I got one of these emails by Amazon.fr, giving me ideas of what to buy ... what "they think I might be interested in"

Here:
I didn't know they were doing guides and I really wonder what's in there. Tips to get to the fanciest parties? Haute Couture addresses? Hilton reviews?
I'm apparently uncultivated because they've been around for quite a long time...

(Oh and I almost forgot, I think they proposed it to me because I looked for a French translation of the rough guide the other day.). 

Today is the International Women's day ... Not that I'm all for the concept. Like Men have all the other days let's give one to say it's bad discriminate against someone because of gender.

But Man!

I just spent 15 minutes reading a selection of the most misogynist remarks in French medias this year. And I'm utterly amazed/revolted by this.
God knows there were women in the light this year ... Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin on an international view and some Ségolène Royal, Martine Aubry powerfight in a French point of view. 
I don't agree with most of these women, some of them I hate the image they're trying to give of themselves.
But I will never accept someone saying "Go back to your oven and children and let's men do men's jobs!". To be frank I sometimes forget there is such a thing as misogyny nowadays. I'd like to be able to say to my children if I ever have some "Misogyny? Yeah that's an old concept. Nobody thinks like this anymore"

But ...

I won't translate the article who made my blood run cold: but using words such as sow, boudin (= blood sausage, but in this context ugly woman), talking about the way one woman was drag into mud while refering to a human being is not OK, it should never be ok. 
I don't remenber reading an article about a man against whom the only accusations would have been his looks.

Maybe this is a French thing (as scandaloussteph  suggested it last night), maybe not. But I'm just sick of it all, sick of having to fight twice as much when I want to propose my ideas than the average guy. Sick of seeing my ideas dismissed because I'm not as pretty as the girl next to me ... (who gave the same ideas, but happens to have long legs and cleavage to go with it).

To anyone who speaks French, I strongly advise you to go and read this thing. They classified the attacks by types, showing very clearly you can read articles without noticing the strong gender stereotypes they're using.

They gave the Oscar to Paris' Bishop...
Someone who dared say something like "The problem is to find educated women. The thing is not to wear a dress, it's to have a brain."
And yes there was a context to this sentence ... but even in context it's not justified ...


Oh and my favorite :
"Feminists are not only bossy women or frustrated bitch, they're also lesbians!"

So true to myself ... I'm going to ask this nice man, and what's the problem with that?

Anyway ... I apologize for this non-related to fandom post. But I just had to get this out of my system.
(and in a way, after my late conversation with lauriestein  last night, I think some people in House fandom are really women haters, which is weird considering fandom is made of 99% of Female writers/fangirls/artists)

J'ai retrouvé ça sur mon ancien disque dur ... Je l'avais fait à l'époque (y'a environ deux ans ...) Le voilà actualisé avec des chansons neuves.

Les règles sont les suivantes :

* Allumez iTunes sans sélection au préalable et pressez le mode « aléatoire ».
* Appuyez sur « suivant » à chaque nouvelle question.
* Utilisez le titre du morceau apparaissant comme réponse à la question, même si cela n’a pas de sens. Pas de triche !
* Commentez ces réponses pour expliquer comment elles se relient à vos questions.

(c'est un peu faussé étant donné que y'a pas mal de trucs que j'écoute sur CD qui sont pas dans mon itunes ... mais bon toute façon 26 chansons ... c'est peu)



MDR, la prochaine question aurait eu le droit à Special Needs ... spécial c'est le cas de le dire.

Soooo ... At first I wanted to do this RPF thing between HL and LE. I had the plot bunny and all. But it didn't work out.
Instead I ended up writing this. I think I won't post it anywhere else (I'm soooo ashamed).
The idea came from the spoiler pictures which have been flooding the internet since last week but even if you haven't seen them you can read this ... there's no real spoiler in this.

Oh and I got to mention it : This is a birthday present for lauriestein 
(They say it's the feeling which counts not the present itself ... I hope it's true)

Title : The day David Shore ask them not to write about the show.
Author : scolastik
Disclaimers : I do not own House. And all the events which are depicted here are purely fictional. 
Spoilers : As I said it's inspired by the pictures which have been flooding the spoilers sphere lately
Rating : PG-13

Warning : No beta, all mistakes are mine ... and there might be some since nobody betaed this.

Summary : No summary, the title is expressive enough.



( The Day David Shore ask them Not to write about the Show )


7 minutes after midnight GMT ... (not that bad ...)

My parents are already there so I don't have much time (already listening to my mother's alternative medicine theories ...)

