Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006 - 1:57 p.m.

It has come to this.

Not only will I watch Lost, a show I hate and despise with almost every fiber of my being, but I will actually follow along to it with the Television Without Pity recap, so that I know what's going on and what people are saying.

It's a sad, sad state of affairs, my friends.

Unfortunately, most of the American shows on national french television are not shows TVWoP recaps. This almost causes me to weep.

Almost.

I am happy to say that my policy of sloth and sleep seems to be paying off. I feel rather better this evening than I have in a week. Still running a temp, but I feel less crappy.

I lost internet there for a while today. I don't mind telling you guys there was a slight tinge of hysteria to my dealings while I got it running again. And okay, "hysteria" might be a bit of an exaggeration, but um, only for effect. Honest.

I have to go buy water tomorrow. That is the most onerous task of my week, the hauling of 9 liters of water up 4 flights of stairs. A liter of water weighs 2.2 pounds (1kg), people. That's 19.8 pounds. Granted, that's not that much. I can carry 20 pounds in from the car to the kitchen with no problem. Lugging it up 4 flights, on the other hand...I feel it by the top of the second set of stairs, and by the top of the 3rd, my legs are kinda hatin' me. By the time I get up to the 5th floor AND the last 3 steps that lead up to my particular part of the hallway...well, let's just say my legs are a little rubbery by then. That doesn't even take into account the hauling of the water home, a minimum of 6 blocks. Further, if I get it at Carrefour, which then includes the hauling of it up and down subway steps. And I do that every 6 days. Which should tell you more than anything how awful Paris tapwater can be.

I would love to know why people are being beheaded right and left in this episode of Crossing Jordan. Not that I like Crossing Jordan. I don't. But my other options are, in order, a live production of a french comedy onstage (comedy sorta loses its kick when you don't know why it's funny), what seems to be a documentary about island fisherman, a black and white documentary about a symphony conductor or an opera singer, I can't tell which, a french variety show interspersed with great amounts of talkshow type activity, a spanish movie dubbed into french which has been going an unspecified length of time, the 20 minute repeating cycle of EuroNews, the E! True Hollywood Story, dubbed into french, of some drug-addicted blonde American porn chick whom I've never heard of. Drug-addicted pornstar vs. wacky beheadings and barechested Jerry O'Connell. Ah, you say, you understand why I'm watching Crossing Jordan now.

Yes. Yes, you do.

I'm trying to ignore the Snickers bar I hear in the kitchen, calling my name. I bought a 6-pack in a moment of weakness at the grocery store, because I really wanted a candybar, and they don't seem to just sell candy bars here, unless you buy 6 packs of either Snickers, Mars, Twix, or some other Mars brand bar I've never seen before.

You know, Jerry O'Connell may be a twit, and the spiky hair is ridiculous, but he has a beautiful neck, and the rest of him below it isn't so bad, either. Especially when you are spending your days in a culture that doesn't believe in working out. I never knew how appreciative I was of a buff male form until I got here and all the men are either overweight or look like underdeveloped boys.

BTW, yesterday, when I made reference to my "fans", I was just goofing off. I do NOT think of the people who read my blog as fans. After I read that later, I was all, you know, that joke did not translate to the screen the way it ran thru your head. So, um, sorry about that.

Okay, I think I have to lie down again, now.

Peace out,
Katie

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