Randy Pausch has changed my life. .for good...
Randy Pausch has changed my life. .for good...
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2010 is the year when I have finally realized that change is necessary and can be great as long as you are the one making it by taking control of your destiny and by deciding to stop, as Steve Jobs (the Apple guy), to live someone else's life. I've been blogging for 4 years now. Along the way, in spite of my self and against received ideas, I have realized that it isn't just a phase for me or something that I'm doing hoping to find something else or while waiting to stumble upon bling-bling or happiness. Because of this unshakable reality, because blogging is neither a temporary thing nor a hook and has become my most enjoyable activity, I have decided to put it at the center of my existence by changing the way I blog and by becoming, finally, fearless.
I have decided to make a few changes. The first important change will come on January 25 when I come out the shadows and into the light. 2010 is going to be a fun and unbelievable year because I'm going to be more daring and more willing to shake things up. Happy New year and let's the fun and the countdown begin.
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I'm in a desperate need of a spark...
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I'm taking a time out probably until Monday, but before I go, I will leave with you this sugary excerpt, which just reinforces my antagonism to Supernanny and to other shows that make a mockery of the complexity of parenting and of children:
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I'm simply enjoying a great Fall Saturday. One of the reasons why it is great is because I'm reading Marylinne Robinson's Housekeeping, which elevates my mood
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I'm brain dead and in a state of panic over the meaningless of my existence so I'm shutting up. I'm taking a few days off. To end on a high note, I like Sara Gruen's writing. I'm not sure that I love it, but I can see myself getting there or just enjoying it from time to time like I enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (an over the top but soulful and necessary american creation).
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I'm trying hard to take fully advantage of what is for me the last day of summer so I have nothing say except that I wish it would have rained more this weekend , that I hope that Yankees don't win the World Series and that Nadal is able to make it to the second week of the US Open.
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Ted Kennedy died last night. The one thing I will say about Ted Kennedy is that he made the most of what he had and that makes him in my view not only the greatest Kennedy, but also a great American.
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I had a strange allergic reaction to something I ate last night and what scares me is that I still don't know what it is. I just reminds me that even in New York, one has to be careful about one eats especially when eating raw food such as Sushi.
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Just watching TV this Sunday (Golf). It's too hot outside and I'm too tired to take the chance of falling in the streets of Manhattan. I can hardly wait for the Fall.
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I'm not thanking God for it, but I'm just glad that it's Friday.
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What I love the most about August is that it signals the end of Summer and the beginning of my favorite season, which is Fall. The weather, this year in New York, has been unexpectedly unstable and edgy. My hope is that the rest of the year will be more comforting especially that the winter won't start early and most of all that Fall will last a long time.
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This song describes perfectly how I'm feeling this morning. I'm sick and the rain isn't helping.
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I feel empty...well it's summer so it's understandable.
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For me the summer isn't just hot, but cruel because I'm trying not to be too Baudelairian, not to be too much of masochist and poetically self-absorbed. It's a challenge. I'm reading a great book, which puts a lot of what matters at the forefront of my existence, it's Little Bee by Chris Cleeve. It's very well written, but what impresses me most is that Cleeve has found a way not to talk about Africa, as a place out there, alien, sub or non human, but as a place where things ought to make sense and where people, orphans, or whoever else are just people struggling the complexities of their humanity. So far, it's deliciously complex and it's a blast!
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I'm trying hard to live as though my anemia wasn't affecting my life, but it is. The only way I was able to get out my apartment this weekend was to take a cab to go to my destination and to come back home, which is something I never do especially in such a beautiful day in Manhattan. What a waste! I feel like a dead woman walking.
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I'm feeling probably just like Tiger Woods is feeling at the moment as he is about to miss the cut at the British Open. I'm grinding, struggling to survive, not to lose it, whatever "it" is.
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I had a great Fourth of July Weekend ! It reminded me how important it is to turn off my laptop sometimes and to relax. Sometimes less is more.
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I'm dealing with a lot of crappy thing, excuse my French. So I will blog irregularly for a while. I mean hell when you starts getting dirt on your shoulders, it just invites more problems.
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I'm daring to take some time off this week-end. I'm braindead...
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I believe that in our time the hardest thing to find is balance. Everybody is talking about Michael Jackson and the media is, of course, one more time, overdoing it, because it's the only thing that it knows how to do in these cases. The saddest thing is that you realize very quickly that the show is about something else and that the deceased has been depersonified, objectified and that the feelings expressed by individuals who are, often too exhibistionistic or too manipulative (which doesn't mean necessarily that they are insincere) , are about the ones expressing them not the person who died. Tragedies don't have to become spectacles.
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I'm having a tough weekend so far...I'm struggling with so many issues that I wish I could just scream in the streets of Manhattan to let my frustration out instead of letting it build inside of me. Well, the good news is that all I have to do is to learn how to be more patient and master self-control. The bad news for me is that I'm not sure that I can do it.
