Monday wasn't anything special except that it was the last day of June. I had class as usual, was busy sweating in the park but I did finish the 2nd Circle of Magic book, it was pretty great. Made my summer reading list on my Dreamwidth bucketlist finally. Been talking to new and old friends a lot recently, seriously brightens my day.
On Tuesday we had the hottest day yet which was 39/40 most of the day. So literal hell. I stayed home because I didn't want to get stuck somewhere when the train would inevitably be cancelled or postponed. It's because the metal of the rail tracks expands, interesting, huh? I posted one Artfight attack but I won't be doing much in the first two weeks because I'm rushing to finish my zine. Goddamit!
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| Bastardo. |
Wednesday was so cool, it dropped to like 22 degrees which was awesome. I don't know what that is in American but trust me, it was good. I didn't have class so I finally finished the 2000s fanlisting and put it up on my site.
On Thursday I kept waking up because my cat, Yoshi, was being super sweet and cuddling but also kneading me with his little claws and it kind of hurt. During class we said goodbye to Agira, Mina, and Carlos, they finished their courses and went early to go get their kids. Because of this huge exodus of students our teacher let us know that classes would end early as there would only be 3 students left (Jimena, Hamza, and me) and that she can't teach classes that are less than 4 people. Sadly we'll have our last week next week and we may restart in September if there's more people.
After school I bought some knick-knacks from the discount store. I can get lost there for a long time which is bad, I don't need more stuff! Unless...no!
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| Looks like the train is flying. |
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| They're frolicking. |
On Friday I went to the dentist, she replaced the bad filling with a new one and it felt pretty good. I no longer have a gross little gap where food gets stored for no reason. Yuck. I finished Rumble Fish in like a day and a half of reading, which is not that impressive because it's such a short book but it's impressive to me.
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| Spotted during class. |
I checked whether our town would have 28 Years Later screenings in VOSTF (version originale sous-titres francais) but they would only have it dubbed. The closest place which would screen it in English is Bordeaux and my brother really wants to see it in the cinemas. I decided we'd go on Saturday.
At home I went down a rabbit hole of old The Faculty fansites, fanlistings, and fanfic sites. So cool. I added some links to my own fanlisting. I love browsing ancient fan efforts, fan culture can be so fun when you navigate away from the infighting. I also watched 30 Days of Night because I'm having a bit of Josh Hartnett appreciation month. It was pretty great.
On Saturday I bought tickets in the morning but we were a bit bummed because it was +16 and so my sister couldn't go. I don't know why I didn't think it would obviously be +16, there is so much violence. Sadly there is no way in the world anyone would ever believe she's 16 or older so we left her at home but she wasn't too upset because she'd spend the day with our mum. We got tickets for 2PM and went on the 11AM train. We got there in about an hour and went straight to the Gambetta cinema to roam around, maybe get snacks. We dropped by the H&M because it's sales time and my brother really wanted to get white t-shirts because it's way too hot to wear dark clothes now. He got the most obnoxiously oversized one but he actually looked well-dressed for once. He was wearing cargo pants I got for him too so he's basically hopeless if I don't style him.
I am much better about not buying from fast fashion brands there days. There were some cute things on sale I may have bought in the past but these days I obey a strict itinerary. If I can't thrift it, only then will I buy it new and from these mass market sellers. We dropped by a supermarket and got some onigiri that were discounted and some sodas.We then had to run back to the cinema full speed because the movie was in 10. We made it past the ticket guy easy, I was worried he'd want to check our bags. My brother goes LITERALLY everywhere with his ridiculously sized backpack. He carries his sketchbook, a first aid kit, and a windbreaker but it feels like I'm hanging out with a school shooter...
Lots of ads! And none were good, seriously, this may be the only good movie of the summer of 2025. Plus they had ads for not movies which I hate. