Bad Girl [en]

I’m being bad. I’ve spent quite a few classes writing stuff down.
And it’s very hard to resist the temptation to type everything up and post it in one go.
But I’ll wait. I need sleep, don’t I?

Advice [en]

Don’t do what silly me did: when you receive spam, avoid clicking on the “remove” link.

One of my email boxes is now being filled with offers to help me make lots of money in no time and with no effort.

I am therefore doing a net-hunt to figure out the best way of dealing with the problem. You can expect another “Advice” post on the subject once I have finished my research.

And in the meantime, don’t click any links on those nasty spammy emails!

House of Style [en]

There! I just had to write a review for the House of Style…

Say [en]

I think I’ve always felt I had something to say to the world – something to leave behind me.

Is everybody like that or is it just me?

Google Toolbar [en]

[fr] I have found an office to create a coworking space in Lausanne. Up till today, I had three coworkers ready to sign up... only for various reasons, they aren't anymore. I'm not financially secure enough to sign the lease in these conditions. If you're in or around Lausanne and you think this coworking project is worthwhile, I need your help: we need to find three people interested in becoming "full-time members" (300.-/month, six month commitment and one month deposit) for Nov. 1st. Please spread the word. Thanks for your help.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Google Toolbar.
Cool.

Recul [en]

C’est à  la lumière de l’après que l’on lit le passé. On lui donne sens.
D’où l’hésitation à  interpréter le maintenant.

D’où la clôture qu’apporte la mort, comme nous le dit Sartre.

Appliquons cela aux relations d’amour ou d’amitié.
Une fois que l’histoire est terminée, on parvient à  extraire toute une série de signes avant-coureurs.
Mais prenons l’histoire présente. Ne pourrait-on pas y trouver ces mêmes signes, si on les cherchait? Et ne pourrait-on pas en trouver d’autres, en fonction des fins possibles que l’on peut inventer?

Household Advice [en]

I highly advise all my readers not to let dirty washing-up pile up in the sink for a long time – a “long time” being… erm… let’s say “more than a few days”.
And if it did happen, get something better than candlelight to wash it by. You can’t see anything in candlelight.

Yes, the bulb in my kitchen is broken, and I can’t get the “ball-light” off the ceiling – I mentioned that already, didn’t I?

Dog [en]

Cali has always been keen on herding “things”. “Things” being: Bagha, the servants in India, and any male stranger who appears to be “a worker”.

She also likes digging. She bites mouthfuls of earth out with her teeth. When I left India with Bagha, Aleika told me that Cali simply spent her time in the garden digging holes.
Yesterday evening, I was on the phone with my grandmother in the university grounds, while walking her. Of course, it’s hard to talk and walk at the same time, so at one point I just stopped where I was, in the middle of a patch of green.

By the time I had hung up, Cali had dug a hole big enough to contain her head and shoulders. I put the earth back in, but I don’t think it will fool anyone…

Her “new” thing now is trees. I’d always heard jokes about dogs and trees, and I’d already noticed Cali liked peering up trees when a cat or squirrel was around. She did that in India, already.
But the “tree mania” has got much more intense lately. She has her list of trees on our walk, and she’ll run from one to another and guard them, nose up high. It’s specially funny at the university, where she will do that with simply enormous trees which make her look like a miniature doggie.