I'm gonna do a party in august, before leaving to canada.
And I'm starting to have an headache just to think about it.

Otherwise I wrote 3 pages out of 10.
For tomorrow.
Gogogo me ^^

And I realised I totally forgot to wish good luck to those in my flist who are having their finals.
Good luck to you all.
You can do it and just master everything.

Et au niveau ecriture, j'ai repris mes notes pour mon univers d'Eva Reed.
Un jour je reussirais à faire une nouvelle à partir de ces 36 drabbles et débuts de paragraphes.

Hey hey everyone.

Yesterday was totally nice and fun.

Nice because I paid 7€ for a haircut of love.
I went to the JLD Training Center (rue Cambon, just after the WHSmith) and got to choose between two cuts.
As I wanted something fun and something for the summer, I decided to be a model for the Summer 08 Collection : Juliette Cut.



To those of you who forgot, here is a picture of me in December



Of course, in January they were cut just below my chin and now, I took it a way further ^^

I really recommend you this Training Center 'cos the hairdressers are professionals who come to learn the new collection haircuts and refresh their memories on some techniques.
So it's not newbies learning to cut hair.
Being a JLD center, it's very chic, very cosy and being a hairsalon, it's very chatty, very friendly and all this in a professional manner.

One hour and a half later, I left the center, with my hair cut very short and I phoned snorkey to know what he was doing.
30 minutes later we were queeing at the Pepiniére Starbucks and he was phoning poulpette so she could come too.
We tried isabelle_lila several times but ended up with the answering machine.

At 7pm, we migrated to Saint-Paul in order to wait for Nicky and mimissato (and maybe Isabelle but we were not sure).
After we bought some food at a chinese takeaway, we went to the bar and ordered beers.
We waited for the quizz to start and had some nice conversation.
Of course, we lost the contest and were the last team (Brushing Violent FTW tout de même).
But we won some awesome red wigs and with the help of a fluorescent red stick, poulpette and I became, at first, a Cylon Raider, then the last Cylon.
Check out if someone got a red wig in the show, it maybe is the last Cylon.
We somehow recreated the Sam/Raider interaction, with poulpette as the Raider and me as Sam.
And just some you know, "Video killed the radio star" was the first video to be shown on MTV and Rhode-Island is the smallest state in the US.

Some pictures to come, once Nicky mail them to me :)

We ended the night by going to the Champ-Elysée and buying some ice-cream.
We ate while strolling down to Concorde and took our metro after saying goodbye.

My train was at 0'10am and I was home by 0'40am.

And that's it :)

( Oh and me, my new cut and an out of the bed look )

(House MD in French sucks)

Otherwise today was nice.
Old friends came by, ate with us and then I tried to study.
After then diner with some Pimm's.
And the problem with Pimm's is that you don't realize it is so hard on you.
Until you get up and need to stabilize yourself on the table ^^

Damn House MD in French really does sucks.

The good thing in this week Doctor Who, is that it was way better than expected after the trailer from last week.
Otherwise, it was, like tsaress said, a bit boring. Lots of running around.
Emotionnally it was nice to watch the Doctor and well, Martha was kinda ok.
But really, as it always come the day after the mindblowing emotional ride of BSG, it is always played down in my head.
I'd like to see how the end is used in further episodes.

In the meantime, I'm rewatching some Eureka episodes from the second season.
I finally saw the final episode "A night at GD" and am currently watching the "Noche de Suenos" episode.
I liked this one a lot.

And for Azh' and Isa info, I read Decadence.
No comment on this one girls.

Don't start me with this week's BSG episode.
I may go up in eloquent speeches or I may condemn some characters to the pit of Hell.
It's a rollercoaster ride of feelings, some good, some bad, but with BSG, you just never know which is what.
As usual, I blew me away and it makes me go mad to have to wait for a whole week before the next episode.

Spent a lovely afternoon with the girls, didn't eat too much nor spent that much money.
I resisted to the Mill's and Boon stack at WHSmith but had to spend money once I saw the sales at the FNAC.

3 CDs for 15€.
I usally overlook them 'cos they are CDs that ain't that old and I already have.
Except that .... this sale gave my 80's/90's fangirl heart a lovefeast.

