I found where I should move!
by joon
American Cities That Best Fit You: |
| 60% Honolulu |
| 60% Las Vegas |
| 60% Los Angeles |
| 55% San Francisco |
| 50% Atlanta |
Apparently accordind to this it's where I should live. Is there something wrong with me!? Well Honolulu ...I don't know. LAS VEGAS? berk, no thanks! Los Angeles! No thanks except if I act in my favourites director's movies! Atlanta...uuh, I don't think so! And San Francisco could be the one but no thanks!
Posted on August 29, 2005 | Comments (2)
Summer goals / Resolutions de l'ete
by joon
Mes resolutions pour cet ete...certaines sont en route:
- Faire plus de velo (en route, je vais entre deux a trois fois par semaine au boulot en velo, ce qui fait 1.10 de route aller-retour en tout dans la journee.) Quand je prends le bus c'est soit parce que je veux lire, j'en ai marre du velo ou il fait trop chaud (j'ai cru que j'allais exploser sur mon velo hier ), soit je suis malade (deux dernieres semaines, ah oui au fait quand je me sentais pas bien en fait, c'etait une infection renale, voire appendicite en route! finalement, tout est rentre dans l'ordre.
- Me remettre au saxophone (ca y est, c'est pas gagne, mais c'est en route)
- Lire Harry Potter (en route)
- Boire des mochas et des greentea frappuccino (ca c'etait pas prevu mais c'est en route)
- M'avancer au boulot pour la rentree (pas en route du tout!)
- Faire plus de yoga (en route)
- Commencer l'acupuncture (en route)
- Aller a la piscine, apprendre a nager (pas du tout mais du tout en route, je crois que j'ai un ptit peu peur!)
- Porter des jupes (a fond en route!)
- Aller au festival de Shakespeare a Ashland (sud de l'oregon)
(presque en route)
Voila, c'est a peu pres tout. Bon j'ai encore un peu de temps pour travailler sur certains trucs et puis aller encore plus loin avec d'autres! Great, awesome!
Those are my goals for summer... some are already on the way, others are just longer to get started:
- Riding my bike much more (already good, I am riding two to three times a week. Which is 1 hour and ten minutes everyday. When I don't it's eithre I want to read, or I am afraid to explode on my bike like yesterday, or other things to do or I am sick like last two weeks. By the way, I finally went to see a doctor and I had a kidney infection! Not that great. I am under antibiotics and riding my bike again! so no problem)
- Playing saxophone again. I brought mine from France. (I started but I don't know where I am going with it. Feels good anyway!)
- Reading Harry Potter, Volume 6.(I started and I don't want to go too fast on this one, can be dangerous for a muggle (non-magic human)
- Drinking more iced mochas and greentea frappuccino (I am getting addict to it)
- Working on some stuffs to get ready for September (not started yet, not at all!)
- Going to yoga more often (I am doing that more regularly than during school year)
- Starting acupuncture (third appointment tomorrow)
- Taking swimming lessons (not started yet, I think I am a litlle bit scared!)
- Wearing skirts (Started and feels so good!)
- Going to Ashland for Oregon Shakespeare Festival (I am working on it)
Well that's it! I have still some time to work some stuffs out and get deeper in others... ca, c'est cool, toc de mac!
Posted on July 28, 2005 | Comments (5)
Sick and sick again
by joon
Because right now, I feel not well, I decided to post some entry about bad I have felt lately!
It's really weird, on my acupuncture appointment last Tuesday, Skip asked me how was my digestion and if there is something I don't complain it's my stomach. I never hard time to digest. And in the last years when someone got flu(spelling?), I just got symptoms of it for 12 hours and it's ok! I can work because I don't really feel bad and I am not even sure of what I have. And the other thing is this allergy to wild rice. I guess it's wild rice. Because four years ago, in 9 months I got sick like food poisoning, intoxication three times and when I tracked what I ate each time, wild rice was the thing. So for the last three years I just managed to avoid wild rice, refusing politely, and I never got sick again until last wednesday. Sick for 8 hours (starting downtown...great) and two days after, I was able to eat normally. when I ate this soup, I think there was wild rice but I was not sure so I ate it anyway. Mistake! But as Iwant to know, I went to the place and asked for the ingredients. I will have informations tomorrow. After that I got a wonderful week end and last night, I had the impression someone just took my back and was compressing it! That was awful, new pain, I didn't know how to manage. All next morning, It was my stomach which was compressed. I have cramps for minutes and after everything is better. And it starts again. I have no idea waht it can be. But two of my students were sick today.
