the Bordeaux railway station. Weather is really hot this morning. I am quite late as the train got more than 30 minutes delay because it need extra cleaning before leaving Paris.
If I'd been differently motivated this morning, you would have seen a picture of my half-mowed lawn. But I'm still in my pajamas, and I'm still making photo CDs to mail to my mother, so that's that.
This is a good picture of my office. The white paper taped to the wall is a birthday card from last April. The clock on the desk has no hands - an unintentional Zen koan. And Sammy is in his usual place, wondering just what I think I am doing.
On the sidewalk outside my window, a group of Jehovah's Witnesses just piled out of a van. Now they are praying on the sidewalk, probably for the strength to bring The Word of Eternal Salvation to my neighbors and me. If they come to the house, I should silently hand over my clock. Would they ponder its symbolic meaning? Would they realize that time is irrelevant, that from a cosmic perspective, human beings are both brand-new and as old as the stars? That nothing can be eternally saved, because nothing can ever be eternally lost?
Place de Catalogne in Paris.
Walking in the 14st district of Paris (Montparnasse). Mainly rue Losserand
At work, just put the camera on the table and take my coffee...
Crossing the Montparnasse station: gonna to the FNAC store with my son to buy a book for him. He need a present for the birthday party where he is invited this afternoon.
I'm sitting at my computer, listening to the gardener's lawn mower right outside the window. I'm all sweaty from working out but I want to blog some ideas I have for writing my novel. I'm solving some logistical problems inside the book.
At 10:10 I was starting to play catch-up after having three days off this week (one national holiday and two state-imposed furlough days). The notepad and the green folder have already been taken to two meetings this morning.
There's a blue sticky note on my telephone, with my agency name and my own first name written on it. Whenever the phone rings and I'm in the middle of something (or even when I am not), I get temporary amnesia, and I sit there going "uhhh" instead of greeting the caller. This way, my calls start out on the right foot. I've had to post a prompt on my telephone for as long as I have held down jobs.
At work today, I just got a phone call from a taxi driver. My collegue FX just forgot his mobile phone in a cab 2 days ago, he was going to Charles de Gaulle airport to fly back to NY. Taxi driver was kind enough to keep the phone and bring it back to me.
Wow, how long has it been since I posted on Ten:ten? Recently I got up the energy to re-start my graduate thesis. For the last few hours I have been composing a study plan. The spiral-bound notebook actually has very few relevant notes, but it's sort of my security blanket. The book on Windows Vista is a talisman against evil. My neighbor across the street just left to run errands. It's a lovely, cool summer morning. It's nice to be blogging.
We are playing tourist today this morning. We show the Sacre Coeur: kids do not know that much Paris!!!
In the train for the Perche (in Normandy) I gonna see my parents with the kids.
I can't seem to upload a picture today, but you can imagine it: my washer and dryer, out in my garage. I'm determined to start posting to 10:10 to bring back a sense of balance in my life every day. Tomorrow I'll use a different computer to upload the picture and I'll have a record of the moment.
Nico and Pierre are playing ping-pong.
In Normandy, friends and sun are there!
Walking in the city center of Bordeaux (red wine's capital!)
Sara is working. You can see that we are using phone as well as skype!
I am driving my car in Montrouge a small city in the south suburb of Paris.
Walking in the rue du Commandant Mouchotte and then go inside the "Galerie Gaité" shopping mall: looking for a SD card for the new Nintendo DSi of my son.
In Bordeaux, place de Quinconce, waiting for the tram...
Walking in the forest in Normandy....
Walking in rue de Rome in the XVII district of Paris. Beautiful weather today!!!
In the tram in Bordeaux....
Going to take a metro (lign 13 in Place de Clichy).
Today I am in normandy and I am working with a friend of mine, Daniel. We are building a small wall to close the small garage closed to the house.
Walking in the Marché Edgar Guinet in Paris. There are those kinds of open market everywhere in Paris at least 3 or 4 times a week. Nice to buy fresh vegetables or fish.
Driving in Paris in the boulevard du Montparnasse...
The arrival of a TGV (name of the fast speed train in France) in the Montparnasse station. I like this video as it remains me the first videos ever made: the arrival of the train at La Ciotat by the Lumiere brother (1895!). Here the Youtube copy.
In Paris for an appointment!
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