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I'm almost done reading L'Elégance du Hérisson. It is taking me an usually great amount of time because I have no free time and because I have decided to make the experience last a little while. I'm at the end of the novel, I'm wondering if I'm love, in lust or just hypnotized by something unfamiliar, too peculiar not to be more than alright. That's the only subject I'm allowing myself to ponder, for now... I will finish it this weekend.
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It is more exhausting to work at home than in an office. I have been working from home for almost a week now and I am more tired than I was before. I'm refusing to accept that anemia is a real sickness so I'm blaming everything on the fact that I'm not as organized and focused as I should be. Apart from that, the weather in New York just sucks to say thing prosaically and bluntly. It feels like there was never any spring and that summer is cheating with winter because it is actually cold. I only have a simple wish right now; it is to find the strength to exercise, just a little bit, to feel useful physically. I have no energy. I can't focus. I feel like I live in a coffin. What a year!
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This week is another tough one for me so I won't post as much as I want to. I have so many things to do and an apartment to order. My anemia makes me feel like I weigh 500 pounds and like my brain is a thousand years old. I have just ordered a new computer and new "smartphone" so I'm in what I like to call a transitional period that hopefully will make my world and my work more technologically savvy. After I heard the news yesterday on the new Iphone, I was so happy I resisted the urge to get one last week. The trouble that I have one is that I don't see the point of getting one if I constantly need to worry about the fact that it is costing me way to more that it ought and that Apple will in the next month come up with something better. I think a phone company should do an Ad comparing the its product to the Iphone just like Apple does with pc with those persuasive commercials on TV, which make you want to get a Apple computer just to avoid having to deal with Vista and other silly Windows updates. That said, I'm going to get a Macbook Pro fairly soon, but I will wait another year to get an Iphone.
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I'm working from home today. I'm physically exhausted and I'm braindead. I have no energy. The fact that it is raining buckets in New York doesn't help. Anyway, I've started reading L'Elégance du Hérisson and I'm waiting to finish it and to digest it to write anything on it. In other words, I don't know whether I like it or not, it is a little bit like the first time you have sushi, you have to finish the meal before you decide whether you like raw fish.
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I've just realized that impatience has a lot to do with fear and that sometimes, it is closely related to self-derogation. I just got a copy of Muriel Barbery L'Élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog). I will read it tonight and probably finish it if it is half as good as the person who offered it to me says it is. In any case, I don't think I can get anywhere without patience, but at the same, what do I do with my quenching thirst for speed. My favorite song in High School was Let is Flow because at the time, I already knew that I had a problem with time, with letting go, with being Zen, may be that's why I liked my Judaism's class so damn much.
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My migraines have come back as they usually do at this time of the year so I'm taking a little break.
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I'm shutting up to take full advantage of Memorial Day.
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I'm trying hard to relax and to enjoy my weekend. But it is impossible because I keep anticipating next week's events. I'm obsessed with time. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like me. Anyway, I'm reading Hugo's Les Misérables for the first time in 13 years and it is still a great and fresh read.
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I'm currently reading Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley which is a book on the life and the death of his parents. It is a fun read even though it makes me wonder whether it is possible not to be mark by your parents's worst traits especially when you don't have their strength of characters what it takes to live with them.
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When I'm brain dead, surprisingly it becomes impossible for me to write in English, which explains why I haven't been posting as much as I want to. I'm suffering from chronic fatigue, which just drains all of my energy and makes it impossible for me to write bilingually because I have this awful sense of being near death because my brain has frozen. Luckily, I live in a city where getting a cab is easy and where you can do everything else on the net such as buy decent groceries. English may be my lazy language, but I have the feeling that in these times when it is difficult for me to find the energy to do what I want /have to do, I revert to French not to feel useless and dead.
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I have to say that I'm absolutely hating my first April in New York. The weather doesnt seem to be able to make up its mind about whether we are still in the winter or at the beginning of spring. Nevertheless, the great thing about New York is that even when it sucks, things are happening and when one loves movement as I do one just has to get over one's sour mood. I'm rereading the first volume of Beckett and I have to say that a part of me wonders if I should be reading them. I know that we live in a time when voyeurism is no longer a vice, but still, questions of privacy remain and of the intent of the writer remain unanswered.
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Well, I'm back after the longer hiatus I've taken since I started this blog three years ago. I took the time to get settled in New York and to work on the biggest project of my life, which is close to becoming a reality. The time has come for me to write more and to do it better. So I'm back and I promised to be better and to post as much as possible.
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I'm flying to Paris tomorrow to spend a few days in what remains for to me la capitale de l'allégresse before going to a warmer and more tropical Eden. This song by Jacques Dutronc describes perfectly my current state of mind and my mood. Things are going so fast around me that I have to stop and to remind myself to enjoy the good times. Anyway, since I feel like around everything around me " n'est qu'ordre et beauté, luxe, calme et volupté," I'm going to remain in semi-exile from this blog for a while. Happy Holidays to all of you and since I'm too obsessive not to write, I will post from time to time.
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