Ten Little Chances to be Free

Felt generally ick yesterday, so I took some ibuprofen. About six hours later--in other words, long enough for it to wear off--I got up to go to the bathroom and got hit with chills and a massive shaking fit. It turned out to be a 101.6 fever that the ibuprofen had barely been holding off. Ugh, I feel like such utter crap right now. Not as crappy as last night, but... yeah. I don't get sick very often--really sick as opposed to "slight sore throat and general ick"--so when I do it scares the living shit out of me.

In slightly less whiny news, I have my photos in order--yay! Dumping all 130+ on you at once would be slightly cruel, so have some French Revolution-related photospam: the Conciergie and the Monument to the Girondins in Bordeaux.

( Follow the cut for naked statues and pretty revolutionaries! )

Teasers:



( 37 under the cut, not dialup friendly in the slightest )

Ever since $500 of my spending money got soaked and rendered un-exchangeable in a regrettable conditioner explosion in my suitcase, I have been veeery tightfisted with my money. I want to have some left over for Paris, see, so I've been even more of a spendthrift than I usually am at home. However, today I made the happy discovery that I have 100€ left for my last five days in Bordeaux--which means I finally get to do some serious eating out, whee! So tonight involved a wine bar and an apathetic Vietnamese dinner that was totally redeemed when I discovered that the place sold ginger candy. I heart ginger candy even if it makes my mouth explode. And tomorrow I am so totally going to have magret de canard, because it's apparently a regional specialty and I would feel bad if I didn't try it. (I am rather lucky in the regional-specialty department; canelés, another Bordeaux trademark, are made with milk, but most magret de canard recipes aren't and I would be mighty suspicious if any dairy products ended up in my wine.)

I also need to buy a new purse. Mine is falling apart, woe.

Photo excursions are going well enough. Saint-André is posted, I have a bunch of pictures of the Monument to the Girondins on my computer, and I'll probably go photograph the Jardin Public in the next couple days. I'm holding off on the Cimetière de la Chartreuse because my camera died right before I got to the tomb that has a GIANT STATUE OF THE GRIM REAPER on it. And there is no way I'm doing a photo post of the cemetery until I go back and get pictures of that.

It's kind of weird that I'm already preparing for Paris. Saturday...! (Okay, Sunday. Saturday is Montreuil-sur-Mer. *g*)

Since I am way too lazy to copy all the links into this post, I stuck 'em in a gallery. Handy. Here you go, and mind that there are two pages:

Cathédrale St-André

Also, some video clips of the Bastille Day fireworks, in chunks ranging from 5 to 25 seconds long 'cause my camera was designed to take pictures, not videos.

http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks1.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks2.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks3.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks4.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks5.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks6.avi
http://marianne.eta-carinae.net/fireworks7.avi

And pictures:
Hôtel de Ville all decked out the evening of the 14th.
I am easily amused.
Sunset behind the Place de la Bourse, around 9:30 or 10:00.