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I've moved.

Reading

Reading is great, yes? So is working out, yes? But what about reading and working out at the same time? I think it's ridiculous. How do you concentrate on what you're reading? How can you stablizie your head and reading material to bounce at the same time so you don't lose your line? Maybe it's just me... I ADD totally when I am on the bike and I end up reading the same two sentences for about the entire time on the bike. I just don't get how people can read and work out at the same time.

First Snow!

I was lucky to get a few runs in today. The weather is FREEZING, well, today was because of the crazy wind. I must get a face mask. However, the day after the storm was beautiful. Some of the runs were quite nice with powder, but some were squeaky with man made snow. It's really nice to be able to walk across the street to go skiing now, instead of having to drive an hour and a half plus. Anyhow, here are some pictures.

The first is of the lift at Heavenly, and the second is on the ride from the Gondola.
Check out the lake.

TV Movies

A random thought for today. Why is it that whenever there is a movie showing on TV, it's always the part that you've already seen?

Pretty Precipitation

It's snowing. Finally. And it's really pretty. I'm gonna taste some hopefully on Tuesday after the storm.

The little things inside your head

Hitch hiking-

In Europe it's a great and safe way to get around cheap. In America, it's a different story.. you gotta watch out for your safety. I passed a hitchhiker in Placerville tonight and almost stopped. I would have loved the company in the car, but something in me clicked and said keep going! What is it that said this to me? I find it frustrating to be held back from possibly great opportunities, by so many things inside our heads telling us what to do. I think that everyone should try one of theses things that you're not supposed to do every so often. But being in the aware, of course.

I'd like to share one of my recent experiences. I was on a train in Morocco and the guy sitting next to me offered me chocolate and I immediately said no, without thinking. He ended up being a great friend and gave me the coolest birthday I'd ever had. He welcomed me into his home and I met his friends, ate with them and experienced part of what it was like to be Moroccan. It was awesome.

So I encourage you to try it sometime. Let me know how it goes.

New dwelling jeeper creepers in SLT

Since I've been back home, I don't really have many cool things to blog about. So throughout my day I find certain things pretty funny or weird or scary that I want to write about, however, I cannot remember any of them. The only thing that I can remember, and it's because it just so happened to happen as I was on the internet on my blog, is....

My fireplace in SLT keeps opening and closing by itself. And it's freaking-me-out.

The wind also is blowing and the pine trees are so overgrown that they are touching the roof, as well as dropping nice loud pinecones all over the roof. It sounds like someone is breaking into my place from every direction and room.


Onto other things, I watched an episode of Nip Tuck the other day and it was pretty damn good. I never thought I'd actually get into it, but I think I'll watch it again... only b/c christine told me what day it airs.

Souvenirs que j'entends de ma tête

Sorry for the boring entry today, but I must say,
Je ne suis plus à Paris et je le manque beaucoup!

It's been pretty easy adjusting to American life. I still do weird things like go to "www.google.fr", utilise les numeros francais, and other stuff. Also however, little things really make me think about being back there. For example Blogger keeps showing everything in French!! Why?! Also, riding BART made me think of the nasty and depressing RATP.

Bart vs. RATP
Listening to my French playlist on my ipod, well, obviously reminds me of many little things.
My playlist (you can skip this part b/c it will probably be boring for you since only I have these memories):

Emmène-moi avec toi (Perle Lama) - Heloise singing in the car
Ford Mustang (Serge Gainsbourg) - Taxi ride back from somewhere with G and she starts singing along with the radio
Unfaithful (Rihanna) - EVERY cafe, and Said knowing all the lyrics.
Love Generation (Bob Sinclair) - ClubMed, SPAIN, and me getting Lauren to like the song
Samba de Jamiero (Bellini) - some bar in Madrid
Forever Young, Techno Remix (Alphaville) - standing in line at McDonald's at Gobelins. Who plays techno remix's at Macdo's seriously?
Tu diras que estoy loco (UPA Dance) - Filip absolutely LOSING IT in the car
Aiguise comme une lame (NTM) - Rodolf and his buddies rapping and dancing in G's kitchen. Hilarious.
I Hate You So Much Right Now (Kelis) - Nada downloading this song randomly one day. Somehow it just stuck in my memory.
Superstition (Stevie Wonder) - The road trip we took to Italy. We didn't have much music, and we played Sylvain's Motown CD an insane amount of times.
World, Hold On (Bob Sinclair) - Corcoran's in the 18th.
Call On Me (Eric Prydz) - pregaming at Jon's friend's house.
Make Your Own Kind of Music (Mamas and Papas) - waking up every morning to G listening to this.
Un Autre Monde (Telephone) - Bal des Pompiers. We heard this song EVERYWHERE. Nada singing it on the phone to Isa. Every french friend hating it.
Ca, c'est vraiment toi (Telephone) - Hearing this everywhere too. Me explaining to Emily (Queen) about it...
Un Gaou A oran (Magic System) - Said telling me this is Arabic and singing it in the JEWEL (Said's car).
Starlight (Muse), I am the resurrection (Stone Roses), Monster (The Automatic), Nature's Law (Embrace) - Driving in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland.

Je le manque beaucoup! Even though you guys don't read this, thanks for the email Said. I miss you and Helo a lot.

Morocco Pictures

And here's the slideshow of Morocco.

(Pretty much I am too lazy to type out what happened. Maybe one day I will. But for now, just click the picture to see a description of it. As always, comments welcomed.)