tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716796879731709282024-03-19T04:58:24.769+01:00FlâneurKate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.comBlogger357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-16160968759278240902015-09-25T16:09:00.001+02:002015-09-25T16:09:47.236+02:00A Fresh Start<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A change has already taken place in my life: I finished my BA, packed all my belongings (you'd be amazed with how much stuff a single person can accumulate in three years, kissed all my beloved ones in Germany goodbye and flew to Manchester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it is time for one more change:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought my own domain and switched from Blogger to Wordpress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can see my new website, where all the all posts are still available:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is still work to be done, but I hope that you'll like the new site!</span></div>
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<br />Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-85609326027345894882015-07-24T12:26:00.000+02:002015-07-26T14:19:34.621+02:00Have A Jolly Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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though? <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/honest-book-titles?sub=3389624_3399982#.yxPDok76X" target="_blank">13 of your favorite books if their titles were honest.</a> I’m reading <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> right now, so I couldn’t
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it is there and don’t throw it away.” Click <a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/20-inspirational-quotes-stephen-hawking-everyone-should-read.html?mid=20150609&ref=mail&uid=484368&feq=daily" target="_blank">here</a> for more insightful quotes
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So proud to be able to call <a href="https://vimeo.com/25827402" target="_blank">this city</a> home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-3158435777426436102015-07-21T19:25:00.002+02:002015-07-21T19:26:33.378+02:00Productivity Tip: The 90-Minute Writing Block<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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Gretchen Rubin’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Project-Aristotle-Generally/dp/006158326X" target="_blank">The Happiness Project:Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying to Sing In The Morning, Clean My Closets, FightRight, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun</a>.</i> Gretchen Rubin, who is a
writer, blogger, podcaster, and many more, thought that she couldn’t sit down
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which was something hard to arrange. As a result she decided to track the writing
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long to see that I did better when I had <i>less
</i>time. Not several hours but ninety minutes turned out to be the optimally
efficient length of time – long enough for me to get some real work done but
not so long that I started to goof off or lose concentration. As a consequence,
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and doing translations for my other courses or for freelance projects, but sometimes
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-46962766751318997272015-07-19T14:37:00.000+02:002015-07-19T14:37:34.323+02:00The One About Crying<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Death is the only thing worth crying about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the contrary, I am some sort of crying… advocate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have cried my heart out many times in the past. In
primary school I cried because some boys made fun of me. As I was preparing for
my final exams in high school I cried because I was stressed and suffering from
insomnia. When I first came to Germany sometimes I cried because I felt
helpless with the language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’ve also shed tears of joy and mourned for the loss
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And sometimes I might even cry because I’m emotionally
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Crying allows me to let some steam off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Just as the other two sorts of salted water:<o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same time, I have gone through break-ups –
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What I’m trying to say is that, it’s perfectly okay to
cry. Can we stop feeling ashamed for doing so? Can we stop demonizing it? If we
weren’t meant for crying what’s the point of having lacrimal glands, right? There
is no right time or right place. No <i>appropriate</i>
issue about which you shall or shall not cry. Everybody cries about different
things, which reflect their values, priorities and concerns. If we don’t have
the same interests, likes, problems or goals, if we don’t laugh at the same
things, why should crying be the exception? And no restrictions when it comes
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What are your thoughts on crying?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-43234256675666185972015-07-18T10:59:00.000+02:002015-07-19T14:37:43.213+02:00#instalove: Favorite Instagram Accounts<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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Lil’ Bunny Sue Roux is a cat who was born without her front legs – resembling
slightly something between a cat, an bunny and a kangaroo, but she is not
letting that stop her from being one the most adorable and funny pets online! A
friend* introduced me to this delightful little creature a couple weeks ago and
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account, is an Athens expat currently living in The Hague, Netherlands, and continuously
posting photos of mouthwatering food. Most of it is traditional Greek cuisine,
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-12852188993201953752015-07-13T19:30:00.000+02:002015-07-13T19:44:00.762+02:00The One About The Girl Who Reads<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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self-proclaimed bookworm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is why I also collect quotes.
I memorize them and wait until the perfect opportunity arises for me to cite
them. About a couple days ago I was searching on Goodreads (a friend introduced
me to it and I have enjoyed it using it ever since, mostly because it lets me
keep track of all the books I want to read in one list instead of on thousands
post-it notes scattered all over my place) for quotes about, well, books and I
came across one which felt so weirdly relatable that I wanted to share it with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems
with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of
books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Find a girl who reads.
You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her
bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one
who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird
chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the
reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are
yellow and worn.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She’s the girl reading
while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her
mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed
already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a
glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes
the book.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of
Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses
she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she
would like to be Alice.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for
anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her
Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words
are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality
but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite
book. It will never be your fault if she does.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
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understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are
other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fail her. Because a
girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls
who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always
write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That
life is meant to have a villain or two.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Why be frightened of everything that you are not?
Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the
Twilight series.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When
you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a
cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will
always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real,
because for a while, they always are. […]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You will smile so hard
you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest
yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and
even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat
and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age
together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow
off your boots.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful
life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and
half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and
the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-68499974085920908362015-07-12T18:19:00.001+02:002015-07-13T19:44:08.601+02:00A Change of Subject<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Two
nights ago I was at a party talking to a handsome and well-travelled
chap. He was telling me about his visit in Athens and how much he had enjoyed
it. Since I come from Athens, there are only a few things about which I enjoy
talking as much. While he was passionately describing his affection for the
local food and the feel of the hot, relentless Mediterranean sun on his skin, I
– for some unthinkable reason – decided that our discussion about Athens
required some sort of commentary on Greece’s current political-economic
situation.*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“To
be honest, I am not that well informed about this issue and I am not really
interested in talking about politics”, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For
a moment or two I felt slightly offended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bored and him from being lectured on something he found dull.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of a conversation, but most times I am so keen on not hurting someone’s
feelings that I allow them to blabber on and on about a subject they’re
particularly excited about (while I’m secretly wishing for someone to come and
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you have been living under a rock, you probably are aware of the referendum
that took place last Sunday in Greece regarding their stay in the euro zone and
austerity measures. If you have indeed been living under one, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/04/the-greece-referendum-explained-for-normal-folks-who-dont-follow-european-politics/?hpid=z1">this
article</a> might help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-79904924985759599242015-04-30T19:39:00.001+02:002015-07-13T19:44:57.621+02:00Confessions of an Ex-Tinder-User<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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of curiosity. Having read multiple tweets (<a href="http://kateflaneur.blogspot.de/2015/02/why-i-ditched-twitter.html" target="_blank">when I still had twitter</a>) and online
newspaper articles mostly condemning its superficiality, I knew I had to give
it a try. So I did. I had just gotten out of a serious relationship, but I was
looking neither for a new one nor for casual sex, which is basically what
Tinder is mostly known for.<i> "Tinder is a location-based social discovery
app that facilitates communication between mutually interested users. It is
used for dating as well as other kinds of networking."</i> Nice try, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_%28application%29" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tinder&utm_source=search-action" target="_blank">Urban Dictionary’s</a> approach sounds a little more honest: “<i>Dating
app. Tinder is the McDonalds for sex.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #2:</b> </span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I downloaded Tinder out of
childish curiosity. Initially, my innermost goal was to set a relatively short
perimeter (somewhere between 10 and 20 miles), so as to find whether any of
my friends were also on Tinder and then proceed and make fun of them. Please
note that most of my friends in Athens live pretty close to me. The main reason behind it is the fact that I
regard resorting to the use of dating apps and sites as a sign of extreme
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Unfortunately, no one of
my childhood friends is on Tinder, which came as a great disappointment. However,
the proximity of my search revealed an abundance of handsome men living close
to me. Now I was really curious: How come I've never come across any of them? Don't
they do grocery shopping? Have coffee? Use public transport? Same thing
happened when I repeated my social experiment in the tiny German city where I currently
live and study – and whose name I’d rather not reveal. Until then I was
perfectly sure that its population greatly resembled that of a nunnery (save
for elderly men, university professors and the shy computer expert who repairs
my laptop every now and then), but Tinder showed me that I was greatly
mistaken. <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #3:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b> </b>I might have said that I
did not find any of my friends in Athens on Tinder, however you have to brace yourself
for who you might across there. I stumbled upon my ex, most of his guy friends,
my roommate's ex, one guy that used to work in my gym (and, thus, had seen me
covered in sweat and more shiny that the whole Cullen family together), and
several people who study at my university. To be honest, a third option should
be created, so that you don't have to choose only between swiping left if you
don't like someone and swiping right if you do. I propose making circles with
our thumbs every time a familiar person appears among Tinder candidates. Every
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #4:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b> </b>A nationality comparison
was almost inevitable. Brace yourselves for the stereotypes. Most of the Greek
guys had dark hair and a beard. And tattoos – I can look at photos of people flashing
their tattoos no more. Germans, on the other hand, were significantly blonder
and had light colored eyes. No beards in sight, but mind the <i>"I could cut myself slapping that face.
Would you like me to try?"</i> cheekbones, as Irene Adler once said to
Sherlock. Moreover, I noticed that whereas Greeks are more eager to post photos
of themselves smiling next to their pets (mostly dogs, so bonus points for the
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #5:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Tinder made me realize that
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #6:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> And that I am also
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #7:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b> </b>Tinder can also offer a
confidence boost sometimes. For example, I "liked" several guys that
I thought to be out of my league, but apparently we "matched" (this
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #8:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Tinder allows you to pick
whether you are interested in men or women, so I took advantage of this
opportunity in order to find out how many women are actually on Tinder. Wanna
know? Overwhelmingly few. I'd say that there were at least twenty guys for
every woman I saw on Tinder. How's that working? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decided that conversing with some of the guys wouldn’t hurt after all. However,
due to Tinder’s reputation of basically being a casual sex app, I couldn’t
shake the feeling that making small talk and acting interested was pointless; I
had to either respond in a promiscuous way or skip the conversation altogether.
Since I wasn’t going to use the app for its sole purpose and play the <i>game</i>, why should I invest time at all?
So I went through my matches for the very last time, thinking of how nice it
would had been if we had accidentally run into each other at a party, unlogged
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b>Confession #10:</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><b> </b>I don’t know if I am ever
going to re-install it. Maybe in another city, life period or mindset, Tinder
would have worked. Our relationship has been similar to what my friend E. has
with yoga; even though I constantly tell her it’s fun, she finds it boring - she once almost fell asleep during a yoga class.
