Movies watched: 11 (The Cleaner; Superman; Bob Trevino Likes This; Austenland; Deep Cover; Star Trek (2009); Star Trek: Into Darkness; Ghostbusters; Ghostbusters: Afterlife; The Summer Book)
Recipes tried: 9 (Frittata di pasta; Sweet Corn Gazpacho; Pesto Pork Tenderloin; Lemony Zucchini Pasta (with cottage cheese); Grown-up Salisbury Steak; Skillet Hot Honey Chicken; Coconut Rice with Shrimp and Corn; Roasted Asparagus with Savory Butter Sauce; Stir-Fried Pork and Plums with Fresh Herbs)
Recipes I liked from the above: 7
Recipes that were inedible: 1 (the cottage cheese one)
School meetings before school started: 5
Emergency meetings once school started because someone is moving to a new job: 1
Health appointments: 10
Vaccines: 2
Days without a washing machine: 24 (9 more to go before a new one comes!) 🙁
Electrician appointments to fix the outlets in my kitchen: 1
Air fryers that broke: 1
Dates: 1
Unexpected geeky jokes I appreciated: 1
Offices I have lost access to: 1
Temporary offices I can use for a couple of hours a week: 1
National Days Celebrated: 5 (Pepperoni Pizza Day; Dumpling Day; Blasphemy Day; Star Trek Day; National Ghost Hunting Day)
New classes started: 3
Stand-up comedy club meetings: 1
Books finished: 4
What I’m watching: The Guilded Age; Alien: Earth; John Oliver; Bob’s Burgers; TaskMaster; South Park; Strange New Worlds; Upload; Outlander; The Serpent Queen; Acapulco; The Morning Show; The Simpsons; Only Murders in the Building; Lowdown; Assassin; Colbert; Seth Meyers; Jimmy Kimmel, once
Trips to Paris: 1
In Paris:
Days we had to book someone to pick us up at the airport because of a transit strike: 1
Days we went to the wrong Sorbonne campus but then had to stay there because my IBS-D decided that I had to stay in the bathroom for an hour while Melissa patiently waited and we missed the conference lunch: 1
Nice lunches we were able to have afterwards: 1
Great presentations we gave after lunch: 1
Servings of duck: 2
Servings of lamb: 2
Servings of beef, which I usually don’t eat: 3
Crepes: 2
Lemon tarts: 3
Creme brulees: 2
Pain au chocolat: 2
croissants: 3
eclairs: 1
desserts with pistachios: 4
tabuleahs: 2
eggplant dishes: 2
Servings of house-made pistachio ice cream at a lovely Lebanese restaurant: 1
Drinks in the courtyard of the History Museum: 1
Champagne-filled dinner cruise conference events, complete with a sexy singer who sang right to me a few times: 1
Webpages for Paris museums that were easy to use: 0
Museums explored: 5 (Consiergerie, Louvre, d’Orsay, Catacombs, Cluny)
Fairy Doors found: 1
Times I watched Foucault’s Pendulum, which proves the Earth turns on its axis, and wondered why we’re still debating the shape of the Earth: 1
Perfect Turkish restaurants for when we needed vegetables desperately: 1
Times Melissa and I realized that, in packing light, we had brought purses that were too big to enter the Catacombs with & we bought smaller utility purses in a shop by the Louvre: 1
Churches explored: 2 (St. Germain, Notre Dame)
Times we discovered, by ranking them, that we are picky bitches when it comes to cathedrals–Notre Dame wasn’t in either of our top 5 lists: 1
Used scarves bought from a kilo store: 3
Nights we put on a heating treatment for our tired feet and watched Austenland, which Melissa had not seen before: 1
Nights we watched Emily in Paris, which Melissa also had not seen: 3
Nights we did a wine tasting in the Louvre wine caves with just six other people (8 wines; 8 cheeses): 1
Times we were in a place frequented by great writers of old (Deux Magots, etc.): 2
Times I tried really hard to fall down, but managed to catch myself, resulting only in bruising: 2
Times my IBS was so bad that I threw up a couple of times and then found a massively bad bruise on my hand that must have come when running to the bathroom: 1
Times we tried to go to Shakespeare and Co, only to find a line around the block, so we went to the English-language bookstore near our flat for gifts.
Meals at Angelina’s: 2 (one was our “birthday” dinner, since we hadn’t gotten to celebrate either of our birthdays together. It was essentially a high tea, with champagne).
Minutes until we wouldn’t have been able to place the order for our birthday dinner: 4. Our server ran to put it in!
Times we discovered a closer entrance to the metro: 1
Times it took wandering around before we realized we could not exit through that if we were on line 12: 3
Days we left Paris right before a massive strike that would have meant we couldn’t leave: 1
