This is officially the final post in this bloggy-thingy Last day in Paris can be summarized thusly: There was some stuff I thought I might mail home, but I was too lazy to do that, so I stuffed everything into the bags: The trash bags, obviously, are trash; the Ikea bag is stuff I took […]

I meant to update over the weekend, but there was no real internet. I’m actually back in New York and everything, but I’ve still got a backlog of stuff to put up, so I’ll, you know, put it up. Last week, I took a trip into La France Profonde — The Deepest Darkest Depths of […]

So I meant to post this on Wednesday but then I didn’t. Since then I’ve gone and done stuff, in the past few days, which I’ll get around to posting eventually. Like, tomorrow. Probably. In the meantime, pictures. From my last visit to the St Denis campus: Mural thingy: The stairs and escalators, without barricades! […]

I thought it was probably worth noting that my stay in Paris has involved a lot of change. I don’t mean that kind of change, the stuff-becoming-different-from-how-it-was-before kind of change, which obviously has happened but really happens everywhere all the time and therefore isn’t particularly worth noticing in itself. I mean, you know, change. Pocket […]

Still no luck in getting the paper with my grammar grades for the MICEFA. I went to St-Denis today, around 10:45, remembering that the FLE office closes early on Fridays. I discovered that “open 9:30-12:00” actually means “open 9:30-12:00, unless it’s after the end of classes for the semester, in which case we don’t bother […]

Last week, I decided to ignore my room’s lack of microwave. This was a principled act of protest against a dorm administration that, clearly, wants to limit my access to cheap, fast, unhealthy foods. I bought a few frozen dinners at Franprix, and heated them in the frying pan. Naturally, I felt a need to […]

I’m pretty sure I haven’t posted pictures of this previously. I kept meaning to take photos of this wall, which stretches out along one really long block near where the train lines head north from the Gare du Nord and all, not too far from the dorms. Starting at the west end of it: And […]

This is my shortest post to date, I think. Just felt I should make mention of an interesting little slideshow featured in today’s NYT headlines, regarding urban-planning concepts for Paris. Nothing strikingly unusual — every urban-design project these days is about building higher and/or greener, really — but short and worth a look. Audio Slide […]

First, some utterly random, non-Parisian trivia that has been amusing me recently: You know the song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”? Catchy little tune put together by some bandleader type guy in the Union army, about how everybody in [generic 19th-century town] gets all happy when their darling little boy comes back from war (Sample […]

Huh. Last time I remember checking, it had been 2-3 days since I’d last updated. Somehow, someone snuck in and stuffed a lot of extra days between me and the last post. The good news is that I now have something to write about that isn’t a rant about the French educational system (and really, […]