So maybe it's a virus. So it doesn't make the entry of the world neither helps my situation. But well I wanted to share that. One thing I am happy with, is the fact that I realize, I am less hypocondriac than before. Because I am not imagining deadly illness!
Good, that's good news.
Posted on July 19, 2005 | Comments (0)
Acupuncture & Yoga
by joon
Last week, I had my first acupuncture appointment. I decided to use acupuncture for two main reasons:
- All my upper back from neck to shoulder is always very tensed and two weeks ago, I woke up with such pain that I was not able to move normally. Since then, on my bike, it was impossible to turn correctly my head to watch for cars behind.
- Eczema. I have birth eczema. It usually goes with asthma. And my Dad generously transmitted me both. Well. I don't suffer from asthma really. It's here and I know it can come back but I don't take any medication anymore for that. And eczema went away for one or two years and came back last summer. AS asthma, it never goes away totally but wait for his time. When eczema disappeared totally, I had instead a tiny dry skin spot on my hand who was itching and playing disappearence and appearence. When eczema came back, this thing ran away!
Generally, when something disappeared, it finds an other way in your body to tell you things. Eczema, even from birth, is also linked to stress, weather, clothes, food... I don't want to take cortisone all the time, I had heavy medication all my childhood so now that my health is so stable, I am looking for less use of medecine.And because eczema came back so bad, and I am taking yoga classes, I am being treated thanks to acupuncture.
It was funny to have those needles in your skin (they only put needles in arms, legs, feet and face. Japanese acupuncture) and you can't move, so the only thing you do is relaxing. The day after, I already were able to turn my head better!
In France, I used Feldenkreis Method, Kinesiology, Ostheopathy, Sound therapy. And always, I learned more and fell better. I sometines didn't have a precise reason to go to one of those thing. Sometimes, I was curious and knew that everything in your life is linked. I knew I had to do something. If you have a pain (psychologic or physical), there are never only one reason to that and your body tries to warn you in different ways. And physic and psychic always play together!
Posted on July 16, 2005 | Comments (0)
Symetrie et/and symmetric
by joon
We have a wonderful living room, now so I will be happy because my birthday is coming to invite you. Not only because of my birthday, I wanted to do a party anyway soon so! Still I don't know if it will be something like on the 28th or the week after!
When my parents left, they let us a gift card and we got a coffee table. Thank you...we love it. Aude, the vase you offered us is great in our new living room! On the same day, we went to get a rug and of course we changed everything in the living room and I added some stuffs on the walls. My parents brought some of my personal things like pieces of fabric or paintings that I love. I feel like home more and more. It's so good to have my things I was living with in France.
During our "adjustment" in the living room, I just realized how much my work (director, actress) makes my way of designing space different. Adam put the rug symetrically with the wall and I almost had a heart attack (I am sorry cheri). So I heard myself explaining how much a space is dead if you put things symmetrically. For sure, on stage. It's why three, five, seven are interesting numbers because it's not balanced. You can have conflicts, emotions...well, complicated to explain right now. But basically, it's like our body, or our face. No, not symmetric. One eye smaller, a leg longer...even little tiny but no, not symmetric...if you find someone who has a perfect symmetric face...believe me or not but you will freak out. Nature is not perfectly balanced, in the most beautiful architectural monument, you can't even see it easily but it's not perfectly symmetric or it wouldn't be that beautiful. After all I guess you can also live in a house where everything is perfectly symmetric, personally I can't, I have the impression I can't stay in that space for long. But to finish, I was weird on this week end, I hope not too much annoying with my "uh, uh...this is symmetric!?"
On a un super salon/salle a manger maintenant et je serai heureuse de vous inviter bientot car mon anniversaire s'approche et je comptais faire une fete de toute facon. Ce sera pour le 28 ou la semaine d'apres...ca che pas encore.
Quand mes parents sont partis, ils nous ont laisse une carte cadeau et nous avons choisi une magnifique table de salon...Merci infiniment!On adore! Aude, au fait le vase est content au milieu de notre nouveau salon. Le meme jour, nous sommes alles acheter un tapis et en revenant forcement, on a tout change dans le salon et j'ai ajoute des trucs au mur que ma famille m'a ramenee de France et des tissus et tout. Ca fait du bien de retrouver ces choses dans lesquelles je vivais en France. Je me sens comme mon appart a Paris !
