Ballbuster Blockbuster: le Retour de la Chine!

That's right...we got it! We got it! WE GOT THE APARTMENT ON RUE DE LA CHINE!!! (pictures will arrive as of August 15th, when we move in!)

Dacnar and Nardac spent two minutes jumping like idiots by the side of the Seine after receiving the telephone call. Then ran off to Musee D'Orsay to drink some beer!!! Phoned everybody in Paris to invite them for impromptu party at friend's apartment tonight. Then looked at some art, just Printemps de Jardin, Olympia, Boating Parties, and other priceless treasures seen in textbooks before, before running off, again, to St. Germain des Prés, for a quick look at Gainsbourg's house on Rue Verneuil. Gainsbourg is Gainsbourg. Happy to finally enjoy being tourists for a bit.

forgot to mention that we went to Pere Lachaise Cemetery the other day, highlight of which was seeing Gilbert Becaud's grave (awesome french singer...L'Indifference is lion of a song), and accidentally saw Gericault and Allan Kardec's grave as well. Kardec, thanks to my old job looking up occult influences on modern art I know this, was the leading writer for the Spiritualist movement. His crypt is incredible...like miniature stonehenge with a bust of him within. Written on it is, "born, died, born again, never stopping in upwards progression, as is the law." There were some weird fanatics standing beside, touching his head and shaking. Was funny because just behind the crypt was the punchline: an official statement by the Mayor's Office about how, in convention with the philosophy of Spiritualism, it was not necessary, nor useful, to touch the crypt since the body retains no energy after death. Like mayor saying "DUH, STUPID, DON'T TOUCH." And, and Jimbo's grave is sooo overrated...even the policeman looks bored.

oh, and drinking 8 glasses of water a day makes your skin look better...but it makes you pee too much. I don't like feeling like I have to pee every half an hour. that sucks.

have to warn everyone that will be going somewhere with no internet for the next week...so dropping offline. But, don't worry...will have even more grumpy and frustratingly idiotic tales to recount.