December 30, 2010

Journal de Nantes #7


"So L and A aren't so gung-ho about picnicking after all." / What? So what do we do now? / Hey,
Lens tells me you don't want to have a picnic, what should we do instead? / "What? I never said that!" /
Max is calling / "Hey, you at the flat? I need my keys :-/"
June 16, 2010 I had planned to have a picnic on the beach with Léns, Né-chan and Lisa,
but we all misunderstood each other, and in 20 mins I send 3,50€ worth of texts in "roaming" mode.
**
14h00 PORNIC 48
Tegan and Sara's "Sainthood" is a very good album to listen to when you're driving in sunny weather.





At the beach it's cider (+1), Pringles, pretzels, all sorts of jabs and friendly putdowns.
It's just like the good old days, and I get the feeling somehow that I haven't even been gone,
everything is great, everything is still here, the lame plays on words, the exchange,
just the feeling, when you get down to it, of being with family.



While wading I realize that the beach is filled with starfish that are more or less dead.
It's the starfish graveyard...
***
That evening I go to a dinner hosted by a friend from the student group. Max and I leave early (I'm staying at his place) and we have ourselves another nightfall chat-tram 3 session like we used to in my 9th semester. I'm very fond of Max and it's weird to think that next year he 'll be in London, not Nantes...

[Bonus sonore]

December 26, 2010

Journal de Nantes #6






Tuesday 15 June
Clr:"Are you freaking kidding me?!" / Contrary to what we had been told,
the law exam was not a case study. / [Absolutely not the type of exam we were supposed to have.]
**
[Highly advanced means of random selection.] / Clr: "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo..." / I am chosen to
draw the subject for the second exam at random and potentially hate myself until the end of time.
I draw semiology for my group. Phew!
* Bébé à l'intérieur.

I meet up with Cécile that afternoon to grab a beer (and an Orangina)
on the Place du Bouffay. I can't believe she's PREGNANT!!!


J'use rarement du langage décrit plus haut. Sauf quand mes circonstances ont un fort taux d'absurdité.
(Quand on clique sur les images deux fois elles deviennent super lisibles, promis.)

[ Bonus sonore ]

December 4, 2010

Journal de Nantes #5

Nantes, 14.6.2010, shopping with Né-chan.
***
Ca ne rate jamais.


November 29, 2010

Journal de Nantes #4

Le journal de Nantes, la suite! Avec d'abord le récit de mon court passage à Paris, juste avant de débarquer pour mes exams dans la Cité des Ducs, en juin 2010. (N.B.: rien à voir avec mon séjour en octobre dernier pour la soutenance de stage, qui d'ailleurs a bien été validée... I am Doppel-Master now.) In June this year I spent a week in Nantes to take exams and swung by Paris first. Comics translated below!

Pour pouvoir lire correctement, il faut cliquer sur l'image... sorry. Pas encore trouvé (cherché?) le moyen d'agrandir. / To read, please click on the image. Sorry bout that.



En arrivant chez Patrick et Anne-Laure, je trouve un sticker CHOSEN
sur mon oreiller, laissé par J.C. avec un petit mot au dos.
C'est un peu comme le geocaching...
(Je crois qu'il m'a déjà fait le coup une fois?)
**
En attendant le RER, j'ai ruminé sur la différence criante entre
Paris et Berlin. Pour la première fois depuis un long moment
je suis très ambivalente quant à l'idée de "rentrer au pays".
[Ecran datant des années 80, encore en état de marche]


Clr: "Ca me dépasse."
Clr porte: "cours que j'ai pas fini de réviser", "mauvais billet"
Avétis porte: "textes" et un casque audio de psychopathes
*****
4:40pm: I get lost in the labyrinth that is the Parisian suburban rail system.
I'm supposed to meet Avétis at Notre-Dame and I ride in the wrong direction.
Clr: "This is too much."
Clr is carrying: "notes I haven't finished going over", "wrong ticket".
*
At St-Michel, Avétis gets to be the first of many to ask:
"So this is your last year - then what?"
I tell him I want to tell stories - and that I don't want to leave Berlin.
Avétis is carrying "texts" and wearing freaking insane headphones.



I don't want to go over these notes a second time.
20 mins. later... I spend 45 mins lying down on the mattress.
Exhausted.

Clr: "Berlin, Nantes, boys, comics, future, past, present."
Sceaux - Anne-Laure and I get coffee and tea just like
in the good old days in front of a pie place downtown.
Before hitting up the Parc de Sceaux and an exhibit
about the Hauts-de-Seine département.


My buddy Xav, also from Lyon, now lives in Paris
and drops by to see us!! Such good and crazy times.
[Licorice-mint tea]



Je m'excuse d'avance pour les têtes des autres/Apologies for y'alls faces.

November 25, 2010

The root of affection






Un petit truc rapide fait au feutre PaperMate (where have they been all my life?).