i brought back the apples in stereo's rainfall this weekend for my hannah playlist. it rained intensely for most of the day saturday, and it was great for sleeping in the afternoon. it was a funny remidner of the rain and fog in france, which i've revisited rereading the stories i wrote during that time. france has seemed closer talking to katja about the sparkling eiffel tower casting weird shadows in her kitchen and telling people how to dial 011 33 then the number.
it rained again today, so i listened to rainfall on the way home from work. i had a french flavored day today too. i went to the opnet shareholders meeting, since it was nearby (in bethesda) and the founders, two brothers, were whispering to each other furtively in french. after the meeting and presentation, i caught alain (the one with the flashy striped jacket) at the front of the room criticizing the pastries with his mother (meh, pas terrible. degeulasse, quoi!) and i told them they should be nicer to the bakers. realizing they'd been caught, they pulled me into their conversation, in which my actionnaire/actuaire joke fell flat. i guess corniness translates all too well. at one point, one of the other major stakeholders brushed by, saying 'quit speaking in french!' so angry. it was funny, maybe just because he had a moustache. maybe he thought we were talking shit about him. maybe he was the one who baked the sub-par pastries.
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