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"Best of" | 05 mars 2009

Funny how when you have less time you find the time to do more things. Its probably because of greater organisational skills that are delivered to you at the maternity ward by the mystery elf of parenthood.

I also feel that many of the things I do are more meaningful now then before. Like investing in friendship and taking care of someone else than myself. I have energy to (at least think about) doing a Paris guide for Pan and I from all the restaurants business cards I have collected during my 4 years here. And its about time, before I forget about them and all the wonderful things to do here,and before we leave the city of love... (and go the city of happiness -aha to be continued...) So I seem to be gathering back my thoughts of wanting to do things after a few months of hibernation. Its another matter if I WILL actually do them but the mind will carry you a long way.

However you also have to allow yourself some meaningless times, like watching TV (although you can actually learn alot). What is great in this day and age is that you can really tailorsuite your programs and watch what you want when you want. It doesn't mean you watch less crap necessarily but at least you chose your crappy program yourself. And being such an organised person, I've started to watch "best-of"s of certain programs to win time. Then I ditch the blabla and only see the highlights (That's why I like The Grand journal's Zapping of the last 24 hours on Canal+. anything worth noticing on french TV will appear there). I've gone down to watch the "best of" of the Grand Journal itself, mainly to avoid ackward moments of translation with international superstars that are always talked to in french (ridiculous) and to spear me the lectures of the old guy who thinks he is so political and smart and ends up saying the same thing again and again.

So (finally Im getting to the point - I might be more organised but wow it still takes me a long time to finish a story!) the other day Canal+ "best of" of the weekend included the French Oscars "Les Cesars". There were a few non french guest celebrities in the crowd, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. During one of the acceptance speeches, a french actress had a "little" wardrobe malfunction and when I say a little - I mean her breast was completely out of her dress and thats all the hundreds of people could focus on while the poor woman made her speech. (and probably the thousands watching at home) People were laughing and feeling akward but noone even gave her the slightest hint anything was wrong - until Emma Thompson - being such a perfect lady - ran up on the stage, turned the woman around, pulled up her dress and went back to her seat again. This image has stuck with me.

And maybe its because of my hormone-filled body (wonder how long I will be able to use that excuse?), or because I dont sleep 10 hours a night but Emma's consideration really moved me. Then I realise why. If it would not have been for her, the poor woman would have been there until the end of her speech humiliated without even realising it until so much later- and I have to say that the total non-reaction to help her does reflect how I see the french society as a whole. What happened to this great country that once cared so much about human rights and equality? Where women are now seen as less as men, children are in the way, where group efforts and even individual iniciative are rare and where your pay check is all that matters? My vision might seem unfair - but this is not a world I want my son to grow up in. And that's why we have decided to leave... perhaps so we can appreciated France and all the wonderful things it does have to offer - but this time from a distance.

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