I stole this from lauriestein  :

THEVALENTINE'S♥DAYPOSITIVE♥FEEDBACKMEME: MY THREAD

I think this is a great idea. You always need some love. So just =) spread the love.
And I think I'm gonna go to bed ... My parents are so exhausting ...

</lj>

I just need someone when it gets dark.
Someone to tell me it's gonna be ok.
Someone to hold my hand.


( Basically you can pick any song from this playlist ... and it's gonna be a sad one. Some of them are well known, some of them are not. I was just feeling like doing this. (I'm sure I forgot a lot of the ones I'm used to listen to in these cases) )

I don't usually do stuff like that. It's just ... I wanted to post a playlist for a while now it's done...

Looking for a new country ...

I finally took some time to watch our beloved president speech. Needless to say I found it dumb. Journalists are getting on my nerve. Sarkozy is making me sad. The funniest thing is when some countries are questionning the all liberal economical system ... (see the US in some ways) Sarkozy is still basing his argument on this goal : reaching the totally free market. (oh he doesn't say it like that ... of course, I think it's the subtext though). --> see health system, work hours ...

What he says about school in the beginning of his interview made me jump off my chair. I agree with him when he says people choose maths without appreciating them. (I chose litterature and languages while loving maths but I'm a bad example).  But the other things he says ... just dumb.

And all these simplification it makes me sick. Because sometimes I noticed he is lying or knowingly forgetting some importants facts. Thing is I'm not aware of everything so I know I must be buying big lies ...

Oh and this is so great ... blaming the US for the financial crisis. Like "hey without them we would be fine". I'm soooo ashamed of that

And I'm so sick of all this "We're in a crisis." with journalists emphasizing it, politicians saying it's the "Century Crisis".

Genius this century is only 9 years old.



Anyway, and the opposition is making way even sadder.

We have Segolène Royal who's saying she can be in charge of the Overseas territories. A week ago she said she wanted to be European Deputy of my European Region (I'm not really sad she dumped us though).
She doesn't give us any proposition, she just says she is able to deal with it because she has lived there for a while ...
Big Deal I'm living in Belgium, that doesn't mean I'm able to solve their political crisis.


We also have François Bayrou, who is mainly fantasizing about becomming President who is now saying the Worst thing that could happen to France is becomming a ful member of the NATO again ...Such a bad thing ... That's surly the worst problem we're facing right now. I'm unfair with him ... I didn't watch everything he said but he's making me sad. I was part of his party for a while so I'm even more angry when I see this.


So here is my new request :
Does any country has some politicans who don't suck ? Where I could come to settle ?


Another thing :
I'm in a Abba phasis so don't be surprised if the titles of my entries are kinda weird.

Following things are spoilerish. If you haven't watched the sneak peeks for House 5x15. Don't read what's following.

( Am I allowed to dream ... )

I just realised I didn't post the pictures I did with marciavandecamp , back in Dusseldorf :)
So I'm just posting this to thank her again for the way she welcomed me in her nice city ...

( Read more... )

These were taken in Düsseldorf Hauptbanhof.

Being back to university tends to drive me to insanity.

I had one class on European Studies which was rather interesting. Teacher is kinda cool.
We spent the whole hour on the State theory (maybe the 20th time someone presented it to me but ... the class was interesting so ...)

Then I had one class named "Etat et gouvernementalité en Afrique". And the teacher is just crazy ...

It began with her nice remark when we enter the room 10 minutes late. "Next time I closed the door and nobody come inside after I said it". I had a class at the other side of university. And it ended at 4, while this one began at 4 ... But this is not important. I'll figure something out.

Then she began her show ...

Things like "Ooooh pleaase be there for the last course, I just looooove that course" or "Mugabe is a great example, I love Mugabe, I took him as an example last year, I thought it would be other now, but he is unfortunately still around. Though, who knows, maybe God will take care of it.". 
Or "Today's class is boring to death. Now you're warned"
And another "No books in the bibliography is mandatory, except mine because I just loooooooove that book".

Then she began giving definitions : State, Democracy, Power (why do all teacher think they're the first one to teach us Weber's theory ?)
And when she was giving us Weber's classification of legitimity. She just said something like "For example Sarkozy was elected legally, unfortunately !"
And "I'm not afraid to say it I've got no respect whatsoever for Mr Sarkozy"
And she went on and on comparing him to Mugabe or Putin ... And saying he was the worst president ever. (and contradicting herself but I won't go in the details ^^')

I was just astonished. I don't know whether she's Belgian or not. I don't care.
I dislike Sarkozy a lot. But I'm just angry someone can say something like that in a classroom. I've always thought you can't be neutral in Social Sciences and you better give your point of view so readers or students can see where you stand ... But you don't have to publicly declare your disrespect toward a someone who has been elected.
And this goes for Bush and Berlusconi.
If you give me a detailed argumentation ... I'm ok. If you give hate feelings I just can't agree with it.

