As you might have noticed, I have a very small readership. I don’t complain. I write for my own pleasure and therapy! But from time to time getting a comment is heartwarming, as it shows that someone finds my writing worthy of a feedback. Yesterday, I received a comment that at first I thought was [...]
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Thursday night, after a long and tiring day at work, I put on my high heels just to feel more feminine, and went to Le Palais des Congrès de Paris to see one of the legendary French singers and a master of chanson française in concert. I entered the hall filled with people of all [...]
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One of the that things I love owning in Paris, even if I don’t use it very regularly is my monthly cinema card. I pay euros per month and I can see “infinite” number of movies in selected movie theaters. This includes two major movie distributors and many small artsy cinemas. Considering that a movie [...]
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If you had asked me two weeks ago about rugby, I would have looked at you bluntly with no interest at all. Somehow things changed in the past two weeks. Maybe being in the middle of the commotion got me interested in the game, or maybe I was just longing for some excitement. Whatever the [...]
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When I was 19 or 20 years old, I was secretly in love with one of my closest friends. He was a smart, good looking guy, with some peculiar caprices! (probably that was what attracted me). We shared the same taste in music, movies, etc., but we had our different point of views vis à [...]
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Today I woke up to a better mood. I realized (for the 10th time now) that in the end of the day, what will matter is how much I learned at the end of my postdoc. True, they will look at my list of publications, but we all know that it’s better to have learned [...]
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These last few weeks I have been out of my skin (I don’t know if such an expression exists, I just want to say I have not been myself). One thing that I find pathetic and yet I have lived it all my life is people who become slaves of their work. Maybe for me, [...]
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It’s Friday night. I have been so stressed and tired this week that I could enjoy just a relaxing night at home. A glass of wine or beer, some salad, and a nice movie. The alternative would be to go out with friends and hang around. But somehow I can not do any of these. [...]
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Today was the first session of my french conversation class. The students started coming in one by one, introduced themselves and sat around the rectangular table. The teacher distributed copies of a recent interview of a law professor about the most debated issue of DNA tests for immigrants in France. The story is that someone [...]
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Last night was what is called la nuit blanche (white night) in Paris. On this night, different sorts of art performances on different corners of the city are offered for free from sunset to sunrise. In a surreal way, the streets are busy with people walking with programs in their hands and looking for the [...]
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