Te pardi !

[castalie]

Hello flist, I'm back from Duras. Back to Choisy, back to the city, back to the concrete and the buildings, and it fills me with glee. I'm just the kind of city girl that does love being in the country, but only if she knows, for a fact, that she'll come back to civilisation the grey and pollution that makes her home soon-ish. Or else, she just wants to cry. Being in the country is fine and dandy, it's all green as if the whole world was made of pastures and trees and valleys and there are cows and sheeps and horses and the sky has stars all over and you can even see the milky way and it's so very gorgeous but it's also freaky because dude! The nights? Are too dark! They're dark, without-any-light dark *wide eyes*

Since everything is numbers, during that second week we met with eighteen cousins, went to two markets, drove to one city and cruised a dozen villages. We also admired a dozen churches and one castle - Henry IV's in Nerac - and eighty-two 163 pictures were taken, some of which I'll share as soon as I have time to play with my bugbitten account.

Oh and I love the way they talk too; not just the accent which is so charming but the vocabulary; it's 'te' and 'pardi' and 'drole' all the time. They say 'drole' for 'enfants/kids' a lot. Some of them say 'force fois' for 'souvent/often' etc... I just love that :-)

Also, six books were read. No wait, the six books were read over the course of the two weeks as I could only read two books the second week since we were always somewhere else: Alien Taste and Tainted Trail which are definitely not great literature but a lot of fun anyway, Le Temps n'est Rien [aka The Time Traveller's Wife] which sucked me in like you wouldn't believe, it's a beautiful, haunting story which I highly recommend. Then, A Study in Scarlet, because sockich's recent reading of Sherlock Holmes made me want to go and re-read Conan Doyle's work, Good Omens, which is pure gold and made me love Neil Gaiman even more - not an easy feat at all - and made me want to buy more Terry Pratchett asap and, finally, the first volume of the Fortune de France series which is made of awesome too and tickled me pink because lots of the villages they spoke about in the novel were places I'd visited myself and, considering the time and place, they also say 'drole' for 'kids' :-) Also, I love that part of our History.

Anyway, I had a wonderful time during my holidays, though I'm always glad to be back home because, you know, it's home :-)

Okay now, off to watch my first download - Kyle XY whee! - and then Clark will have to be a good boy and download everything else I missed. You go, Clark!

Comments

[marecagee.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! Prison Break minus 4 days!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! So did I miss a lot of things during my two weeks away? I sometimes wonder whether a flist really goes that fast or if things always stay the same, after all *g* On the other hand, I'm too scared to even try catching up on my flist after two weeks lol

And hee I know! I've just checked the Tele7Jours - woohoo!

[marecagee.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, I was away for a few days too, so I can't give you detailed news, but here are a couple of things:

- Sad news first: Stargate has been canceled. SG1, not Atlantis. There may or may not be another spin-off/tv movie/something in the future. Just check more the journals of some more active fans.

- spn_gleeweek. Looks like fun, starting tomorrow.

The latest episode of SGA apparently sucked, and, erm, things happened in the season premiere of Prison Break. I'll let you check that out yourself, as I don't know where you stand on spoilers.

And dude, they explained everything about the tattoo in the trailers on M6! Fucking idiots. But: three episodes! Who-hoo!

[marecagee.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there's a new Jared/Jensen interview floating around, where the boys joke about not being paid enough for their hard work, and where Jared mention that Jensen spends forever in the shower. Goes like this, IIRC:
"What do you do in there, anyway?"
"Hey, there's a lot of me to wash, okay?"

Which had everyone being all: Hee! And: aww! *g*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Hee and aww is right lol Thanks, you're a doll *g*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

SG has been cancelled? Damn. On the other hand, well, okay, ten seasons is already impressive enough but no more new SG after this season? This is the end of an era!

Thanks for the comm, I'll check it out.

I'm spoiler free for PB s2 so I appreciate that you didn't tell me anything :-)

They did? Hey M6, why don't you just give away every little detail in your trailers, eh? But okay, they're airing the series in the first place, so let's not be too mean...

[maaaaa.livejournal.com]

you'rebackyou'rebackyou'reback...

weee! yay! *hugs and smoocheroo's*

Sounds like you had fun. There are French people in France that speak with a French accent?? *is confused*

I loved The Time Traveller's Wife. Made me cry it did.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Hee Maaaaa I'mbackyes *tackleglomp*

I did have fun :-)

There are French people in France that speak with a French accent??

I guess I didn't explain it well enough, sorry. You know how you have different accents in the US? It's the same here, is what I was saying *g* The 'accent du midi' is one of the sweetest accents in France, imho. Or were you asking about something else? Or were you joking? In that case, er don't mind me lol

I loved The Time Traveller's Wife. Made me cry it did.

You and me both!

[maaaaa.livejournal.com]

Or were you joking?

You *have* been away too long! It's *me*, of course I was teasing!

*smooch*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You *have* been away too long! It's *me*, of course I was teasing!

Lol Well, when considering French!stuff, I prefer playing it safe and not assuming anything. Though, yeah, I should have known lol

[ninkasa.livejournal.com]

Dude, I actually said today, "I wonder when Mouse is coming back?" *glompage*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Aww *tackleglomp*

[sockich.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE BACK! *smooches*

I'm glad you had a good time and I got your card and it's gorgeous and I totally get the whole loving-the-country-but-needing-to-get-back-to-the-city thing and and ZOMG YOU'RE BACK!!! *g*

Since everything is numbers

This made me giggle. ;)

And, like I said to popeiathehippo a couple of days ago, Time Traveler's Wife seems to be haunting me, so I guess it's really about damn time I read it.

And you're re-reading SH! *glee* You might wanna check out nekosmuse's Decoding The Subtext Essays, because they are a thing of beauty.

And omg, I can't wait for you to watch Kyle XY because dude, if I didn't already love it to itty bitty pieces, these two eps would make sure of that. FOSS! ♥

In conclusion, you were missed, welcome back. *g*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You got the card, yay \o/

Oh yeah, you really need to read that book! I'm not saying you'll like it but you have to try it at least! Also, that was one of my Book of Fate, you know? Like you I heard about it one too many time on my flist and decided it was fate telling me to read it and I did and I'm so glad, too. So in other words, go ahead *g*

Thanks for the link to Neko's essays.

*kiss kiss*

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

*glomps* Welcome home, hun! I'm glad you had a good holiday, you definitely deserved it!

I agree with your assessment of Alien Taste and Tainted Trail ^_~! I'm adding The Time Traveller's Wife to my must read list, and I'm so happy you love Good Omens too! It is a great book ^_^!

I got your email, I'll reply in a bit ^_~!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, ma belle!

I'm adding The Time Traveller's Wife to my must read list

Great move, Tai, that book... it was just incredible. People kept talking about it on my flist - people who didn't have anything to do with one another - and so I decided enough was enough and I had to read it too... and I was so not disappointed!

Take your time :-)

[french-hobbit.livejournal.com]

So glad you're back! Glee!

I've a rec for you: The Director’s Secret Assistant by Bijou: annoying but cute Dave, and very funny first part *g*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

It's good to be back, believe me!

And thanks for the rec, that was awfully funny and cute and sexy and hot :-)

[starwatcher]

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Welcome back! I missed you.

While you were gone, I posted a new story -- with illustrations, no less! Links are here --

http://starwatcher307.livejournal.com/135305.html?nc=2
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[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, mate, it's good to be missed :-)

And thanks for the link! I'll tab the story for later read today *g*