you spin me right round
i am currently chilling in the lobby of “le beach residence”, hoping beyond hope that the maid will actually bring us fresh towels today and maybe even get rid of our full trash can. it seems that it has been difficult for “le beach residence” to mobilize their cleaning forces, or even just hand us new towels, but then again this is france, and everything runs on its own imaginary schedule.
to make my wait more enjoyable, i snagged a nutella-filled beignet from the patisserie across the street. it is gooey, dense, and satisfying. some precious old french man, whose face seems to be deflating with age, was asking me if there is anyone working at the front desk. i told him i didn’t know, so he eventually shuffled his plaid shirt and high-waisted pants back out onto the street. now every so often i’ll see him pass by the big glass doors of the residence. i wonder what he wants.
today michelle and garrett and i leave for a three-day weekend in amsterdam. i am very excited. garrett’s dad’s friend kathleen is putting us up for the weekend, being incredibly accommodating. our flight gets in at midnight, and we were asking her if she would rather have us come straight to her place and get everything set up, or if she wanted to just deal with us in the morning in which case we’d just stay out all night. kathleen say: oh come whenever you want, it’s not a problem, i’m use to being up at odd hours with my work, please, whatever works for you! coming off of three weeks of hearing “it is not possible” from everyone in france, “it is not a problem” is a revelation.
last night we played on a french playground near our classroom. spinning on the spinny thing, and climbing on the weird tour eiffel-shaped rope tower. no one telling us how to be, no one saying, don’t drink wine on top of the monkey bars. a moste diverting way to pass an evening.
BONUS: this is the trailer for tsai ming-liang’s lastest film “visage”, which i saw at cannes last week. no one else seems to like it, and disgruntled people were streaming out of the premier in the grand lumiere, but i enjoyed it. i’m sure it will get arthouse distribution in the states, if not for the fact that it’s exceedingly confusing, then for the fact that it was in competition at cannes this year.
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