love on the left bank

May 13th, 2010

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I have this really serious post started but between work and life I can’t find the mind-energy to sit and write it. Instead, I’m going to write about the thing that has been RULING MY MIND since I found out about it on Monday. I don’t even feel like it’s real, but we bought the tickets, so…WORK IS SENDING ME TO PARIS FOR A CONFERENCE. Well, technically the conference is in Germany, but we’re going to meet folks all over to learn more about the movement there and how consumers interact with it.

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We’ll be flying in and out of Paris and using it as our hub. I am so. so so so. Excited. Today I told S. I was more excited about going to Paris than I am about having a wedding. This is a fact, he was neither shocked nor offended. The wedding is just stressing me out, I’ve stopped thinking about it entirely and am assuming it might just happen even if I put no more effort into it. The point is, I’ve wanted to go to Paris much much longer than I’ve wanted to have a wedding.

I’ll have 5 extra days to wander & to stay with the very charming Mathyld, and I’ve been doing basically nothing but reading books about Paris, listening to French music, listening to Amelie on the headphones at work, answering all S’s questions in my horrible very bad French and other totally annoying COMPLETELY CRAZY OBSESSED THINGS.

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I have a list started of places! Macarons! Taxidermy shops! Museums! Picnics on the Seine! Eating croissants! Feeling old and chubs next to all the French ladies!! Being too embarrassed to speak! Setting myself up for extreme disappointment because I think it’ll be 1952 in Paris somehow!! YESSSSS.

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Did I mention FREAKING OUT?!!?

Where should I go? What must I see? What books should I read before I go?

{photos by Ed van der Elsken except for the Funny Face screenshot}

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