25 things…
I’m surprised I haven’t done this yet, given its explosive roots on Facebook all them months ago. So, things about me, my thoughts and my habits, tagged by Gingerella. As with any new blog, I don’t have many people to tag <insert small violin>, but what better way for you to know a little more about me if you stumble across here, and consider yourself tagged.
French coffee…
Mornings at my desk.
When I came to France, I expected many things to be different. Never did I anticipate just how coffee-obsessed my fellow french colleagues would be.
Picture my routine if you will. I get into the office at 8.30am. Walking down the corridor, I see empty office on my left, empty office on my right, empty office on my left, empty office on my right… you get the picture. I can hear people though, and the artistic fluttering of French conversation. How are you this morning? Great thanks. Did you have a nice evening? Yes thanks. Let’s go grab a coffee and talk about it.
“Big” is not something you’d use to describe the characteristics of our coffee room. Regardless, it has at times, an inconceivably high density of people per metre square.
False start…
Funny, I have a new year’s resolution to start and maintain a fresh blog (see previous post) and then Mac decides it’s time to go to the repair shop because of an incompetent graphics card. That is my justification for this 23 day gap since my last, first and only post. Not a good start!
Without a laptop to consume my every free minute and ounce of attention cocooned in my flat, I was honestly confused as to how I might amuse myself. As someone who took up photography a couple of years ago, I figured I would dust off the SLR and get stuck in again.
Most of the time, I’m on the photo sections of National Geographic and The Guardian. What I find interesting with journalism photography is just how well they convey the beauty, the excitement, or the tension and the agony of what’s happening in the world. Most other times, I’m on Flickr. What I find interesting here is the infinite pool of imagination and creativity, seeing things from a different perspective on, most interestingly, mundane subjects.
