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Sat, 26 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [630]
My first scheduled activity on Tuesday was a harp lesson. Taking advantage of having a harp in my apartment, I was able to run through the piece one final time the morning of my lesson. So I could determine that I'd neither forgotten the piece nor gotten ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, music, opera
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [576] | Comments [1]
Monday being the one weekday that I don’t have any classes, it tends to be when I schedule or plan on getting around to doing all of my boring things. Other times, it ends up being when other people ask me to do things. Those both turned out to ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, banks, registration, rent
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [1248] | Comments [1]
Saturday and Sunday were the journées du patrimoine. "Journées du patrimoine" being French for "for two days, and two days only, we open a lot of buildings to the public for free."* Saturday plans being what they were, I didn't have the ... Read more >
Tags: beautiful houses, palais elysee, president
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [608]
SUMMER’S LAST DAYS, SAVE FOR A FEW FLASHES, were dreary and wet. But today, the first day of autumn, dawned spectacularly. Woodsmoke perfumed the morning chill while redstarts and tits — crested tits, long-tailed tits and ... Read more >
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [811]
Lyon was not a city on my (long) list of travel destinations. Were it not for the easy, cheap train from Rolle coupled with the easy, cheap flight from Madrid for Chris, I doubt I ever would have found myself here. In looking for a place to meet ... Read more >
Tags: cities, europe, france, markets, surprises
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [691]
Saturday was a cooking class. Joe, Megan , Maria José, and Aimé were also signed up for that session. (This was the second of three sessions, each with a cap of six people.) The cooking took place at a private house about an hour from ... Read more >
Tags: cooking, food, harp
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By viajandooso | Photo Gallery
Paris September 2015
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Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By viajandooso | Views [434]
Nobody knows my Name:
To laugh is-to appear the fool.
To weep is-to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is-to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is-to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, ... Read more >
Tags: paris
Mon, 21 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [488]
My Fridays begin at 9 in the morning at Juisseau. Except, seeing as I don't live right there, and even if I did I'd still need time to get ready in the mornings, this required getting up significantly earlier. Early enough that the sun had not finished ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, history of math, international students, math, phonetics
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [594]
Thursday required me getting up in time to be at a 10:45 class. It is one of only two morning classes I have this semester. Life is rough.
The class in question was topology. I think it won the dubious title of most comprehensible topology class ... Read more >
Tags: banking, french, math, sunset, topology
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [446]
You'd think that, after one week of classes, I'd have enough familiarity with my schedule to be able to match names to numbers. Certainly, when I'm looking up the classrooms for the TDs, I'd pay accurate attention to which class I'm going to be going ... Read more >
Tags: math, russian, topology
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [1934]
MONTIGNAC ISN’T FAR FROM ST. MARTIN-DE-VERS as the crow flies but it is 85 kilometers by winding country roads. I suspect our GPS, Sir Clive, may have thrown in a twist and turn or two just to be cute. We were in this area four years ... Read more >
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [590]
Analysis has grown on me every time I’ve taken it. The first time I took it, I liked it, but it was basically just a math class. A math class that involved more rigor and writing than I was used to, but nothing super special.
The next analysis ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, food, harp, math
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [671]
THE FRENCH CALL IT “ DIVERSION .” For us it was a minor detour from Connie's original plan, through some spectacular scenery to visit our oldest new friends. We met Allan and Diana on the cruise to Barcelona back at the beginning ... Read more >
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [520]
Since I’d designed my schedule to not have classes on Monday, I didn’t have anything I needed to do when I woke up in my own apartment the next morning. So I decided to finally get around to something I’d been meaning to do for a while:... Read more >
Tags: artichokes, cooking, food, kitchen, shopping
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