So I bought
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Harry Connick Jr - She
Tanita Tikaram - Ancient heart

Currently trying to buy a ticket for the Montreal gig of the NKOTB.
Only problem is that having the ticket delivered in France would cost me 60$ XD
And I'm stuck. So I was wondering if any of my canadian or quebec friend could buy it for me and send it to me and I'll reimburse said person via bank money transfer.
Answer quickly so I'll be able to have a place ^^
(for the transfer, I can only do it on Wednesday as I have to do it at my bank)
Thanks in advance for your answer :)

Oh!
And I think I have been seen more than once laughing out loud on the streets or in the train.
The reason is Stephen Colbert's audiobook. Read buy him.
Oh the joy. Oh the laughing.

I'm fucking pissed at my father.
I looked at the space between the door and the pilar and as the door was able to pass, I sat in the car and closed it.
But I didn't took my weight into account therefore the door crashed into the pilar, scratching the door a bit.
My dad shouted a me for being stupid and then was waiting for an answer that didn't come and shouted even more. I told him that wether or not I was answering he would have shouted so there was no point in me using my tongue when really the end would be the same.
So I'm stupid and now he is not speaking to me and is in a fool mood.
Oh well, piss off if you want, it's not like I crashed the fucking car or anything.
It's just a small scratch that no-one can see unless scrutinizing this particular point.

Otherwise today was nice.
I went to La Foire de Paris and won a 512Mo SD Memory Card.
I also bought a computer head phone for 8€ and ate some food from the West Indies.

Et Pascal Sevran est mort et cette fois c'est pour de vrai.

Petit souvenir de télévision française.

I slept like a baby and took the breakfast in the garden.
Nice way to start a day.
We are going to the Foire de Paris today and then, tomorrow I'm out with the girls.
On Sunday JacquetSophie come to visit (it's Jacques and Sophie but they are like on item ^^) so I can't go to the parc with the friends of mine.
Nice weekend :)

Today I had lunch with mira_miracle who is leaving Poitiers for her German home.
Except this, nothing eventful.
I'm back in Paris and have read Blonde Attitude today.
Next book will be a serious one. Or so i hope XD

In the span of a week I have managed to read. To read books.
Ok, most of them are trash and are an easy read but who cares? I have read.
Picked up books for the pleasure of it. Not because they were on the list of academic books to read withing the year.

So what have I read?

Dance upon the Air - Nora Roberts
Heaven and Earth - Nora Roberts
Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
The Cattle Baron's Virgin Wife -
Personal Demons - Kelley Armstrong

My opinion on Nora Roberts is that if she writes 5 books a year like moiraj said, then it's understandable that her writing is so easily read and totally fantastic for the train. It's romance with some magic put in and everything seems to end well for the heroines at the end.

My opinion on Snakehead is that, like I said in a previous post, it is the best Alex Rider to have been published. All the previous books are very good and this one is the pinacle. A delight for the reader and a pleasure for anyone enjoying young adult lit.

The Harlequin novel was fab 'cos it's short, there is drama, love, arguments, sex and a wedding at some point.The wonder of this collections will never seize to amaze me and I need to investigate the genre on a monthly basis. They are not that expensive and I could easily buy two or three per month. Just as scientific research for the Nano09 of course ^^

As for the last Kelley Armstrong ... it was made of pure joy. There is a downsizing in the character department but it's not like it wasn't like that in the other books. I like the turns of events and she had me going at some points. Joy, if you like supernaturals and crime.

Rule number one : The hairdresser is french. So is the cook.
Rule number two : Even if you're a 22 year old virgin with no education, you use big words and act like you were 35 but run away if a man touches you.
Rule number three : Use and abuse of italian or latin expression.
Rule number four : Forget groin. Use loin.

I also read The Billionaire's Virgin Wife by Sandra Field.And I also finished The Greek Tycoon's Baby Bargain by Sharon Kendrick.

And next month I'll so buy "The Millionaire's Inexperienced Love-Slave" and "Desert King, Pregnant Mistress".

Une dame au fort accent portugais a pris mon rendez-vous pour un carré plongeant au Training Center Jean-Louis David.
Donc lundi aprém, je me fais couper les tifs pour moins de 10€, si la coupe qu'ils travaillent en ce moment me plait.
Sinon, on reschedule pour un autre jour.

Yesterday I woke up at 6h30, put stuff into my bag and went off to Celie's where we met before heading to the railway station.
There we met Vanessa and at 7h24 we were heading to Disney.

I was totally out fo it for the most part and if it wasn't for Vanessa who kept me awake, I would have crashed and slept through the day.

