Monthly archive December, 2006

Sucks

My Christmas sucked. What about yours?

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The Christmas Story

Prologue: Hello, this is my 2006 Christmas story. Chapter One: Reflections Christmas, however commercialized and bastardized, is the one event of the year, next to my birthday of course, that I look forward to. I do hate shopping for gifts during the Christmas rush, but I love wrapping them. I start singing Jingle Bell Rock...

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Funny time of year

My sister Dr. Doom and my brother-in-law Mr. Dr. Doom visited us in Paris. Denise wasn’t used to walking, but in Paris you have no other choice but to.

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I’m a holiday monster

I can’t believe how hard it is to find a nice laptop bag these days. All they sell are boring black ones. I look at the laptop bag selection at FNAC or Virgin Megastore or Darty and it makes me want to fall asleep right there on the aisle. Don’t companies make original-looking laptop bags...

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2007 will be a Very New Year

In the very near future, I won’t be living in Paris – or anywhere in France – anymore. I will be in Qatar, joining him, finally. I’m scratching my head, wondering whether Qatari immigration will let Bruno the Plant pass through. Also, I’m having a hard time deciding what to bring and what to put...

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Postcards

POSTCARD 1: Lopsided The world, the whole world, is lopsided. The world, and everything in it. First example is my jaw, so swollen that children recoil in horror and cling to their mothers when they see me (and the mothers in turn shield their children away from me, scared perhaps that I contaminate their darlings...

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