Tinder feels too impersonal. It makes me feel like a fish out of the water. If
you, like me, belong to the category of person who bonds over 9gag memes and
LOTR conversations, thinks that Colin Firth is the sexiest man on earth and
falls in love with people’s auras, thenTinder is </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">probably</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">not for you.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Do you think I might have
got it all wrong? As I’ve asked previously, do you use Tinder? Do you enjoy doing
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Break up <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/breakup-quotes" target="_blank">quotes</a> that are better than Ben & Jerry's. </span></div>
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has fed my infatuation with everything French. Art, (translated) literature, food,
<a href="http://kateflaneur.blogspot.gr/2014/12/the-paris-diaries-part-deux.html" target="_blank">pharmacy products</a>, words I can barely pronounce (usually sounding like Hodor
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it this way – I was always really eager reading about is the mystery surrounding
the French woman, and particularly the <i>Parisienne</i>.
So I succumbed to the temptation (aka.
its promotion on every women’s site and magazine imaginable) and purchased <i>How to be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits.</i></span><br />
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and perky essays, a pretty large fond, lots of photos and illustrations, high quality
paper, and a minimalistic, chic cover. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is quite stereotypically written, but I suppose one
cannot expect about 1 million women to dress, think, love, and live adhering to
exactly the same rules? Moreover, it consists mainly of aphorisms, written in a
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they aren’t always easy to be with, and aren’t all perfect mothers. In fact,
they are very imperfect, vague, unreliable, and full of paradoxes. But they can
also be funny, attentive, curious, and ironic and they know how to enjoy life.”</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The last sentence summarizes what I liked in this
book: The focus on <i>joie de vivre</i>, the
importance of spending time alone, building friendships for life, valuing self-education
(for instance, the one you get from reading classic literature) more than material
goods, and, oddly enough, why it is important to remain a bit selfish even as a
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How to be Parisian Wherever You Are</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is a book that can be read
quickly, you can pick and choose which essays you’d like to read, skip some
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Flâneur verdict:</span><b> </b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nothing groundbreaking, but enjoyable nonetheless. A very
aesthetically pleasing coffee table book, but not necessarily more. An in-between for people who like magazines, but would like to give books a try.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-41704673448829553342015-03-27T14:41:00.000+01:002015-03-31T09:26:38.075+02:00Have A Splendid Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Did you just finish reading<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who
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next? This site holds the answer to you question, since it offers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>"</i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://gobookyourself.co/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">book recommendations</span></a></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">by humans, because algorithms are so 1984."</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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babies - someone probably didn't got the message it's Fri-yay again! How
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">*You can still read my review of the book </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://kateflaneur.blogspot.de/2014/11/my-latest-reads.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-63095737776623990242015-03-23T10:29:00.000+01:002015-03-31T09:26:43.423+02:00Book Suggestion: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles
of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay
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computers, printing press history, a secret cult of bibliophiles, encoded books
and hidden libraries in the heart of New York. The ‘marriage’ of modern
technology and dusty, bulky books as well as seeing characters from different
backgrounds and generations coming together to solve the mystery that
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-64999892617932280622015-03-20T11:25:00.001+01:002015-03-31T09:26:49.371+02:00Have A Beautiful Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-86037316243473178062015-03-19T21:39:00.002+01:002015-03-31T09:26:55.914+02:00Spring Fashion Inspiration: The Bold and the Beautiful (Floral Prints)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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I found out that running helps me de-stress and clear my thoughts when things
get… complicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like Sherlock*, I go to my <i>mind palace</i>
when I run. Either I don’t think of anything at all (university-related stress,
friends, boy trouble, etc.) or some serious brainstorming is in process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prefer running on the treadmill, though, since a) it is too cold in Germany for
me to run outside, b) it is too rainy in Germany for me to run outside, and c) I
usually get distracted by the picturesque scenery and stop to take photos for
Instagram. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a very danceable one, so consider yourself warned in case you feel the urge to
jump off the treadmill and do a Wannabe-choreography inside the gym. Or while
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bored. You’re not feeling really motivated. You feel tired. What do you need?
An uplifting song, feel-good song, that’s why we’re going to start our run with
Taylor Swift’s <i>Shake It Off. </i>You
might not be on running mode yet – you need to warm up with a little fast
walking first, but the song’s positive vibes feel contagious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up that fast walking, we’re going to sex it up a little. <i>Sexy Back</i> by Justin Timberlake comes next. You want to be strutting
down <s>the catwalk </s>treadmill with confidence. In addition, working out is
going to make your back look sexier, geddit it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Right now I command you to ruuuuuun/ I'll be your commander…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we need more girl power to kick it into high gear and what’s better than <i>Bang Bang</i> by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and
Nicki Minaj? Nicki is purely guilty pleasure material (if you agree with this,
don’t forget to add <i>Starships</i> into
your running list!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now you’re probably thinking “Kate, I’m starting to sweat and breathe heavily
and this cute guy across the room is looking at me, but I feel like I’m running
like Phoebe from that Friends’ episode, where she was jogging at the park with
Rachel (aka as an enthusiastic weirdo). What should I do?” I want to you to
listen to the Glee cover of <i>Sexy and I
Know It</i> by the Glee Cast featuring the one and only R-i-c-k-y M-a-r-t-i-n.
