Quote of the day

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