Thursday, February 02, 2006

French Women do Get Fat and I know Why...

Gateaux at le Notre

My friend Jessica has written a provocative post about « truthiness » in which she brings up an issue that coincidentally, has intrigued me since my arrival in Paris. Contrary to Mireille Guilian’s  hardcover bestseller, French women do get fat and French children it seems, are getting fat at “alarming” rates.

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Friday, July 15, 2005

Coffee and other morning happenings

Picture040_15jul05Grande latte from Ladro. Disappointingly not good. I've noticed that all of my bad cups of coffee from Ladro all come from the same store (Uptown). I'll have to try some other locations to see what's up.

I also had my standard morning mix: Metamucil, two vitamins, and two fish oil capsules.

When I left the house this morning there was a KING5 News van outside the building. This was initially worrisome, but once I noticed that they were loading stuff into the Queen Anne Books, I realized that it must be for the new Harry Potter book.

I was running late this morning, and would have missed the bus, but it was also late, which was good. However, this meant that I would miss my connecting bus, which was bad, but the connection was also late, which was good, but it wasn't late enough, so I missed it anyway, which was bad. Since I now had some time to kill in Uptown waiting for the next bus, I went to Ladro to grab a latte.

SPOILER ALERT: If you click the 'continue' link, you will find out something about the ending of the new Harry Potter book. If you want it to be a surprise, stop reading.

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