He’s sexy, Spanish is a sexy language and the word sexy is repeated more time
than Barney Stinson has said “Challenge Accepted”. Are you feeling it yet? Yes?
Good. Now, turn nonchalantly towards him and glance at him. No no, that was too
intense!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now get ready to give 110% of your energy! Try listening to <i>Watch Out For Zouka </i>by Bang La Decks vs.
Major Lazer, <i>Faith</i> by BlasterJaxx, <i>Utopia</i> by Bang La Decks and <i>212</i> by Azaelia Banks ft. Lazy Jay. These
I consider to be my “cool music”, since there’s embarrassingly lots of pop
music and vintage-y Greek swing songs saved in my cellphone’s memory card. If
you haven’t heard of Bang La Decks, they are an incredible DJ duo from Greece.
Apart from awesome party material, their music is also ideal for running – it always
gets me pumped up. Btw if you’re doing intervals, alternating running with
walking/ jogging) you might want to switch between these songs and something
less energetic for when you slow down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pablo. It belongs to the soundtrack of the first Step Up movie, so I added to
the list mostly because of sentimental reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ft. Sia. I’m discovered Sia very recently and I <i>love</i> her music, so I was looking for a way to incorporate it into
this list, since I usually reserve my Elastic Heart/ Chandelier re-enactments for
a few privileged friends and relatives. Or really dark alleys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Inglesias. I find some of the lyrics a bit creepy: “You know I'm gon get ya,
yeah/Whatever it takes to get there […]I'm coming, I'll get ya, yeah […] cause
girl I'm not letting go”. Therefore I want you to imagine yourself being chased
by a creepy guy and keep running!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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almost the end of the workout, you can slow down now. You did such a great job,
feeling tired but oh-so-good! Don’t you think you need some <i>Applause</i> (by Lady Gaga) for your effort?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you enjoyed the list and you’re going to use it for future running/ walking/
dancing sessions. You don’t all of the songs, you can always pick and choose
what matches your mood or/and speed. It also depends on what kind of music you
enjoy the most when you’re exercising. There are many people, who prefer the
beat of house or dance music, but I really love lyrics, they keep my mind busy
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-17108791785865997682015-02-16T15:34:00.000+01:002015-02-17T21:57:05.457+01:00Why I Ditched Twitter<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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As I mentioned in my last post, I need to be more focused when studying, so
logging on and off every now and then messed my concentration. Moreover, even
though I always said to myself “it will only be two minutes”, I ended spending surprisingly
more time than expected online. Therefore, consider my quitting Twitter as a
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felt like 95% of my timeline consisted solely of people making a fuss about
politics, their love and sex life, waistline, late trains and buses, weather,
sports, bad TV and advertisements, etc. I wanted to hug all these people,
cuddle them and say: “Nobody’s life is perfect, but please stop making a fuss
about yours! How can anything good happen to you, when your attitude towards
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unicorn running on an endless green field with a rainbow in the background. In addition, I realized that I don’t drink
excessively, stay up late, eat fast food, think/ text/ call my exes when drunk,
or wonder about the futility of life in my spare time. Last but not least, I’m
not keen on discussing my love preferences or politic views on social media,
which is what most users do to gain attention. I guess I was a really boring
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Instagram, much better.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> They are more visual and allow more creativity. 140
characters? Really? I talk too much – if you let me – and run a blog, which
should tell you a thing or two about how not keen I might be when it comes to
word restrictions. I hadn’t been using my Twitter account that often in the
last two years, but I kept it open because I persuaded myself that it would be
a good way to promote this blog and reach out to new readers. Every time a new
post would go online, the link would be automatically distributed there thanks
to a divine application whose name escapes me, but I would (almost) never post
something else, which, in the world of Twitter, is the equivalent of being in a
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often? I know my approach is very “all or nothing”, but have you ever
experienced the need to do something similar? More and more articles about
social media or internet detoxing appear on the web, so I’m really interested
in this subject and your thoughts on it. I’d love to hear from you!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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facebook page, I’d like to wish you a very happy new year. I hope you find what
you’re looking for in 2015 or, in case you’ve already found it, I hope you have
the will, energy, and enthusiasm to pursuit it restlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conventional post – a post about resolutions. Many of you may be the resolution
type; many of you may think of them of silly or unrealistic. I haven’t decided
yet whether I’m for or against them - last year I didn’t make any, but this
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horrible person, a proper “mean girl”, but I’m not a saint either. Most of the
time I can be judgmental without even realizing it. So I decided to start making
an effort to deliberately stop myself from being too harsh on people – or their
sartorial choices. A very appropriate quote I like to repeat to myself is: “Be
kind because everybody you meet is fighting their own battles.” Closely related to this
resolution is my decision to complain a little less. During the holidays I
brushed my affair with twitter up and realized that people there are constantly
whining about everything! Do I really need all this negative energy in my life?
