At the price of a few frozen fingers, we bring back to you some photographs of our courageous expedition into the snow-covered mountains of western Switzerland.
Category: Personal
Anything and everything about me and my life. You’ll have to hunt a lot for gossip-worthy tidbits, though.
Devoirs [en]
Je me réveille un peu en panique. Deux jours pour pondre dix pages, ce n’est pas trop long. Sujet du devoir: “Qui sommes-nous? Comment nous devenons adultes.” Le délai de reddition est le 16.
Heureusement, il n’y a de pages à écrire que dans mon rêve. Le sujet cependant m’interpelle. La date aussi: nous sommes effectivement le 14 au matin. Et le 16, alors? Ah oui, le 16, justement… Tout prend sens.
C’est obscur pour toi, ami lecteur, j’en conviens. Ce billet est de ceux que j’écris surtout pour moi.
Mainstream [en]
I’m afraid I might be going mainstream. All my hopes of being somewhat original are in the process of being utterly and totally shattered.
I promised a friend I’d get a TV if she ended up presenting a small show on the local television, and it seems that’s what is going to happen. I’ve been talked into acquiring a webcam.
So yesterday, as I was drooling before a huge collection of underpriced CDs, I figured it wouldn’t do much difference to my case if I put a link to my Amazon wishlist somewhere on my weblog. If I’m going mainstream, might as well go all the way!
Yeah, I got an ebay account, too. And let’s not forget the hair, either.
Note: boys, stop dreaming. You’re not going to see this here anytime soon!
Pink! [en]
As I haven’t posted photos here in ages, and I know you lazy things don’t regularly visit the dump, I’ll jump on the occasion. I finally took the plunge to get some colour in this hair of mine. I’ve been thinking about doing this for the last year or so!
I will provide an RSS feed for the dump someday.
To Do, To Live [en]
Beside write up my Christmas list (and I have desires for Christmas this year, for a change), I need to:
- go to the chalet more often
- go to places like this more often (and buy a new bathing suit)
- have more pink put in my hair (no photos yet, sorry)
- buy tons of stuff from Lush (that should happen Saturday).
The Very Thirsty Camel [en]
Once upon a time there was a camel, who lived in the dry, scorching desert. Long ago, he had drunk poisonous water out of an oasis, and it had made him very, very sick. What a bitter experience! He had very nearly died.
So this camel had become a very cautious camel: he avoided water so that he wouldn’t be sick again. He was thirsty, of course, but he preferred that to risking death again. He would wander around and go past the oases without so much as touching their water. He was a very thirsty camel.
Once in a while, however, he would reach an oasis where other camels were drinking. When that happened, he would start drinking there too, as the water was obviously safe. But this camel was so thirsty that once he started, he would drink up the whole oasis, leaving nothing behind him but a dry patch of mud.
But, will you ask, how did we get to know about this camel and his strange behaviour? Actually, the answer is pretty simple (aside from the dried-up oases, of course). You see, as this camel drank only so very rarely, and so much at a time, he had developed no less than twenty-seven humps on his back, attracting the attention of all the camel-watchers in the desert.
Parable told by J.-F. H.
Movie Evening [en]
Back from seeing Elephant with a knot in my stomach and a sick feeling inside.
The cat is asleep in my clean laundry. I pick him up and hold him close. He presses his head against my neck and purrs right through my chest.
More Photographs [en]
Just a note to let you know that if you haven’t looked through my dumped photographs in a while, you should go and have a peek. I often add photos over there but don’t necessarily announce it here.
Start at the top of the list and work your way downwards. You’ll find photos of this week-end in Spiez, of my holidays touring the UK and Ireland, and Barcelona. Of course, expect the occasional cat picture and underexposed shot.
Lush Bathroom [en]
This afternoon, I cleared out my bathroom completely and filled it up again, discarding over half its contents in the process. I actually have free storage space now in my bathroom cupboards. I rewarded myself with a candle-lit bubble-bath from Lush.
I briefly encountered Lush in Birmingham, and explored it more seriously in Dublin. If you like baths and/or nice smells, don’t miss this shop. The smells might make you a bit dizzy after some time, though. Prepare a credit card and treat yourself.
I recently discovered that Lush was present in Switzerland! And of course, you can buy online… The product catalog is really very well done (try the Lush site nearest to you).
Next Holidays: India [en]
Not to despair, let’s think about the future. Today I booked my flight for India: going out to Mumbai on January 17th, and coming back on February 18th. Sounds nice, doesn’t it?