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Emily

About Me

I live in Paris. Legally. I think I'm a hypochondriac. I also think I've suffered from the ebola virus, spinal meningitis, and laryngitis in the last month.

My Blog

The C.P.E. Chronicles

The mostly student-led protests against the C.P.E, or First Employment Contract, have been going on in Paris and around France for the past six weeks and the manifestants are committed to continuing t...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:01:00 GMT

french washing machine:1 me:0

My morning had been dedicated to the loathsome task of what I call milking my laundry. Milking laundry involves taking your soaking wet clothes out of a French washing machine, doing a preliminary...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:09:00 GMT

fish buying with big dave

Big Dave and I went to Half Moon Bay (to be refered to from now on as HMB) yesterday to buy some fish. It was a beautiful Fall day ---hurraah! Fall comes to California!!---and we got chai tea and I wo...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:51:00 GMT

awesome

  go here: http://french.about.com/library/bl-francoquiz.htm to see if you're a francophile or not
Posted by on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:47:00 GMT

Open Memo for Meridian Staff...

Dear Colleagues and Friends,        Please take a few moments to read over this memo which addresses some of the interesting new developments that have recently taken pla...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:23:00 GMT

mating avx connectors

Thanks god for technical difficulties, I've been denied access to the mother data base intranet HQ AVX Software interface!!! OWwwww!!! So I can't do my job and I can take the time to tell a funny stor...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:38:00 GMT

A case of the Tuesdays...

I was having a really bad morning, Sarah Bishop, but then I got an e-mail from a french amie and she said, "tres bien ton subjonctif" and I think things are starting to look up.... Also, everyone shou...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:05:00 GMT

wait for it.....

That's right, I logged in to my first ever "webinar" this morning. Just thought you'd be proud of me. And also Sarah Bishop- Emily is bringing a warm front all up in this piece. Watch out ext. 123.......
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:33:00 GMT

pityriasis

That's the name of my rash: pityriasis. But don't worry, it's not contageous. and it's not leporasy, even though I thought it was nice of sarah bishop to worry that it was. Dude, the rash is lame, but...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:17:00 GMT

de battre mon coeur s'est arrete

no blog for a little while now, so I'll take the last few minutes of my workday to say a few things: 1. Francois Truffaut is a true visionary 2. I have a rash on my stomach that's been around for a pe...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:57:00 GMT