On Saturday, one of my friends, who happens to have a car, suggested that we go somewhere. In our very prepared way we decided to go to Annecy. However, none of us thought about finding directions or even having a map. So, we decided to do the next best thing: just drive. We left about 3 in the afternoon, with the promise of rain from the weatherman, with no idea how to get to Annecy. As we left the house we saw a sign that said : Evian, this way. With that small sign our plans changed. We decide to go to Evian instead. As you may, or may not, know Evian water comes from a town in France on Lac Léman (Lake Geneva in English). We drove the 30 or so kilometres to Evian. (With a stop in a small French bakery for a baguette and a Swedish sandwich). The whole trip was rather beautiful. It is amazing to think that I can on a whim just decide to spend a Saturday afternoon driving around the French countryside.
We found the "source" of Evian water, we wandered around the small town a bit, had a picnic of the bread and cheese that we bought in a "fromagerie" that smelled of feet, as all good cheese shops should. We also sat in a small cafe and drank coffee and ate crepes. The weather, obligingly, was warm and sunny. (The weathermen were decidedly wrong, as they usually are here in Geneva. They had predicted a cold, rainy weekend. Instead, we had very warm weather with little to no rain. It was actually a gorgeous weekend.) Our spur of the moment tip to Evian was worth it.
As for work, I am still working on Student World. I am spending a lot of time going through old articles. Some of them are fascinating. Some are boring. Some are racist - although I am judging them by my very post-modern deconstructionist standard. Some are laughable. It is a joy to read these articles and see what people in my Federation thought so long ago. Very interesting.
Monday, June 29, 2009
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i love reading old stuff. even the racist-sounding stuff. environments and beliefs were different in the past, and what sounds outrageous now sounded differently to many people (most people actually) back then. a good way to think about how weird this is is to imagine that 100 years from now people will be reading books from our era and will find some things totally outrageous, that by definition we hardly think is significant at all. maybe they will discover that entire life forms on other planets are wiped out when our tv transmissions finally reach them and fatally interfere with their life processes, and here we are obliviously sending out reruns of three's company to the entire universe with nary a thought, all so that we can chuckle for 30 minutes on our comfy sofas. (i dont know any new tv programs, you young'uns will have to fill in with an appropriately modern TV show).
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