I am taking a break from this blog, and from blog-reading and participation for a while. I am incredibly busy and simply don't have the time to engage in blogging until I meet a big deadline in a few months.
It's funny, though I had the blogger ID for a while, I never did anything with it. I started this blog on a whim after returning from a trip to Paris, and being somehow unable to let go. I thought I would just write a post here and there to 'get it out of my system' and that would be it. What I did not anticipate was the interaction with other people being so interesting and rewarding.
I thought about deleting the blog, but that would be a shame. I want to come back as I really feel that I have been enriched by the contact with people from all over the world with a shared passion. I have removed my blog from my profile for now, and am wrapping the blog in tissue paper until such time as I am ready to return and continue 'enthralling' you all with my little life stories .
In the meantime, I won't be commenting on your blogs as I really need to be strong and get my work done. Some of you know I am completing a PhD and a novel at the moment. I've been lucky enough to secure six months funding to finish the task, and I don't want to waste a minute of that. Between parenting responsibilities, writing, and academic work, there's not much space left. Added to the mix, I am also working on a 'plan' to get me back to France. Part of that plan entails learning the language, the other part of the plan is top secret classified information for the moment.
I wish you all well with your various adventures over the next few months. I know there are books being written, major life changes under way, and all manner of adventures being played out as I write. I hope that in a few months I can come back, and spend some time catching up what people have been up to, and perhaps pick up where we left off.
à bientôt
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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A bientôt, Michelle, and good luck with all your projects!
I am happy you didn't delete your blog. It will be here waiting for you once you have your PhD and your novel completed. You will be missed. Good luck with your projects.
All the best, Michelle, and perhaps we'll have a drink together in Paris when all is said and done!
Have a good wind, Michelle! I won't wish you 'bonne chance' but, in the usual French way, will tell you 'Merde' instead. See you in Paris some day hopefully (if you dare to send a mail before you come).
trés bon courage avec vos projets. Si je peux aider avec votre retour vers la France, demandez-moi !
bises ~
Ah, thank you all, lovely people. Funny thing, I am starting to feel that itch to enthral the people of blog land with my talk of nothing much-at-all in between work bursts, so watch this space.
(I've also been somewhat guilty of peeking at blogs, too)
So? How is your itch doing? Aren't you in a hurry to scratch? As a nudge in the right direction, here are a few lines from the blog I am writing at the moment. I let you be the first to read them, lucky one.
You began blogging for some reason. Over the years, you thought of giving up several times. After all, what the heck! You stopped blogging then, a couple of times, but you always resumed, when withdrawal symptoms appeared.
At the end, you are still here. You keep on writing about topics you are interested in, you write down thoughts of yours, or something someone else once said. Most often in fact, what you publish is not dedicated any more to the few people who will read it. It is just something you need to do, "because".
A bientôt, Michelle !
Billy, Ah what an interesting and timely post you are writing.
I am indeed feeling the itch. If I didn't have the flu right now (regular, not swine), I'd have posted by now.
I look forward to reading your post, and feeling well enough to string a few coherent words together myself soon.
Oh, I mustn't forget to tell you that I was only aware of the 'other' use of the word 'Merde' and was slightly taken aback at your first comment. However, I suspected you were too much of a gentleman to use it in that context and did my research. So, I guess you have now officially contributed to my language studies.
Aw... Sorry about the misunderstanding, yet I am glad to be now an official contributor to your language studies (is there a badge, or something?).
We say 'Merde' instead of 'good luck' as you would say 'break a leg' in English, if I am not mistaken. It is of common use in French. 'Good luck' is supposed to bring bad luck, on the opposite. That is, supertitious persons think so, and I am not supertitious myself (fortunately, because, as everyone knows, being superstitious brings back luck).
(err... 'brings bad luck')
I hope that all your hard work is going well and paying off. It is good to turn away from the roar of the crowd when the need to focus calls. We'll be out here, or someone very like us will be, when you resurface.
Very best of luck with bringing your work to completion on all fronts.
Amitiés,
I know you're on hiatus, but couldn't help but leave you a comment because I was attracted to your blog name.
Once upon a time, there was a 20-something yr old American girl living in Los Angeles feeling an ennuie that couldn't be alleviated until she moved to Paris. She sold all of her belongings except for the clothes that she could fit into her luggage. She lived for a year near Le Pont Alexandre et Les Invalides, rue St. Dominique, le 7eme. Her adventures deserve to be recounted in a book someday. Her year in the City of Lights took place before blogs. One day, Emily (A-mee-lee, as the French say) was invited to the home of an aristocratic French famille. In order to get to their residence she had to walk down mysterious unmarked alleyways. She came to a dead end which was a 2-story wall with enormous Kelly-green painted doors. She pressed the intercom button and spoke to the housekeeper inside. She heard a beep and the doors opened slowly. Much to her amazement she saw a one and a half story free standing white HOUSE in the middle of Paris! The house was hundreds of years old and beautifully decorated. It was like an elegant cottage. Even more surprising than discovering a free standing house in Paris, the backyard boasted a lush green lawn with trees, bushes, and flowers.
I'm not sure if any other free standing houses exist in the center Paris. I just wanted to let you know that I have actually been in an old house in Paris covered in vines...for real!
" This is Perth
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Darn it, but well, there's always hope. After all, I have been in a "blogging big black hole" again for several weeks myself. We shall wait a bit more until you come back. *Smiles*
Emily in Sac, Thank you for taking the time to tell me your story. I loved reading it, and hope one day to see that old house :-)
Ah Billy, I see did not get away with my posting and then removing it without being noticed.
I made a very lazy post and removed it quickly.
But, I am going to resume very for soon. I have just been away by myself for the first time on over a year, and it got me to thinking. . . now to see if I can follow the thinking with some writing.
I have peeked in on your blogs. I have been a lazy commenter in my current 'introvert' status. But I am reading my favourites.
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