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Pandamonium!

Check out the little dude with both paws in the air! Me wantz

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Clay cats

This blog displays some great behind-the-scenes shots  (claycats.blogspot.com)

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Warning label

The only one I’ve ever liked:

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T minus 3 days!

being brought by the best delivery boy evvveerrrrrrrr!!!!! can’t wait

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Burka ban

It is well known that the French are resistant to adopting other cultures, and make every effort for its citizens to complety assimilate into French way of life, but their cultural determination reached new heights last week when a draft law was submitted in Parliament stating “nobody, in places open to the public or on [...]

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French laundry

Wish I was talking about the restaurant in Napa! Alas, today was the much belated, delayed and begrudged, laundry-day. I was nervous that the French would make this as complicated as everything else. I was wrong, they just make it super expensive! Every time I dropped 7 euro into the machine (for 1 load!!) I [...]

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Going Brazilian in Paris

This post is for the ladies…Normally I try to steer clear of the ‘advice’ oriented posts, but when it comes to finding a place to get a bikini wax in Paris, it is like shooting in the dark! Strange, for a city known for it’s salons. Anyway, I could not find any information online. I [...]

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Booby trap or blunder?

#4 – My favorite crepe stand (across the street from Les Deux Maggots) has burnt to the ground!! Now where will I get vin chaud on a cold night?

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Booby trap or blunder?

#3 – Coachella lists me as fan #4/48,047….the ONE year I can’t go!

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The Legion of Honor

My best friend received his birthday present today… bask in its glory!

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Booby trap or blunder?

#2 – man smoking cigarette while scootering at 40 mph in a round-about (my hero???)

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bye bye black betty

my Vespa lx150 (aka my pride and joy) will soon have a new owner the buyer has just informed me that he plans on tricking her out and taking her with him on the gumball 3000. this is the first i have heard of it, so i did a little research: “the gumball 3,000 is [...]

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Magic

Some in the MAGC program (we call it ‘magic’): (From left to right – Valerie (NYC), Anna (SF), Elizabeth (DC), Eilean (NY) and Bianca (Melbourne) I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that we get along so well, being that we all have 3 big things in common: love of travel, Paris and what we do. [...]

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Teal-ightful

was finally able to visit my apartment today. it was nerve-racking committing to a place sight-unseen, but man did i get lucky (or was it karmic retribution for having put up with french bureaucracy?!) here is my home (the red star), nestled in the 6th, between school (the yellow star) and the Latin Quarter: and [...]

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The amazing race

first day of orientation undergraduates were sent on a scavenger hunt as a bonding activity & way to familiarize themselves with the city. the graduates snickered, thinking how cute/thank god we don’t have to do that. little did we know, we get one all to ourselves. except it isn’t in search of croissants or a [...]

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