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since I’m having exams until mid-February, then I’ll have to finish a couple
projects and a term paper, and I also aspire to hand in my thesis paper before
May 1<sup>st</sup>. As a result I need to work hard and use my time
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easy from me to lose touch with current affairs and news from all over the
world because of my hectic university schedule. Or, since I’ve moved in
Germany, to focus on the German and international affairs instead of reading up
on everything that is going on back home, in Greece. So, in 2015 I vow to read/
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">People say that time flies when you're having fun. Considering that I have no idea how there are less than two weeks left until 2015, I suppose I had lots of fun in 2014. Let's drink to that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...visiting new places. If I could summarize 2014 in a single quote, it would be Dalai Lama's </span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>"Once a year, go someplace you've never been before."</i></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I might have taken it a little too sternly, since I checked Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Strasburg, and Sifnos off my wanderlust list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... to saying "yes" to new things. For example, I watched at least 10 (!) world cup games this summer. Here's how I felt about it, more </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">or less:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But I'm still glad I did, since hadn't I, I'd never know how cute the Greek goalkeeper is (as well as pretty useless, if you ask me). </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I also went to a Medieval Fair.</span></div>
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forced to stop and watch a team of street dancers with very defined abdominal
muscles, but no apparent dancing skills. Eventually we leave and cross the
street, so we can (window) shop at more designer boutiques – LV’s store
occupies an entire block! In case you find yourself at Champs-Élysées, make
a short visit to this <a href="http://www.publicisdrugstore.com/" target="_blank">store</a>. It has an extensive collection of photo albums (of
other books, as well, but since they were all in French, I couldn’t fully
appreciate them) and all kinds of decorative and personal objects you don’t
really need, but they look so cute you wish you could buy them all
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whimsical world, the café is actually pretty quiet and frequented by locals. If
you find yourself there, try to find a table as close to the window (or even on
the pavement outside), since it’s the prefect vantage point from which to
observe the lively street market. <b>Interesting fact:</b> Amelie, Clotilde, Claire,
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full workout while in Paris? Climb up the <i><b>butte Monmarte</b></i> until you get to </span><b>Sacré-Coeur</b>! We laugh our way up and find ourselves a spot on the stairs
leading to the basilica, where we sit for a little to enjoy our well-earned
macarons and the view of Paris from above. It is pretty dark by that time, so
all you can see are the city lights. Since I’ve seen the same view
in the daylight, I’d strongly advise you to go there in the morning or around
sundown – you can see everything much clearer. Afterwards, we enter the church,
where mass is in progress. I’m not really religious, but I usually enjoy the
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to stop us from visiting <b>Notre Dame</b>. At this point, I have to admit that since
visiting La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, back in April, I’ve refused to be
impressed by any other church I’ve visited since. I’m never going to forget the
view from the top of Notre Dame, though. Nor the 457.999 steps we climbed up to
get to the top. And I thought the stairs at the <a href="http://fashionableflaneur.blogspot.de/2014/06/the-strasbourg-diaries.html" target="_blank">Cathedral of Strasburg</a> were endless!
When we get to the top, r<b>ainy Paris unfolds in front of our eyes in all its
glory</b>. We freeze, we get rained on, we take selfies all the time (enough to
piss off all the people standing behind us), we see no signs of Quasimodo, Esmeralda
or any singing/ dancing gargoyles, and then it’s time to leave. We leave Notre
Dame with shaky legs and head to the closest café for a much needed cup of hot
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Imagine book shelves that reach up to the ceiling, loaded with the prettiest
editions of all the classic and modern reads. The English speaker’s paradise in
the middle of Paris! I head upstairs, where someone is playing the piano and
people relax on torn leather couches, reading books. The books here are, unlike
the ones downstairs, not for sale. You can see for yourself in their </span><a href="http://blog.shakespeareandcompany.com/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%;"> and
</span><a href="http://shakespeare-and-companyparis.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank">tumblr</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%;"> page – they are both adorable!</span></div>
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would be living in a different city every year, e.g. doing an internship in
Berlin or Hamburg, then a master’s degree somewhere in the UK – I wish!, letting the job
search take me to new places, <i>flaneur</i>-ing
in central Europe. However, this bookshop left me longing ... for a permanent home.