Pendant notre reamenagement de la piece, j'ai realise combien mon boulot dans le theatre a laisse des traces dans ma maniere de voir l'espace. Adam a commence par mettre le tapis parallelement au mur et la j'ai pratiquement eu une crise cardiaque et j'en suis desolee mon cheri. Je me suis alors entendue expliquer combien l'espace est mort si tout est symetrique. Il n'y a plus de vie possible et ca c'est vrai sur scene. C'est pourquoi notamment trois, cinq, sept sont des chiffres interessants parce qu'en apportant le desequilibre, ils apportent des conflits, des emotions. Bon c'est un peu complique d'expliquer ca ici. Mais simplement, notre corps, notre visage ne sont pas symetriques. On a tous un oeil, une jambe plus petite que l'autre...et si vous m'amenez quelqu'un avec un visage parfaitement symetrique, je vous garantis des cauchemars. Pour finir, la nature, ni les plus beaux monuments ne sont symetriques et c'est pour cela qu'ils sont beaux. Apres tout, ca doit pouvoir se faire de vivre dans une maison parfaitement symetrique mais perso, je ne pourrais pas rester tres longtemps. Finalement, je me suis sentie un tit peu ennuyeuse, j'espere pas trop avec mon "euh, ce serait pas un peu symetrique ca!?"
Posted on May 10, 2005 | Comments (5)
Depuis le temps...
by joon
Un mois presque jour pour jour que je n'ai pas ecrit ici. Et je dois avouer que ca me manquait. Nous n'avons pas encore internet et je dois dire que meme si ca me manque, au moins nous ne restons pas bloque Adam et moi deux heures chacun devant.
Internet peut etre tellement un piege. Tu peux passer ta matinee a ca sans t'en rendre compte.
Enfin bref, je suis desolee si vous attendiez quelques recits de mes aventures outre atlantique.
Alors deja nous habitons depuis 3 semaines dans notre petit chez moi et ah ! ca fait du bien. Deuxiemement nous avons fait une petite fete pour la cremaillere et pour l'anniversaire d'Adam. Tres sympathique.
Ensuite , enfin avant ca bon bah Bush a ete reelu, mais ca malheureusement fallait s'en douter meme si je ne voulais pas y croire. La politique de la terreur ca a toujours marche et puis nous on a failli avoir Le pen alors bon...
Voila sinon je vous attends quand vous voulez a la maison, on a une chambre d'invites et enattendant de vous voir debarquer peut etre en decembre...
One month already I haven't been able to write. We don't have internet yet. Even if I miss having this instrument of communication, I have to say that it is so easy to spend two hours on the computer or all your morning... I appreciate the time Adam and I spend together since we don't have it. But it's cool to be able to go whenever you want. I will be just more careful with the time I spend and how...
Anyway, it's been three weeks now since we moved and oh, I love our place!
We organized a housewarming/Adam's birthday party last saturday and that was cool.
Before that yeah, well Bush was reelected. Ok we know how we feel about that. The politic of fear is so efficient...We were about three years ago to have Le pen as a president in France. Nothing to be proud of!
Voila I wait for you to come in our place (we have a guest room!) and for those who are in France ...I hope to see you soon guys!
Posted on November 17, 2004 | Comments (1)
Les Triplettes de Belleville in Portland
by joon
Last saturday, I went in Kells pub, the huge irish pub in downntown with two women I work with. The place was crowded but little by little we made us a place just between the dance floor and the bar.
We had so much fun.
I think the bartender found us fun because he gave us chocolate and also said he didn't know that french women could dance that well. Obviously, he liked us a lot because we were not dancing that well but stupidly crazy! But Irish music is so good.
at school, everyone knows we were there and someone told me that we were like charle's angels. I answered the triplets of belleville would be more true.
Samedi dernier, je suis allee au pub irlandais dans le centre ville avec deux femmes profs de mon ecole. Le bar etait completement blinde mais petit a petit, nous avons reussi a nous faire une place juste entre le bar et le lieu ou l'on danse. On s'est eclatee comme des malades.
