Notes from the X-Ray Machine

New York City, La Guardia: They could give a crap if laptops are out of their bags or thrown in with jackets and shoes. Liquids here and in the rest of my recent US travels weren’t even glanced at. Chicago Midway: Laptop must come out of its bag and be placed in a separate container [...]

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My Visit to Disneyland – I mean, Versailles

Visiting Versailles during peak season in Paris was like visiting Disneyland during school vacation week in Florida: hellish. After a year of living in Paris and not visiting the famous palace, plus two years away (and not visiting the famous palace) I finally planned a visit out there on my last day in Paris (my [...]

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You Don’t Have That, I’m Sure.

I read in Paris in the made-for-Anglophones publication, FUSAC, that, when asking a shop keeper for something in French one uses the phrase, “Vous n’avez pas” such and such, or “You don’t have” such and such. In English we use the potitive form, “Do you [positive] have” such and such? I chewed on this linguistic [...]

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The Artists…

Just in case you weren’t convinced that the French are a culture totally behind their art: The below are from the Louvre’s website and the Musée Rodin’s website. I’m going to see if my EMC card will get me in today…

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Retour a Paris

Paris hasn’t changed. If anything, its romance has grown stronger in light of a gray spring in Boston. My French, while certainly not as polished as it was two years ago, isn’t as catastrophique as i was made to imagine might be the case. I once again find myself bobbing happily in a lazy sea [...]

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Update: My Life

It’s been a while and much has changed since I last posted to my blog. Plans for the next phase of life are in full swing and I wanted to share them here. To be totally honest, I don’t know if I’m running to, from, or parallel to situations that have taken shape. But I’m [...]

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Yale Grad School Essay: Critique Me, Please!

If we can buy homes and find true love online, then I see no reason why I can’t get some solid feedback on my grad school essay here too.  Just as the post says, this is the first (and very rough) draft of my 500 word essay to Yale School of Drama, MAM in Theatre Management.  [...]

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Pour Dimitri. Et Barbara.

Le debut c’etait depuis des mois.  J’ai commencé a penser a Paris.  A vous.  A nous.  A ma vie a Paris.  Mon français est null. Somehow this city is stuck in my head; you two are stuck in my head. It was a place I knew I loved from the start and I keep wondering [...]

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Bedtime Stories – Can You Tell Me Some?

If 50 is the new 40, then I think I’m having my quarter-life crisis at the age of almost-28.  I’ve realized that I’m afraid to move back home to New England after nearly two years abroad because I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.  You that read my blog are [...]

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Culture Shock: From Paris to Bombay

Overwhelmed doesn’t even begin to describe my first venture into the heart of Mumbai.  It’s my second full day in India.  I started the morning at 6:30 am with a run along the beach.  I was just as white in the cool morning air as I am now in the heat of the afternoon, but [...]

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