Archive for May, 2008
Au Revoir to France
Saturday, May 31st, 2008I say au revoir to Montpellier today. The last few days have been a good time with my friends here (pool parties, Maroon 5 concert, 3 hour dinners, etc). I gave a 30 minute exposé to my class yesterday about my time in Sudan, speaking in French, which was more like in Frenglish, […]
The After Funk
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008I’m sitting in my room looking blankly out the window. The day is pretty drab. The weather is cloudy; it’s lukewarm both out and inside. I’ve skipped school, again. (It gets easier the more you do it.) My indie playlist is on repeat on my computer and the music echoes […]
Paris II
Saturday, May 24th, 2008It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in Paris and I’m sitting cosy in my rented weekend apartment watching French Idol, or “Novelle Star” and laughing. They are down to the final five contestants and aside from not one of them having any talent, they all put on such kitschy, melodramatic performances typic of France that […]
So this is Jet Setting
Monday, May 19th, 2008I just got back from a raucous 24 hours in NYC. It was the most impulsive thing I’ve ever done and worth every cent. Here’s what went down.
On Friday, I was IMing with a good friend of mine, Marshall, who lives in Austin. He told me he was taking a surprise […]
Bauer in NYC
Monday, May 19th, 2008Sunday morning I woke up early, about 7am, damn jetlag, and couldn’t sleep. My friends were all crashed and I knew I had a few hours minimum before they awoke. Our general routine is to brunch about noon. I stayed at my friend Cody and Judson’s apartment in Manhattan. Cody recently […]
“Don’t you think PDA in Paris is so romantic…”
Monday, May 19th, 2008I woke up early that brisk morning with her lying beautiful next to me. It was May in Paris and the weather had come around but the crowds had not, ingredients for a perfect evening the night before within the city of lights.
Before I continue, let me first state that although the theme of […]
Anticipating Paris
Friday, May 16th, 2008It was 1:30 in the morning on a Monday night. I was leaving for Paris in ten hours for a one-day meet up with a friend I knew from the states, and I was tired from my weekend road trip. That wasn’t stopping me because I was in a room full of girls […]
C’est La Vie
Monday, May 12th, 2008This last week I went on a five-day road trip with three other friends (pictured left to right - Miquel from Spain, Jocke from Sweden, Ana from Spain and I) through Southwest France. On Wednesday, we rented a car and a GPS, burned a bunch of road trip cd’s, packed it full of junk […]
The Fly Away Birds
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I live in an oasis of sorts. In the middle of Montpellier, a mostly cobble stone downtown and concrete metropolis, sits my house, which is a guesthouse that the owners rent to me in the backyard of the main house. They also have two small apartments on the side of their house that […]
