I'll just pretend that I never left. Things in Paris continue to progress. The weather sucks. It's snowy and icy and the type of weather that makes you want to stay inside your tiny room, until you realize that there is no heat in your apartment, which wouldn't seem so bad if there was hot water, and it didn't constantly smell like acrylic spray paint. But enough for the complaints. I think I'm in Paris for the long run. The business seems to be going well and I get to write for a living, which is something I never imagined which would come to pass so quickly. I finally took a vacation. Found myself back in Asia, (Korea and Japan) where I ate mightily and reminisced with old friends. It was cold there too, and I lost a lot of cash on the mean streets of Tokyo. (The safest city in the world, I'm told). I took a few photos, mostly of the marine life in an Osaka aquarium. So I'll forever remember my journey with images of a japanese spider crab and some unhappy emperor penguins. I had battery issues with my camera, and hence the lack of photos from Tokyo. I'll try to post those eventually. Actually I'm thinking of giving a facelift to this website if I ever get around to it. There are entirely too many photos of me, and I don't really enjoy looking at the site. Also there are some archive issues, which I should remedy, seeing as the bulk of the content of the blog was written almost three years ago. Anyhoo, I was invited to a friends marriage in Saskatoon in July. Saskatoon is in Canada, Sasketchewan in fact. I looked it up on the map. I'm going to try to visit the Great White North and try to cap it off with a visit back to San Francisco, but we'll see if that works out. I received a visit from Leslie Brody, formerly my professor of Non-fiction writing back in college. She was happy to see that I now make a living writing trashy anecdotes and passing them off as pedagogical tools for French business people. It was nice to see her. The first non-Arnon to visit me in Paris, I'll have you know. Actually I'm taking suggestions for a new name for this site, slightly less self-indulgent than this one (Feel free to include such descriptives as the 'never updated' or 'long abandoned' 'barely breathing'.) I'm comfortable with that. Anything else I wanted to say? Oh yes, for all of you in San Francisco, my charming French cousine is now in the 'sco with few friends and not much to do. She wants to practice her English and just hang out, so if you think you could help her out, please get in touch with me, or call my house. That would be much appreciated. I'll be back.