Je crois que le barman nous aimait vraiment bien. Notamment parce qu'il nous a donne des chocolats et nous a dit qu'il ne savait pas que les francaises savaient danser. La, c'etait sur, il nous aimait vraiment bien parce que mon dieu, on ne dansait pas, on faisait n'importe quoi! Ah, j'adore la musique irlandaise.
Le lundi, tout le monde a l'ecole savait qu'on etait allees au pub. Et un prof m'a dit qu'on devait ressembler aux trois droles de dames. J'ai repondu que "les triplettes de belleville" se rapprocherait plus de la verite.Je pense qu'on ressemblait plutot aux triplettes de belleville
Posted on October 17, 2004 | Comments (0)
Firsts / Premieres fois
by joon
Pour la premiere fois je suis allee chez un ophtalmologiste car ma vue a baisse et que cela devenait reellement genant. C'etait tres bizarre. A chaque fois qu'il me demandait la, vous voyez mieux ou la en changeant les "lentilles"(?), je me disais ok, il ne faut pas que je me plante. Parfois c'etait evident mais parfois pas vraiment.
Pour la premiere fois donc, j'ai choisi des lunettes. Aucune idee si elles vont m'aller mais je les aime bien. Je devrais les porter pour voir a distance comme conduire, ou lire les sous titres parce que recemment je me mettais a un metre de la tele pour lire ce qu'il y avait d'ecrit. Et a l'etranger, parfois, les sous titres c'est bien utile meme en anglais.
Pour la premiere fois, j'ai utilise mon assurance ici.
Pour la premiere fois, j'ai conduit une voiture a boitier automatique. Ce n'est pas que c'est difficile mais c'est une question de reflexe. Tu ne dois jamais utilise ta jambe gauche. Tu la mets dans un coin et tu lui demandes de dormir jusqu'a ton point d'arrivee. Sinon elle appuie sur la pedale de frein pensant que c'est
L'embrayeur. Vous imaginez les degats surtout que tu appuies a fond. J'ai eu la tete dans le parebrise et puis c'est tout. Mais ca a ete.
For the first time, I went to an optometrist because I noticed I had a less good vision than before and it started to really annoys me. For example, it was hard to read subtitles. Kind of really bothering for me who needs subtitles sometimes. It avoids me to ask every 10 minutes : "What? What did he just say?"
But recently I needed to be so close of the screen that it was ridiculous.
I was strange. Each time, The guy were asking me while changing lenses "Is it better now or before?" I was thinking "Oh I can't make any mistake!"
So for the first time, I will wear glasses. I have no idee if they are cool but I like the ones I choose. I have to wear them for seeing in the distance…driving, reading subtitles…
So for the first time, I used my insurance.
And for the first time, I drove a car with automatic stick stuff. Uuuuhhhh, weird. When I realized it was automatic, I decide to drive in the neighborhood first before going anywhere else. And at the moment, I thought I could not do it today because obviously, I used my left foot to changee speed and obviously, I was breaking! Youhou! I found the trick, put my leg away and chill out until I will get out of the car. And after that it was just fine.
Posted on October 16, 2004 | Comments (1)
It's been so long!!!!!! / Ca fait si longtemps!!!!!!!
by joon
Ok, I have so many things to say and I am so lazy right now.
- Mount st Helens is alive! Kind of exciting!
- I love indian summer!
- We found a new place to live and I love it.Two bedrooms, in a house, big basement, yard, everything ....uuhh, except some of you have extra furniture?
- I have so much work!
- I am going to knit a hat for winter.
- I cooked "pork a la dijonnaise" with mustard, white wine and porto ...so delicious! Galibari, you want the recipe? Did you get the tajine one?
P.S: Thank you Curt for the work on the blog!
Bon, j'ai pleins de choses a raconter mais je uis un peu faineante maintenant.
Si j'ai ete si longue a reposter des hiistoires c'est que mon site et plusieurs autres ont ete demenage pour ameliorer certaines choses. De votre cote, on ne voit rien mais du mien c'est plus pratique et plus sur. Et les problemes comme ceux concernant les commentaires qui sont invisibles... ne devraient pas reapparaitre de sitot.
- Est ce que vous avez entendu parler de l'eruption du Mont St Helens? Eh bien, c'est a une centaine de km de Portland. Pas de quoi s'affoler, l'eruption n'atteindra jamais celle de 1980.
