So, it’s been raining consistently every day since this past Saturday. I’ve never had a June this cold or wet. Last year at this time I was already discovering my inner Puerto Rican at the beaches in Santa Monica every weekend. Still, I enjoyed getting lost walking home today after hopping off a new metro stop. I jumped through puddles while listening to Bach Arias, which seemed like a very appropriate sound track for a rainy Parisian evening.
Jana and I stuck around the city this past weekend and had a busy couple of days with museums, etc. The Pompidou is almost as cool on the outside as it is on the inside – with every pipe, escalator, and elevator on the exterior, resembling a building turned “inside out”. Inside, we saw the Kandinsky and Calder exhibit (I had no idea Kandinsky was such a versatile artist!), saw some feminist galleries (I really dislike the fact that in art, feminism usually translates to vulgarity), and more famous works (Braque, Picasso, Pollock). Sunday, we took advantage of free admission to museums the first Sunday of each month and visited about an eighth of one of the wings of the Louvre. It wasn’t nearly as crowded as we thought it would be – Jana and I are going to try to spend evenings there, as it’s open late on a few nights a week, and we get in free with her Total badge. After, we went to the catacombs and saw lots of piles of bones, basically. The really interesting thing was reading about the history behind relocating thousands of corpses through 19th century Paris, and reading the inscriptions on the wall, giving advice such as “live each morning as if you won’t see the evening, and live each evening as if you won’t see the morning”. We finished off the afternoon by watching the finals of Roland Garros at Hotel de Ville on a huge screen with hundreds of fans sitting on the “clay” carpet they had rolled out. Yay Federer!!
Work has picked up a bit. I now am learning actionscript so I can demonstrate my scenario in flash. Gillian’s also coming to visit tomorrow and we’re planning on going to the VIP Room Theater in the 1er arrondissement with another intern from work. Should be fun!
Also booked tix for early July to see Patrick in Irelan’. Very excited!
