fun with pictures!

No updates, not because I don't like you anymore, but because I am very, very boring. I can even be boring in Paris. Also, I feel guilty updating without pictures, which situation could be resolved if I would just take pictures, but whatevs. But fear not, I've come up with an only mildly ridiculous solution.

Google image search! (Less pandas in mine. But I feel like my life could always use more pandas, anyway.)

This is what I've looked like for the past week (including Asian):

which is why nothing interesting. But today, in a great excursion, I went over to La Poste. (It just means the post office, but doesn't it sound much better in French?)

(I wish the one I went to was this cheery.)

I needed these:

But, you know, in French. (Actually, I think I've used these stamps before.)

A reasonably accurate representation of the typical line inside La Poste:

So those postcards that I'm working on sending, you better appreciate them, because in terms of hardships it was something akin to a Compostela pilgrimage to get them.

Leaving La Poste, I encountered a man pushing a giant cart full of plastic bags down the middle of Boulevard Montparnasse. His shoes were wrapped in several layers of bags too, and he had a big sign on the side of the cart, which read, in French: "I am a doctor and scientist from San Francisco. I can blow up concrete with microwaves."

No Google image search for him, because it's really hard to find a picture of someone blowing up concrete with microwaves that would really do him justice.

Anyway, after I left the metro on the way home, I walked by the French version of this guy:

It was kind of disturbing.