-J'adore l'ete indien...septembre et octobre sont si doux et mem chaud!
-Ca y est on a une maison. Deux chambres..vous etes les bienvenus. Spacieux, pres de tout, un petit jardin. Classe. On partage la maison avec d'autres personnes. Enfin on ne vit pas ensemble. Mais les grandes maisons ici, a un moment donne ils les ont arrange pour que ca fasse ce qu'ils appellent des duplex. Nous on a l'etage. en realite, tu oublies completement que c'est la meme maison. enfin vous verrez bien quand vous viendrez!
Euh, vous avez pas des meubles par contre?
-J'aime mon boulot mais je cours partout!
-Je vais commencer un bonnet pour l'hiver...vive le tricotage!
-J'ai fait une seance de photos pour le blog et la maison qui abrite mon blog! Euh, je crois que ca va vous surprendre.
J'ai cuisiner des cotes de porc a la dijonnaise : moutarde, vin blanc et porto. Ca fait mal tellement c'est bon!
Galibari tu veux la recette? T'as eu celle du Tajine d'ailleurs?
Posted on October 5, 2004 | Comments (4)
No comments
by joon
Dear all who follow my adventures on the other side of the ocean... Have you posted comments on the two last entries I wrote recently?
I am sad, there are two comments I can't read because of some problem with "movable stuff". This kind of things happen but if it was fun or nice or whatever, I really would like to read them... can you send them again?
Please........!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chers tous qui suivez mes aventures de l'autre cote de l'ocean...Avez vous poster un commentaire sur les deux derniers articles ecrits?
Je suis triste parce que il y a ces deux commentaires que je ne peux pas lire a cause de probleme lie au site, mais il va dememnager bientot et tout ces problemes seronnt du passe masi en attendant j'aimerais bien savoir ce que vous avez ecrit!
Vous pouvez essayer de les renvoyer?
S'il vous plait.........!!!!!!!!!!!! Je vous en supplie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on September 19, 2004 | Comments (0)
Miscellaneous news / En vrac
by joon
- J'ai ma carte d'identite de l'oregon. Ca m'a coute 29 dollars mais je n'ai plus a transporter mon passeport partout.
- J'ai ma carte bancaire americaine
- Mes cheques (ici tu recois une boite de 6chequier minimum genre pour l'annee, tu les paies aussi)
- J'ai un velo avec un casque (tu roules pas sans casque ici)
- J'ai achete ces petites bouteilles qu'ils transportent partouut ici pour boire de l'eau.
- Je dois absolument prendre un rendez-vous chez un ophtalmo
- On cherche un appart
- Euh, ce serait que mon transfert d'argent se fasse a un moment donne. Si vous voulez l'histoire entiere de mes aventures avec ma banque...demndez car je suis un peu fatguee de cette histoire. Je voulais la raconter au debut parce que c'est fort mais ... je suis lassee.
- J'ai eu une augmentation...normal j'ai plus de responsabilites.
- L'automne arrive a grands pas ici.
- Le meurtrier a apparemment ete boucle
- Je n'ai toujours pas envoye le courrier que j'aurais du envoyer il y a un mois.
- Bold sky restaurant top
- Les dernieres video louees : bubba hoh tep (un truc comme ca), Zatoichi et Kill Bill.
- Et si c'est difficile de poster des commentaires, c'est normal, le site va demenager. Ca ne changera rien a l'adresse mais ca entrainera peut etre quelques problemes dans les prrochains quinze jours.
- I got my oregon ID, an american bank card and check books and the kind of bottle you see everywhere here to bring your water, I have an insurance ( Ineed to see a eye doctor by the way) I feel ready for american life... Except I have no money on my account because I have some trouble to make my transfer from france. Three weeks now! In case of you are interested by the whole story, ask me but I feel tired of it. Fax out of order, stupid kinko's employee, stupid me and stupid bank...stupid money.
- Anyway, fall is arriving quickly now. Do you say autumn or fall here?
- The murderer has been caught.
- The bold sky restaurant is great
- I need to send mail. I should have done that one month ago.
- I recently watched Kill Bill (bloody), Zatoichi ( bloody) annd Bubba hoh tep (mummy). The last one is something . It's the second time, i watch it, I love it.
- We are looking for a place to live.
- I have a bike now!
Posted on September 18, 2004 | Comments (0)