List

People keep asking me what I've been doing so here's a list of what I thought I was going to do and what I did instead:

-Today, my plan was to go get falafel in the Marais and then go to the Louvre (it's open late on Weds.) with some friends from school. Instead, I walked around the Marais all afternoon with an old friend, and catching up was wonderful. We hopped into some great book stores (on art book store had some David Shrigleys), some designy stores, some clothing stores, one very hip children’s hair cut place. The Marais is awesome. Then we just wandered around the third, and ended up at my favorite-the Pompidou! It was just getting quiet as we got there, so we did one floor and then left because I need to study.

-Yesterday I was going to go to the D’Orsay, but I actually walked around the 6th with a prof from NYU and got to see where Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein hung out. I was all over that--the rain only made it seem more romantic.

-The day before I was going to go to the Pompidou. Instead, I walked along the seine with some friends, and wandered across to the 7th, walked under the Eiffel Tower. Also raining.

-Sunday I was going to go to brunch in Montmartre, but instead I wandered around I don't know where with a group from school. We ended up at Angelina's and got hot chocolate and pastries...and ate them in the Tuileries.

-Saturday I was going to go to the Catacombs. Instead I went to Chantilly, and it was awesome! There’s a huge chateau there (it’s where the Duc de Berry’s illuminated manuscripts are). Chantillians (?) are really into animals I guess, because the horse stables were as big as the chateau and there were statues of dogs everywhere. There was also a few bad things, like 2 lion skins...yuck.

Ok so written down that looks like a lot. You can see I have lots of grand ideas that don’t end up happening. It’s ok. I’ll make it to the Louvre eventually.