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[darcydodo]

Hmm. Met some other people who will be here over the summer. Good thing. Met, in fact, the person who is my neighbor. Also good thing. Realized just how much less fun it actually is playing "I have never" with people you don't know, despite that fact that you don't know any of the answers in advance. Not such a good thing. Played the longest game of "I have never" in my entire life: good thing, and also, actually, good in that while it was amusing, it didn't manage to uncover my "little secret" (no, I don't announce the fact that I'm not straight right off to everyone and anyone, because I don't know how it'll be received), since lots of girls have kissed another girl, and nothing else more specific was asked.

(Another, less fun, drinking game, that we never played at Oxford: goes by various names, but involves cards, and different cards have different forfeits. Kings, add a rule, queens, do an I have never, etc. This eventually led to I have never, 'cause we agreed it was a better game, by and large.)

Wanted a second hamburger, but only got one; good thing, from point of view of my digestion problem, bad thing, from point of view of still being vaguely hungry. Lots to drink: probably a good thing from any way you look at it. :)

Turns out that the Matrix came out on May 16, not will be out on June 16th, which wychwood pointed out to me; this means that I can probably see it this weekend. Since it's a three-day weekend (yippee!), may go to Giverny; should really get out of Paris, because just how much can one wander around the city? OK, lots, but I'm boring and don't know where to go. Suggestions always welcome, and I may even take them (next weekend, if not this one).

Not actually drunk, despite my mood icon; vaguely dizzy, but I could have masses more and be fine. Just can't type properly any more on first go. ;) I was commended on how hardcore I am. ("You look so square, Darcy, but really...") This is, of course, a very jaded compliment, but you know, I'll take 'em where I can get 'em.

ETA: Given that I was at least partially drunk, my vaguely-English accent came to the fore, as it is wont, and was commented on. I do not understand why this happens when I am drunk. I thought one's native accent was supposed to emerge when one is less than sober!

Comments

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

hi darcy! sorry i haven't been commenting on your unusually long posts. (i have been reading, though.) i guess i'm just not quite sure what to say about your wild parisian lifestyle, except that i hope you continue to have fun. :)

louis

[darcydodo]

You're perfectly well allowed not to comment on my posts. You're equally well allowed not to read them in the first place, if they get at all boring! :) They're mostly just for my own benefit, and anyone who wants is welcome to peek over my shoulder... it's the whole 'keeping a vacation diary' resolution that's never actually worked in the past 'cause somehow pen and paper are just so passé. ;)

[liv]

You managed to play an entire game of I have never without coming out?! That's pretty impressive. There's usually at least someone who's trying to work out who's not straight.

Though the whole not knowing how it'll be received thing I find somewhat depressing. In fact, I'm thinking of posting something to that effect.

[darcydodo]

There's usually at least someone who's trying to work out who's not straight.

Uhh, I think that someone would usually be you? ;) Anywya, as I think I said, one person did "I have never kissed a girl," but half the people drank to that. I understand it to be a quite common thing to do. *grin*

[liv]

I think that someone would usually be you?
Er, no, given I have never actually played I have never...

[liv]

Things to do in Paris:

1. You absolutely must go to the Musée d'Orsay.

2. Buy bookies from the little cute booksellers along the Seine

3. Go to La Défense, preferably at sunset. It's not your typical neo-classical Paris architecture, but it is quite stunning in itself.

4. Go to the Rue des Rosiers and eat the tasty food that is for sale there.

5. Cross over the Mirabeau bridge.
Sous le pont Mirabeau
Coule la Seine
Ni temps passé
Ni amours reviennent

6. Fall in love and kiss the person in the kissing seats on the Pont Neuf. (OK, that last one might be a bit difficult to arrange, but I'm sure you can use your ingenuity.)

[darcydodo]

Go to La Défense

Oh, that's the cube thingy. :)

4. Go to the Rue des Rosiers and eat the tasty food that is for sale there.

Did so today, thank you, and very tasty indeed, but someone should give me a bit more sense than I currently have. Saturday was really not the best time to go. ;) Maybe I'll go back tomorrow...

5. Cross over the Mirabeau bridge.

I think one of Canteloube's Chantes d'Auvergne is about said bridge. And I could read the poem. Cool. :)

[liv]

And I could read the poem
That poem is much in my mind at the moment. I'm toying with the idea of doing a sort of meditative piece on it, but it's probably not going to happen. Because I'm not very good at that kind of thing, so it would probably end up being tacky, and because I have no time.

Games

[chele74.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you haven't gotten roped into playing tarot. That's what Nathalie and her family always strong us into playing when we're there. I'd explain it to you, but other than the fact that it has a special extra large deck, I can never remember the rules. All I know is that when I try to be assertive, I lose big time. That, and her father is a total master of such thing. A sly man, indeed.

Ahh, France.

::smiles::

Re: Games

[darcydodo]

I've heard of tarrochi, which uses actual tarot cards, but I presume that's not what you're talking about. There were some people playing cards in the market today, maybe they were playing your tarot game? I dunno. :)

[liv]

IIRC, tarot as a game is basically like Hearts, but with the extended tarot deck. There are some quite complicated rules about partnering though, which I never managed to learn properly because the people who were teaching me were really thick. (In fact, on reflection, since they were so thick, it's possible that they taught me the entire game wrong anyway.)

[liv]

my vaguely-English accent came to the fore
*tongue-corruption thoughts*

[elemy.livejournal.com]

The drunk icon is very sweet though, you're quite right to use it, even if you're just a bit in-between :)