Once arrived, we directly went to the Parc and started the day by enjoying the hot sun and various activities.
I finally did the Buzz Lightyear one, which was lots of fun.
Also enjoyed the new attraction of Disney Studio called "The Terror Tower - Twillight Zone". I absolutly adore the Twilight Zone introduction with the show images :)
Totally loved the Aerosmith induced rollercoaster! I never did this one before and damn if it's not the best rollercoaster over at Disney!

But the highlight of the day definitly was the non payment of an extremely overpriced bill.
The "Ladies, I will ask you to leave your seats and to go outside without panicking please. This is a bomb aleter, if you don't mind leaving the restaurant" came along with our waiter and the bill. The manager who was telling us to leave told us not to bother paying and that right now the most important was to leave the premises. Therefore we did not pay.

For pictures of that day, please refer to the album of Clelie ( 1 & 2), Lea and to mine ( 1 & 2) :)

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Hier j'ai dormi à la maison, papoté avec ma maternelle et ce matin je suis redescendue sur Poitiers.
Passée à la MACIF j'ai decouvert que je ne peux etre couvert plus de trois mois et que pour renouveler il faut revenir en france.
Ma carte LMDE est a jour et il y a de grande chance que je passe par eux pour mes autres assurances.

Voila voila.
30 pages de plus à lire sur le Rep.Tcheque et un papier à planter dessus.

Anyone from my flist who is from Czech Republic or knows someone from there?
We are looking for information and would love having a local view on it.
Thanks =D

Disney was so cool.
The sun was there, the attractions were as nice as usual and we didn't pay the lunch bill which amounted to 80.50€
(bomb alert in the restaurant at the moment they slipped the bill on the table. the manager told us to get out and to forget about the bill)
Photos to be added later on.

(and I hate typing on an azetry keyboard when my fingers typped on a qwerty the whole weekend)

It was a fraking amazingly brilliantly great episode.
Full of stuff I love and with a cliffhanger of doom.
It's perfect in it's own frakking way and I'm just totally in love with it.
Oh damn this episode was great.

Les français!
Plus d'excuse !
Battlestar Galactica passe sur NRJ12 le jeudi à 20h45.
Bien sur, la qualité audio avec les voix française ne sera pas aussi bonne que la version originale, mais au moins, ça permettra de vous donner envie de regarder ça en VO ensuite.
En tout cas, c'est le coup de coeur du Telestar* de la semaine.

*seulement acheté car il y a Le Sourire de Monalisa avec.

I came to a decision concerning the 2 future Nanos.

The 2008 one will be about Zeus and Hera. Anyone having once come across my drabbles about them know that it's gonna be fun and lively and full of drunken gods and godess.
The 2009 one will be dedicated to trashlit. Something that one edited will be sent to Harlequin, just for the fun of it.

Tomorrow we go to Disneyland.
Hopefully I'll be less tired.

Tonite I'll finish the piece of fiction for Fofo's birthday.
Si quelqu'un a envie de beta une fic AU Draco/Hermione .... (benebu maybe?)

In case you were wondering what kind of litterature a stressed graduate school girl read .... check out the Nora Roberts books.
Trashlit. For The Win.
Like totally.
I'm currently reading L'île des 3 soeurs
It's so bad it's good dude.

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Prologue
Salem, Massachusetts, 22 juin 1692
Ce fut dans la penombre verte d'une forêt profond qu'elles se retrouvérent, une heure avant le lever de lune. Bientôt, la nuit la plus courte de l'année aller succeder au jour le plus long.
En ce jour de sabbat de Litha, il n'y aurait aucune fête ni grâces pour célébrer la lumiére et la chaleur. Ce solstice d'été tombait dans une ére d'ignorance et de mort.
La peur étraignait les trois sorcières.
- Avons nous tout ce qu'il nous faut?
Celle qui portait le nom d'Air tira sur sa capuche afin qu'on ne puisse distinguer une seule de ses boucles blondes.
- Ce qui nous avons fera l'affaire.
Terre posa le baluchon sur le sol. elle avai refoulé au plus profond de son âme son envie de pleurer et de fulminer contre ce qui avait été commis et ce qui devait être accompli. Elle inclina la tête, laissant retomber librement son epaisse chevelure brune.
- N'y a t-il pas d'autres façon de nous en sortir? demanda Air en posant la main sur l'épaule de Terre.
Toutes deux regardèrent la troisième sorcière, celle qui portait le nom de Feu.