And I wasn't offended in my vote or anything. I didn't vote for him in 2007. It's just I don't know ... I found it iritating and inappropriate. 


On a lighter note :

Ségolène Royal wants to be the list's leader in my Euroregion for the European Elections ... Somehow the whole idea of giving my vote to the socialists just disappeared.

There were many other things in today's news which made me laugh sooo hard or cry with anger (Pick the one you love the most). But ... anyway I guess French politicians are not that brilliant.

Oh and I don't know why, Le Monde seemed to have developped some kind of really hard addiction to Russia ... They're talking about it in at least two articles a day on their online version ...

While my pictures are uploading I indulge myself a little and make a really geeky entry. I've to mention this isn't really what I should do. I've got millions others things I could do ... I think my flatmate and her friend are getting high in the other room. I could be studying, I could be writing the cracking NC17 SM thing I began (yes I'm disturbed) I could send an email to lauriestein  or I could be sleeping ... But since I'm fun this way ... I'm gonna obsessed about House or should I say Cuddy ...

If I'm motivated enough I'll tell you what I think about the situation in The L Word ... They should rename this "the non-sense show" that would fit better.

Anyway if you want my smart brilliant analysis (understand : dumb and pointless)

( Please go under the cut (Spoilers up to The Greater Good) )

Must be really bored ... I just voluntary spent half my afternoon studying. (it's not extraordinary). It's just that I went back to University only this morning ... And Exams are very far away (or at least they seem far away)

Anyway I chose a class about Political parties and lobbys ... Bad news : the teacher has decided to focus on parties instead of lobbys. Good news : Teacher is Great.  Class is interesting, even if for now, we saw things I already knew.
But he gave us something to study for the final exam a book which sums up each and every politcal system in Europe (as well as the political forces at stake). Most of the students already read the book ... (it's a 450-page study, this seemed big but when you think about it, it's nothing 27 countries in 450 pages). I didn't. We're supposed to focus on the parts concernings the parties. Anyway I started, and this is rather interesting and easy. Some countries I already know quite well. Some others I just don't have a clue what parties they have.
And we'll also focus on rural parties. Boring at first ... but I think it can be interesting. Just to see how different they can be. (I have quite a few examples in my mind).

Also, this is my brother's birthday today ... I called him. And he didn't remember how old he was. He is priceless. :)

I'm still trying to figure out how to post my pictures here. I'll sum up my trip while waiting for House this evening :) (Yeah did I mention it, no class until 2pm on Tuesday) which means House at 2am) I'm both a geek and a fangirl and I know it ...

Oh and I don't know what's happenning to me, but I got a fic/novel/short story idea everyday ...
I've got something totally AU about House. My Strokes series ...
And lately I thought about something original (in the sense not linked to any fandom), something comical on rather serious topic ...
Also while reading Schopenauer I got an idea for House but I'm not sure how to make it work ...

And I don't think half of it will be written one day

Anyway ...

This is not a proper entry ... This is just my thoughts about something I've seen in Russia ... or notice about myself ...

Things about ...

- Moscow subway

Never seen a more efficient one, one train every minute. Stations are really far away from each other though, especially in the suburbean areas which lead to a lot of walking.

- Me in a foreign environnement

It feels strange not to understand anything said/written/sung. But this is not a bad thing. This is like a black-out. You have to think and when people speak English (let alone French) again you're feeling different.

- Me and Russian Vodka

More efficient than Penthotal. This stuff could make me scream my deepest darkest secrets out loud. I can't be trust to drink "just one shot"

- My luck when I travel

If you want to visit monuments/museums ... Don't bring me with you. When I plan to visit something, it's always exceptionally closed.

- Moscow being a white city

Might be true when it's - 35°c. But otherwise the melted snow makes it muddy and dirty. Just ask my pants/boots ... They'll tell you.

- Moscow being a cold city

The lowest temperature I got might have been -7°c which is really bearable. Of course it was something like the warmest winter in Moscow so it helped.

- My orientation skills

What can I say? They rock! (even in Moscoww ^^)

- Flying to the West

I find it it nice to get sunset  for 3 hours (almost) Looking forward to my flight to the US.