The kind you fill with books you accumulate without worrying about having to
pack and unpack, sell, donate or gift them to friends when moving to a new
place. The kind you paint your walls the color you want and then cover them
entirely (because, let’s be honest, the color you picked does not look that
good in reality) with postcards, love letters, post-it notes, and fashion
editorials without thinking all the time you’ll need to take them down before
leaving. The kind you don’t have to split your belongings between two places.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>At Musée d'Orsay.</b> We’re finally here! I promised myself I won’t leave Paris
before visiting Musée d'Orsay. The building, <b>originally a railway station</b>, adds
an unconventional and fresh twist to the museum experience. My favorite part of
the museum is by far the collection of impressionist masterpieces on the 5<sup>th</sup>
floor. Another odd thing I’d like to pinpoint: Here, I find that the placing
and the lighting truly accentuates some of the paintings, such as <b>August Renoir’s</b>
<i><b>Bal du moulin de la Galette </b></i> and <b>Vincent van Gogh’s <i>Starry Night Over the Rhone</i></b>. A postcard of the first one is hanging over my desk
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d'Orsay I lose sense of time. We take the metro and get off at odd places
around the city of Paris; we go to <b>Batignolles</b>, get off at <b>Blanche</b>, walk through
<b>Quartier Pigalle</b>, the red light district of Paris, stop for drinks and snacks
somewhere along the way, then keep wandering until we get too tired and decide
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and I are in bed, our Fat Naked Guy (see <a href="http://fashionableflaneur.blogspot.de/2014/12/the-paris-diaries.html" target="_blank">The Paris Diaries Part 1</a>) is nowhere to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10:46 – I
wasn’t planning on writing about my last morning in Paris, since nothing
special happened. Until the moment I stepped inside a <b>French pharmacy</b> and fell
in love. Ok, not only with the artsy guy with the bleary eyes standing a couple
meters away in the queue at the cashier, but also with the all the French products
promising me everything from perfect skin to afterlife. The prices, the variety,
the 2-for-1 packages! I’m glad I had a list – and proud I stuck to it, because
otherwise I’d have to return to Germany on foot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Paris Est station. The cute Starbucks barista somehow manages to turn the “Valarmorghulis”
the cashier snarled at him into a poised “Katherine”. Close enough. He flashes
a smile as he hands me my vanilla latte, and wishes me <i><b>bonne journée. </b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-34239023782316552582014-12-09T15:34:00.001+01:002014-12-09T15:35:54.637+01:00The Paris Diaries<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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for my to-do lists when travelling abroad. They - as well as my determination to
check off all the boxes, can drive my co-travelers crazy, especially if they
are men. This “addiction” of mine originates from my affection for traveling
blogs, traveling guides and Instagram material posted by my favorite fashion
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leaving for Paris, I was under the impression that if one couldn’t come back
with a box of macaroons (I did) and a hefty photo collection of herself posing
nonchalantly in front of Eiffel Tower (I didn’t), then what’s the point in
visiting Paris after all? Sometimes one (ok, I) gets so caught up with visiting
the “10 Places in Paris You Can’t Afford to Miss” or doing “10 Things to Do
When in Paris” that forgets to experience the city in her own way, make her
own, perfectly unique and extraordinary experiences. Many of them might not be
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a walk down memory lane with <b>this unorthodox traveling diary post</b> and, beware, it is by
far not a guide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11:53 – Tingling
with excitement and expectations while sitting in <b>TGV train from Karlsruhe to
Paris Est</b>. The 60-year old French guy who sits next to me reads to <i>The New York Times</i> on his tablet and
just asked me to watch after his bag while he’s in the bathroom. In perfect,
accent-free English. What about the preservation and perpetuation of the
non-English speaking French population stereotype, I’ve been brainwashed with since
I was 12? What did I get myself into?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Waiting for time to pass while enjoying my first <b>“un café” in Paris at L' Âge
d'Or</b>, a cozy and somewhat hipster neighborhood café. I have a date with a
Bnbsitter, who is going to give me the keys to the apartment we rented through
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Bnbsitter is gone and I am home alone, since the others need more time to get
from the airport to “our” house. The place is so beautiful and luminous that I
wish I could talk the couple that rented it to us into adopting me. </span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">Photography
and modern art books everywhere, vinyl records, memorabilia, Polaroid photos,
colorful patterned textiles, an old camera collection and hand-written notes with
instructions all over the apartment.</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;"> Imagine Amelie’s flat if she had been a massive hoarder with an inclination for art.</span></div>
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are here! <b>Damn, I’ve missed E. so much.</b> (We’ve been friends since my Corfu
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padlocks! The sun goes down and the city turns it lights on, offering us a
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white for me, guzzling olives and talking about life, love, traveling, art and
the future. E. and her sister have abandoned us to go to a <b>Banks concert</b>. The
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are already in our pajamas, trying to figure out a plan for the following day,
when the two concert-goers storm in, clutching Banks memorabilia and the
characteristic McDonald’s paper bag. “Best show I’ve ever been to”, C. says
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and I are sharing the double bed in the main bedroom. <b>“Look, we have a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/21:33%20%E2%80%93%20J.%20and%20I%20are%20sitting%20in%20a%20bistro%20in%20Les%20Marais,%20sipping%20on%20wine%20%E2%80%93%20red%20for%20her,%20white%20for%20me,%20guzzling%20olives%20and%20talking%20about%20life,%20love,%20traveling,%20art%20and%20the%20future.%20E.%20and%20her%20sister%20have%20abandoned%20us%20to%20go%20to%20a%20Banks%20concert.%20The%20group%20is%20supposed%20to%20reunite%20later%20tonight%20at%20the%20apartment.%2023:12%20%E2%80%93%20We%20are%20already%20in%20our%20pajamas,%20trying%20to%20figure%20out%20a%20plan%20for%20the%20following%20day,%20when%20the%20two%20concert-goers%20storm%20in,%20clutching%20Banks%20memorabilia%20and%20the%20characteristic%20McDonald%E2%80%99s%20paper%20bag.%20%E2%80%9CBest%20show%20I%E2%80%99ve%20ever%20been%20to%E2%80%9D,%20C.%20says%20enthusiastically.%2023:58%20%E2%80%93%20E.%20and%20I%20are%20sharing%20the%20double%20bed%20in%20the%20main%20bedroom.%20%E2%80%9CLook,%20we%20have%20a%20Fat%20Naked%20Guy%20of%20our%20own%E2%80%9D,%20she%20says%20and%20shows%20me%20a%20guy%20walking%20around%20naked%20in%20his%20apartment%20in%20the%20building%20on%20the%20opposite%20side%20of%20the%20street.%20We%20play%20catch-up%20with%20each%20other%E2%80%99s%20(mostly%20love)%20lives%20until%20we%20fall%20asleep." target="_blank">Fat Naked Guy</a> of our own”,</b> she says and shows me a guy walking around naked in his
