What else?

I'm going to let you Americans in on a big French secret and it's not about couscous. George Clooney did these commercials for Nespresso (a brand of espresso, idiot) and the tagline is "What else?". They are in English, subtitled in French, and are well popular. I think they think the commericals are so funny because they know him as Dr Ross and they see ER as some kind of serious drama or something. And in the commericals he's mugging and playing the idiot, always thinking the beautiful French women are talking about him when in fact they are enjoying Nespresso. What else? I wish you could hear me say it or better yet, George Clooney. He looks hot in them and Nespresso is good.

I am staying in this little village I still don't know the name of an extra night. Apparently there was a fire in Marseille yesterday and the city stinks and there are ashes everywhere. Marseille has also been described to me as a 'dustbin'. I can't wait! After a week in the smelly dustbin, I fly to Malaga, spend a night there, and then take a bus to Cadiz and start my job at the health store bottling kombucha which has always been a dream of mine. I'll get my own bicycle so I won't feel completely exploited. It will be fun to have a job again. I'll have office type things to complain about like oh this damn fermented tea ran out of paper again.

The girls on the streets are wearing these hideous jumpers that I just can't get into. I think it's the biggest fashion mistake since the Galliano gown of '06.

I'm going to try to play SCRABBLE in French tonight, even though the game was made for the English language. The z will be too easy to use and it will frustrate me but, like the brave men who fought on Bastille Day, I must marchons, marchons. Qu'un sang impur. Aux armes les citoyens!

I hear Obama is trying to reform healthcare, that's good. The teenage girl's room I'm staying in has a giant Obama calendar on the wall. I fall asleep to it every night with sweet dreams of free doctor visits and a healthy uterus.

Karine made ratatouille some night, I don't know, I can't keep track of what day it is here. I updated my iPhone and now it's in French and military time and ugh life can be exhausting; Anyway the ratatouille was really good. I provided calissons for dessert. Calissons are a local specialty. The paste is made from mango and almond with white icing on top and a wafer bottom. I also brought Roquefort which is made in one and only one cave in France. A long time ago there was this shepherd and he got hungry as shepherds are wont to do. He had some bread and some cheese and he left it together in this cave for a few days and when he came back VOILA he had invented Roquefort! Thank you cold and hungry shepherd.

I would love to speak English so any one of you jerks, feel free to call me anytime but not 2 AM.