- My weird souvenir buying/collecting habbits

little cards, transport cards, napkins...
I think I'm getting worse 'cause I even started a new collection : Starbucks city mugs and  I bought two Tatu CDs

- My weird pictures

I'm absolutely getting worse. I'm taking pictures of brand names in order languages and alphabets and the food I eat.

- Planes

I'm not afraid of flying, really not. Flying is the safest wat of traveling for me. The whole Borders/Check-ins/Boarding stresses me out of my mind though.
In Russia it was worse than anything I ever heard of ... People just don't speak any language except Russian at the border ...
But anyway Flying with Death Cab for Cutie was amazing ... And Gotta be Somebody when we were just arriving to Dusseldorf with all the lights of the city ... was just GREAT.


Also : two things
- What's the best solution to post pictures on lj (I mean many pictures ... ) ?
- I'm thinking about buying an ipod touch (or asking for my birthday). Is it worth the price. Or should I settle for an ipod classic ? 

Right about now ... 

Anyway .... this crappy entry is just to let you know that I'm back. With all the cleaning/laudry it meant and all the nostalgia (though not for all my trip ^^) it also meant.

So if you have something really important to tell me :) Feel free to comment (and even if you don't, if you just missed me, you can also say it)

To Come really soon :

- A Pictures entry with some beautiful ones and mainly stupid ones (because I'm crazy)
- An entry with all my thoughts about random things I met during my trip
- A proper entry about the things I visited (or not)

And
- An entry about my thoughts about this week's episodes xD

I love moscow I've been here for less than 24 hours I'm currentlty using a crappy computer with a qwerty keyboard which is confusing  me sooooo much but I've seen the Red Square and the Kremlin : this is charming. I've eaten Russian specialities (pancakes really  ^^) and bought two tATu cds xD. The city is really dirty though with all the melted snow (Im in the center now so its warmer than other places like the airport where there was a lot of snow) and Im falling every two mimutes which is ba because I cant risk being sick .... Insurance companies here ... dont wanna think about it ( I did what wa necessary don't worry I just don't like the paperwork)

My friend has an exam this morning and with the hour difference and everything I've only got up at 12 so now I think I wont go out until she comes back ... Anyway I went check my mails saw something about the SAGs and here I am flailing (instead of freezing)

Oh two more things my saturday in Dusseldorf with marciavandecamp was amazing (looking forward to seeing you again on Friday)

And there has been a explosion in a University Dorm in the city where my best friend studies (Im kinda worried). If anyone knew the gender of the wounded ones ....

Some just don't notice it ...

Just watch United State of Tara ... (in my attempt to stay awake. No point going to bed right now, I'm leaving in 2 hours ...)
I think I like this show. I mean it's Showtime, so no wonder it's catchy and you get some really smart and sometimes inappropriate (as much as I loathe this word) retorts ... which is a good thing ... 
But I think there's more to it ... I don't know if I have time I might be going to follow this. Or I might wait 'til this summer ... I will see.
I guess I would have time for a big entry, but my brain is blurry, can't really do it ...

Still 2 hours to kill ...
Pretty sure I cand find a good fic somewhere or maybe go read the Gun Seller ... (yeah I'm a fangirl)

Anyway ... I think I've done pretty much everything I wanted except maybe printing the lyrics of the song for the series about the Strokes. I hope I'm gonna finish this ...

So Still two hours to kill ... Need to find something to do.

I'm leaving my appartment in 5 hours and 20 minutes ...

And my though right now is : "should I go back to black nail polish ?"
Isn't it sad ?

Maybe I should explain the roots of the dramatically deep reflexion ... I used to wear black nail polish all the time, as long as black clothes, kinda goth really. Red or Purple hair ... I was a little scary at some point in my life. The thing is black nail polish wasn't this fashionable at the time. I remember putting a dark blue one at school and I was the weirdo for one day. (teenagers are lame ...). And now I've come to notice it's fashionable, most of my fashion-follower friends are wearing it (I must say, they're desperate concerning my clothes tastes ...), and celebrities too ... (take Lisa)


Anyway after this way interesting reflexion about my nails ... I just wanted to make a post there to say goodbye to you guys (or gals ?) ... Cause as said earlier I'm not gonna be there for a week. Yeah I know warning is lame ... But I kinda like posting without any purpose at all ...

If I had time I would make a really big post about Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice and the way Thursday night on abc is becoming "debate time"... ( And ... (spoilers ahead House for end of season 5, Bones 413) )And I could bitch about Izzie ...

Anyway you guys take care.

My new Hugh icon is really adapted to the situation ...
I just realise : Friday is gonna be the death of me ... 