apartment in the building on the opposite side of the street. We play catch-up
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and I head out for food supplies, we need to prepare the snacks we’ll take with
us to stay energized throughout sightseeing. We buy <b>baguettes </b>and stroll
happily towards home, emulating the stereotypic Parisian scene of the person
who runs errands with a baguette in hand – does it function only as an
accessory or is it actually consumed? (We will later find out that real
Parisians only take their baguettes to the metro, which – if you ask me – is greatly
unhygienic and pretty odd, since why buy bread at the other side of the city
and carry it with you on a 30-minute ride, when there are boulangeries
literally <i>everywhere</i>?) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Musée de l'Orangerie.</b> After spending a substantial amount of time staring at
<b>Claude Monet’s <i>Water</i> <i>Lilies</i></b>, we head downstairs for a temporary
exhibition of <b>Emile Bernard</b> works. The museum also contains works by <b>Paul Cézanne,
Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Rousseau.</b> I
discover <b>Marie Laurencin</b>, probably the only woman who is exhibited in this
museum. Her work puzzles me, to be honest; it’s relatively old (she was born in
1883 and died in 1956), but it feels so modern, like something that could have
been done today. Please Google her and tell me what you think. I also discover
<b>Alfred Sisley</b>, whose thematic agenda bores me slightly, but I quickly learn how to
tell his works apart by way he uses light in his paintings– is that an odd thing to say?
This would prove helpful in Musee d’ Orday the following day. Before leaving I
fall in love with <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Paris-mythique-100-photos-l%C3%A9gende/dp/2840968452" target="_blank">a photographic album</a> with black and white photos telling about life in Paris in the first half of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lots of love and kisses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">F.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">PS: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/fashionableflaneur" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Facebook</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> anyone? </span><a href="https://twitter.com/kate__who" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Tweet</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> me maybe? </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">PS2: Now I'm also on </span><a href="http://instagram.com/katenkt" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Instagram</span></a><span lang="EN-US">!</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/4056/Black_in_Fashion_AnOthers_Top_Ten_Quotes" target="_blank">black</a>. Because black is the new black.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Sensible<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/253116441531860256/" target="_blank"> advice</a> from a father to his daughter.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.thecollegeprepster.com/2014/11/tips-for-writing-cover-letters.html" target="_blank">Great tips</a> in case you have to write a cover letter and don't know how to start or what to write about.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The multi talented Elisa Sednaoui - seductive <a href="http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/elisa-sednaoui-wears-seductive-looks-lofficiel-mexico-shoot/" target="_blank">here</a>, goofy and fun <a href="http://instagram.com/elisasednaoui" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Made me <a href="http://9gag.com/gag/ag03GnK?ref=fbp" target="_blank">laugh</a>. I guess I am one of these people.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Thinking about picking up a new language? Read <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2014/11/04/how-to-learn-a-new-language-7-secrets-from-ted-translators/" target="_blank">this</a> first.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">A tasty, nutritious and optically pleasing <a href="http://www.skinnytaste.com/2008/11/turkey-stuffed-peppers-45-pts.html" target="_blank">dish</a> - what more could you ask for?</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Some <a href="http://mic.com/articles/100466/13-feminist-comedians-prove-just-how-fun-challenging-the-patriarchy-can-be" target="_blank">thoughts</a> on feminism.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">In my wishlist: a dainty <a href="http://www.nastygal.com/sale/stranded-necklace" target="_blank">necklace</a>, a classy <a href="http://www.asos.de/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=4416622&CTAref=Saved+Items+Page" target="_blank">carryall</a>, a comfy<a href="http://de.boohoo.com/bekleidung/strickwaren/azz26056" target="_blank"> pullover</a>.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Seeing my name online makes all the <a href="http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/re-start-up-europe/article/germany-starving-for-female-entrepreneurship.html" target="_blank">hard work</a> worth it!</span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><u>The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared:</u> Every time I mention this book I can not help but notice a little ironic smile appearing on my friends' faces: <i>What kind of book title is that?</i> Trust me, it's only a small indication of Jonasson's fierce writing and imaginative storytelling - the plot twist will leave you thinking "how the hell did he come up with this?" I read his other book, <i>The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden,</i> first and got hooked on his incomparable ability to mock his own characters. I haven't finished reading it yet, but it's a must!</span></div>
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but this time the story was told from a feminine point of view, which is
something quite rare. This book is a great example of how difficult figuring
out how being an adult and putting your newfound “freedom” in good use can be.
I’ll have to stop reading books about Paris, though, since I’ve romanticized
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Kate Flâneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11010471193952654701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171679687973170928.post-13466762867531469562014-11-04T21:01:00.000+01:002014-11-04T21:01:10.646+01:00How to Navigate Freshmen Welcome Parties<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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freshmen welcome party two months before the actual party requires some serious
planning skills (CV material) and reveals an unquenchable thirst for partying. Living
in such a small city, where most of the important university events take place
on campus, has taught me that no chance to celebrate shall be wasted. That’s
why I made sure I was not going to miss this year’s freshmen welcome party.
