Essentially randomness
There continues to be very little actually happening, what with the weekend and all, but there’s a few pictures I figured I might as well upload.
First, last Thursday’s grève-induced chair stuff (I’m not sure who decided Thursday would be The Day for strike-related demonstrations, attempted blockage of universities, etc, but it’s really become quite mundane at this point):
The escalators and stairs in the entrance lobby area, leading to the bridge over the highway to Bâtiment A.
A Japanese student photographs chairs.
The chairs said student was photographing. This is the left side of the lobby as you enter.
And this would be the right side of the lobby.
This is the innovative, high-tech method students have used to block doors.
This is the soda bottle which I use to brew tea. There are, in this picture, something like a dozen teabags in it, because while they can be squeezed in through the top, they’re just about impossible to get out again. Here, you can see the interesting results of my adding a caramel candy to dissolve in the tea: it messed with the density of the water, I believe, and all the bags floated to the top. This seemed, at the time, worth commemorating for posterity in photographic form, so I figured I might as well include it here.
Place des Abbesses. This is in Montmartre, I believe, which is rather trendy and touristy and whatnot; the combination of non-right-angling streets and lots of hills makes it feel a bit like Washington Heights. Except, you know, shorter. Anyway, that’s a pretty church and a metro station, with some kind of art class gathered around the station drawing it or something.
See? Pretty. Nice geometric stuff.
Pure wishful thinking.
Friendly scaffolding cover.
The big lot outside the St-Denis cafeteria is getting turned into a lovely garden. Yay!
‘Tis Spring! Flowers and students sprout on the grass. Isn’t that just picturesque? Of course, it’s right next to a relatively busy, noisy highway. But hey. You take what you can get.
