Well, I moved into my apartment today. Although really it was justa couple suitcases. The bed was delivered tonight, but everything else will be delivered over the next couple weeks. My appliances will be delivered tomorrow, so that will help. Then, I leave for Austin on Thursday. It'll be great to see my friends, I'm really looking forward to it. I bought some clothes this weekend. It's interesting: In the US they sell 'European Styling' but here they sell 'American Comfort'. In some of the clothing stores the big pitch is 'straight from Los Angeles (or New York)'. So, my parking place was no longer reserved after this first month, so I've lost it. This is a big deal. Parking is really bad. I'll post some pictures I took today to show you examples (once I get internet access at my apartment). So I signed my life away, I think. I signed a bunch of forms for the apt. All in French. When the agent opened up some of them to look at something, they rolled out all the way to the floor. Everything was in quadruplicate of course. It's amazing how your mind looks for something familiar when you compteley uproot yourself. I've been seeing friends, old teachers, ex-girlfriends all kinds of people I know around here. Of course, I look again and it's not them, just someone vaguely resembling them. I hung out with a bunch of people from work this weekend. It's amazing that I can be the only american in a group, but feel at home because the group is speaking english without a heavy french accent. It was a bunch of scottish guys, an indian guy, and me. I think I'll leave here with an accent that's british or scottish rather than french. Pretty much everyone here that speaks english speaks it with a british accent. Sunday was absolutely beautiful. A friend from work and I ate lunch at a tiny restaraunt in little italy right on the river. It was absolutely perfect weather, and it was a 2 to 3 hour lunch. Some of the best italian food I've ever had. Then that night I went out with some of the scottish guys and we acted like it was a friday night instead of a sunday night. One of them is trying to get me interested in power gliding. Apparently this is one of the top places in the world to do it. You can get your license in 4 days. I'm thinking about it, it looks amazing. See some of you this weekend!
Posted by Brian at April 15, 2003 12:43 PM