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would have probably figured out the time parties kick in, when the dj is
playing the catchiest mainstream hits or some all-time classic everybody hates
that they know by heart (aka. secretly love), most people have plucked up the courage
to hit the dance floor, and the girls’ lipsticks are only slightly smudged,
leaving colorful evidence of alcohol consumption on plastic cup rims. Arriving
at a party at the actual starting time may feel a little awkward, since no one
but the organizers/bartenders/dj/wardrobe people are there, the music can be a little
un-dance-able, and everybody is <i>too</i>
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awkwardness and take a little extra time to get ready!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Where did my friends and acquaintances go?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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graduated or they think they can afford to miss the party. So go on – dance like
nobody’s watching! Okay, this is pretty much my #1 rule for all parties, but I
am the girl who thinks she can bust out moves like<a href="https://www.blogger.com/Booking%20a%20flight%20so%20as%20to%20arrive%20on%20time%20for%20the%20freshmen%20welcome%20party%20two%20months%20before%20the%20actual%20party%20requires%20some%20serious%20planning%20skills%20(CV%20material)%20and%20reveals%20an%20unquenchable%20thirst%20for%20partying.%20Living%20in%20such%20a%20small%20city,%20where%20most%20of%20the%20important%20university%20events%20take%20place%20on%20campus,%20has%20thought%20me%20that%20no%20chance%20to%20celebrate%20shall%20be%20wasted.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20I%20made%20sure%20I%20was%20not%20going%20to%20miss%20this%20year%E2%80%99s%20freshmen%20welcome%20party.%20After%20all,%20it%20is%20the%20last%20one%20I%20am%20going%20to%20attend%20and%20%E2%80%A6%20who%20is%20going%20to%20welcome%20these%20freshmen,%20if%20not%20us?%20As%20a%20result,%20I%20decided%20to%20compile%20a%20list%20of%20tips%20that%20will%20help%20you%20navigate%20the%20party%20in%20case%20you%20are%20an%20oldie,%20but%20goodie,%20like%20me:%201.Arrive%20late.%20By%20your%20second%20or%20third%20semester%20you%20would%20have%20probably%20figured%20out%20the%20time%20parties%20kick%20in,%20when%20the%20dj%20is%20playing%20the%20catchiest%20mainstream%20hits%20or%20some%20all-time%20classic%20everybody%20hates%20that%20they%20know%20by%20heart%20(aka.%20secretly%20love),%20most%20people%20have%20plucked%20up%20the%20courage%20to%20hit%20the%20dance%20floor,%20and%20the%20girls%E2%80%99%20lipsticks%20are%20only%20slightly%20smudged,%20leaving%20colorful%20evidence%20of%20alcohol%20consumption%20on%20plastic%20cup%20rims.%20Arriving%20at%20a%20party%20at%20the%20actual%20starting%20time%20may%20feel%20a%20little%20awkward,%20since%20no%20one%20but%20the%20organizers/bartenders/dj/wardrobe%20people%20are%20there,%20the%20music%20can%20be%20a%20little%20un-dance-able,%20and%20everybody%20is%20too%20sober,%20scanning%20everyone%20who%20arrives%20from%20head%20to%20toe.%20Spare%20yourself%20the%20awkwardness%20and%20take%20a%20little%20extra%20time%20to%20get%20ready!%202.Look%20relieved%20when%20you%20see%20a%20familiar%20face%20in%20the%20crowd.%20Freshmen%20welcome%20parties%20can%20be%20so%20confusing;%20all%20these%20new%20people!%20Where%20did%20my%20friends%20and%20acquaintances%20go?%203.They%20are%20either%20doing%20an%20Erasmus%20semester%20abroad%20or%20have%20graduated%20or%20they%20think%20they%20can%20afford%20to%20miss%20the%20party.%20So%20go%20on%20%E2%80%93%20dance%20like%20nobody%E2%80%99s%20watching!%20Okay,%20this%20is%20pretty%20much%20my%20#1 rule for all parties, but I am the girl who thinks she can bust out moves like this 4.If it is a thematic party, look the part. If you had said to my freshman self that she has to meet new people following this year’s dress code – bad taste – she would have openly rejected the idea. Honey, just a hint from your 21-year-old self: No matter how hard you try, German students always do it better when it comes to bad taste outfits. They just are more creative. But this year there were no impressions to be made; it was all about dressing up just for fun! Picture all the boring parties you will have to attend later as a properly dressed adult, stoically waiting for Halloween to dust of your costume-y outfits! 5.Do a little people-watching. Just to make sure that your class actually consisted of the best freshmen!" target="_blank"> this</a> AND <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpn30Pms8I#t=25" target="_blank">this</a> and get away with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this year there were no impressions to be made; it was all about dressing up
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I read online that <i>"life is too short not to have the underwear, the coffee, and the haircut you want". </i>Which, if you ask me, means a) black and lacy, b) huge and vanilla-latte-ish, and c) curly, messed up, looking like you just rolled put of bed. Sometimes the details can make a huge difference.</span><br />
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