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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde

Messy France

While looking at different newspapers from different countries today, I noticed one thing : people over the world seem to think France is at war or something. Well, let me tell you, it's not that bad; I mean, yeah, cars burn, that's not good. But seriously, in real riots, there are deaths every day, and you count them more by dozens than one by one. In real war, the military is involved. In real emergency context, women are afraid to get out because they might get raped.
I'm not afraid. I haven't seen anymore soldiers than before. I'm very much alive, thank you. There are indeed things shocking, but it's not necessarely what you see. What is shocking is some of our politicians are all surprised about this, and pretty much saying "Why are all those immigrants mad at us after all we've done for them?" The thing is, they don't want to admit they have done nothing for those people, and that's what they're mad today. Jacques Chirac, ten years ago, went on campaign to become president, and was elected because he promised to solve the problem of the huge gap between social classes. He has done nothing, and today, all he can do is say how lucky we all are to live in such a wonderful country. Wonderful, my ass. The percentage of unemployed immigrants is a lot higher than of nice white people.
I don't really know how this is all going to end, but I'm pretty sure that when things calm down, our politicians will forget all about the current problem, and go back to helping the poor rich families, and give them another tax cut.
Thanks for reading.

Quote of the day
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Procrastinating

Did you ever wonder why it's in the moments you have the most time that you do the less? I have just spent a three day week-end (yeah, because Novembre 11th is free in France, to celebrate how Europe managed to kill a few million people in just four years) doing absolutely nothing. It's not like I don't have anything to do :
1) I have to study in general, in order to get better grades and be a little higher in my class.
2) I have to learn my part for the theater show in two weeks (yeah, two weeks, that's awfully close).
3) I have to write my book, so I can become rich anf famous, and so people might be interested in reading this blog.
4) I have to tidy up my room (did I ever mention I'm possibly the messiest person to ever walk on this planet?)
And what did I do all week-end? I read (a lot, more about that later), I went shopping with my flatmate and my sister, I called my friends, I slept, I watched TV, and especially E.R. (Carter is gone for good! I can't believe it!). All in all, my mother would say I've been a very bad girl.
Well, that just means the coming two weeks are going to be hell. And I do mean hell. As in totally not heaven. I have so much to do and so little time. I guess that's just what happens when you grow up. We I was younger, I felt bored most of the time. Now I'm hoping I have time to be bored.
Now, onto books. I read Uptown Girl by Olivia Goldsmith. You just have to read it. At least, you do if you're a girl. If you're a bioy, it might just bore you. If you're not into romance, i have nothing to recomand for you, so you might want to move on to the next paragraph. It's the story of a thirty year old woman looking for Mr Right and only seems to find Mr Wrong (surprise, surprise!). Not to screwed up the end for you, but this one more heir to the wonderful Pride and Prejudice, so you can guess yourself who she ends up with. What I love with those books is that you know exactly how they'ere going to end. I understand that to most people, that's a reason not to enjoy them, but hey! I like them.
On other matters, I think I just understood why nobody visits my blog. It's written up there my blog ID is number 15 799 843. That means there are at least fifteen million seven hundred and ninety nine thousand eight hundred and forty three other blogs out there for people to choose from. And that's only blogger. Then, there's live journal and all the other blogging ressources out there. No wonder people don't care. The one comforting thing is that since nobody reads this, I can go really crazy. I mean, it's not like anyone cares.
On this particularly happy note, I'll let you get on with your lives.

Quote of the day
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Birthadya Girl... Not Anymore

I turned 20 last Saturday, and amazingly, I felt absolutely nothing. My birthdays are usually very important for me, it's the time of the year I look forward to three months in advance. I used to bring candies at school and give them to everyone wishing me a happy birthday. Well, for a start, I wasn't in school for my birthday this year, and also, I totally wasn't looking forward to it. It's weird, though not so bad, since it wasn't that fun at all in the end.
The best present is the one I bought myself. I got a brand new laptop computer, it's really awesome. One problem though is that I still don't have internet in my flat, so I'm really not getting far. I can put my lessons on it, though, which forces me to study a bit more than I did last year.
My mother got me a cooking book for students, with cheap recipes that you can do without an oven and a thousand special ingrdients that nobody in college can afford.
My father helped me in buying the computer, and my siblings got me nice jewlery.
The big surprise for my birthday is that my grand parents came (well, it was supposed to be a surprise, but I totally expected it.) It was nice to see them, but they stayed with me for three days, and in the end, it got very annoying. They're very much your typical grand parents, thinking you're still five years old, and I wanted to yell all along "Hello? You're here to celebrate my 20th birthday!" Seriously. How can they think I still enjoy them affectionally pinching my cheek? In what kind of world do grand parents live?
Plus, my grand father was being really annoying about computers. I explained him how gerat it is to have internet, and be able to communicate very fast with people one the other side of the world, and all he could answer is that 50 years ago, they were fine without computers. Hello? Fifty years ago, people died in hospital! How is that good? Plus, if in fifty years' time, they tell me I can do things I couldn't when I was 20, I'm in! For example, if, say, we can go on vacation on the moon, why would you refuse on the simple reason that you couldn't fifty years ago and were fine? That's just very stupid if you ask me.
Whatever. I'm rambling.
On another topic (which is actually the one this blog is supposed to be about), now that I have a computer, I can write all the time! Which means I might actually put another short story up soon (if I find something interesting to write about, that is).
Enough rambling for today, I've got to go in class.

Quote of the day :

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

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This is one of my favorite quotes. If only everybody could live by it, the world would be a way less stressful place.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
J. Plauger