As a matter of fact ... 
I have to :

- Do some cleaning, if I want to have the opportunity to rant over my flatmate bad cleaning/tidying habbits, I should clean this place
- Buy Moisture, Ibuprophen and throat tablets (but maybe I can do it in Germany, I must see ...)
- Pack my suitcase
- Dowload the stuff Virginie wants me to bring to Russia
- Print my bus/plane ticket
- Find my mp3 player in my mess and put some good music on it (I'm currently using my mobile phone as a mp3 player) <-- Nowhere to be found ...
- Do my Class planning for next semester ... (though I think I'm gonna do this next saturday 'cause I'll never have time)
- Go pick up my boots

+
- Copy Passport and ID

And what the fuck did I think invinting my friends to a last farewell thing ... eating something I would have cook. I know I won't see them before a year maybe ...
But I will clearly have no time ...
I'm so deeply fucked up right now ... 

What do I care La Marseillaise is less glamourous than the Star-Spangled Banner by Aretha Franklin ? scandaloussteph ’s post made me wonder why I felt the need to watch the inauguration. Despite the fact that I’ve an obsession with Northern America, I think I’m also quite eager to draw a comparison between the French tradition and the American one.
And I must say, the part of God in this ceremony amazed me ... Our secularism is one of the thing I like the most about being French. I know it’s considered as really strong and sometimes violent. But IMO this is one of the most important part of the Country.

To continue with the whole  politic-actuality thing ... I wanted to repeat something, I hope nobody was offended by my post about Gaza. (Thinking back I realise I have really no skills to analyse the conflict.) But what’s done is done...


Now as Obama is delivering his speech, I’ll talk about the Entropa installation. I went to European Council yesterday, in order to have a better look at it. Seeing it was really important to give me an opinion about it ...
Though, I have to say first, entering these buildings is a challenge for the hallway, but when you’re in the hallway you can go wherever you want without badge if you can be discrete which isn’t reassuring for the sake of our Politicians. But another time I’ve to say ... Why do I care ?

So I watch this art installation, and more than the fact that, I found this really really ugly, I had a feeling of separation while watching it.
Let me explain, it’s too gliterry for my tastes, too “kitch”. Moreover, I think it’s difficult to watch it as a whole, you tend to want to analyse all the details, separating the country. And for me, that’s a shame ... If we’re not able to fell united inside the buildings of the EU, where can we ?
(I mean I feel really linked to my friends in Erasmus when we’re drinking together. But I don’t think EU has anything to do with it).


Considering my trip to Russia ...

-  Did my laundry today. (Have a chat with a lady while I was waiting for the wash machines to finish). She made quite a few racist reflections and that’s disturbed me a lot ...
- Bought : Gloves, Hat, Scarf, Tights ... (I cannot believe I mannage to be girl for 15 minutes)
- Bought Trash Magasines to feed my friend’s addiction to this junk press ;)
- Bought one book for the airplane time. Didn’t know what to pick. I chose to indulge my feminist side : A room of one’s own and Three Guineas
- My boots might be fixed before I leave ...

Still to do :

- Download the TV-shows my friend wants me to bring (I just have to DL the new Ugly Betty)
- Buy moisture, ibuprophen (there was nothing lefts in shops)
- Beginning Painless subtitles.


Have a good day everyone.



EDIT : Almost forgot : If you haven't seen Flourish I strongly advise you to do it ...
This is one the best movies I've seen in a long long time.

I was just trapped in the rain 15 minutes ago, the biggest I've ever been under ... But I was not pissed off or anything I was just feeling good. I was listenning to Susan Enan "Bring on the Wonder" which is normally a sad/nostalgic song but I discovered a brand new prespective to this song ... like I was feeling so well I can't even figure out why. And I was singing out loud. People were looking at me weirdly (though believe my voice is not that bad ... 

Anyway I completely wet but I'm also feeling fulfilled which is cool. Tonight I'll see House. I have only one more exam before Russia ... 

Oh and I went to see the Czech Art thing. I'll post my pics later on (and my feelings). Let's just say I was not fascinated by this stuff. 

Oh and something random. I think I'll try to get a Fullbright for a summer institute in the US. It's an all-expanse covered thing. It's a really long shot. There're only 8 spots available for the whole country. And I'm not a outstanding student (that's what they're looking for). But you've got to take oppurtinities. If I'm not taken : big deal, it won't be tragic ...

Anyway, I had many ideas when I came back from my walk but everything seems to be gone in the Rain ... 
Too bad ...