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Et c'est juste la premiére page. J'ai hate de lire les 2 autres bouquins. (ai lu le second, en anglais. Je prefere de loin la version française. Elle est encore plus awful que l'anglaise)
Et le fait que le dernier cas fait en Consumer Behaviour soit sur les editions Harlequin n'a en aucun cas influencé mon envie de lire ces trucs là.

Anyway, Wednesday we went out for dinner and them we hooked up with José at the pub to watch the football game on big screen.
I was so happy Chelsea won =D
Drogba FTW :)
Sorry mira_miracle but well, Chelsea was just better.

As we are talking about football, does any of you guys now what happened to Sytchev ? (as in Sytchev, Sytchev, la la la la la !!!!!! *jumps all around*)

Now I'm waiting for Chloé to pick me up and take me to the airport to go to England :D
(Chloe picked me up and I arrived safely in England where I had a decadent weekend full of joy and friends)

Except for the previous sentence, I won't talk about how my weekend was, 'cos it'll be too long and I reviewed it for the most part anyway.

On Sunday, I left Hannah and Oxford to take the bus and go to London.
During the trip I finished the second book of the Nora Roberts trilogy I'm currently reading, and started Snakehead, the last Alex Rider adventure.
Arrived in London, went to Liverpool Street, ended up taking the coach to Tottenham Hale 'cos the Stansted Express wasn't starting from Liverpool Streeet for some obscure reason I haven't check out.
Arrived at the airport, checked in, bought a sandwich and some tea at the Starbucks, failed and forgot my tea at some point;
Bought the last Tiesto album (Element of Life remixed) and three highly non-intellectual books (The Greek Tyccon's Baby Bargain, The Cattle Baron's Virgin Wife and The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress) then boarded the plane.
I arrived in Poitiers one hour later and as I didn't have enough euros to pay a cab and that none of my friends with a car were in Poitiers, I came back by myself under a hot sun.
My backpack started to wear on my shoulders and my arms started to bloat (at which point I could be seen fisting the air to make the blood circulate a bit better); Arrived home 1 hour and fourty minutes after departure from the airport.
First thing I did before unpacking was taking a long cold heavenly shower.
Then I unpacked, went to school to check on my mail and dl different documents I needed for tomorrow's class.
Read some part of my weekend seen by my host, laughed because "dear god. it's me we are talking about." and felt somehow bad for said person because I had no idea and it was kinda mean.
Bought a kebab supreme (roughly, it's two kebab in one) and headed back home where I'm currently finishing Snakehead before working on my paper.

My feets are still awfully sore and probably won't support any heels for a week. And hopefully the weather will be nice and i'll be able to live with only flipflops 'cos I don't know how my feets will like the Converses or Kickers in their state. It's the "TG and walk under the sun with totally unappropriated shoes" effect.

Having finished Snakehead, I gotta say it's the best Alex Rider so far.
Need to talk about Yassen with someone now.
Azh', have you read it? It's out in paperback.


My groupmates never read trashlit or they wouldn't have given such a recommendation to Harlequin.
We recommend to diversify: Include new series (i.e. horror, suspense, drama)
1st because Harlequin novels are all about the drama so there is no need to add some more.
2nd because you can't write some Harlequin based on a horror story. That is just not the point.
3rd because there can't be any suspense on those novel. You know they end up married for life in the end even before you buy the book. The only suspense is when.
I will need to discuss it with Richard (it's his slide) tomorrow. And hopefully Richard will listen (which is not always the case).
And I may pop The Greek Tycoon Baby Bargain in his hands so he'll discover the genre for himself.

It makes me think of a discussion we had in last week class and which was very interesting. We were working on a case and at some point the question rose.
Can you consider an artist or a group (weither it's classical music, pop or whatever else) as a brand?
If yes, when does it becomes a brand?
Or is a brand only for objects and not for human being?

I claimed that it could be considered as a brand when you could sell only on their name and when the name of the group or artist as deposed as such.
I feel that there is a need of a law biding agreement to accept the fact that a group is a brand.
And a classical music band from Russia which is only known in the region and by classical music fans can not be a brand in my terms.

Poll #1182710
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Can a music band or artist can be seen as a brand?

If yes, when and why do you think so ?

If no, why so?

What should I read first?

Pour vous Boris c'est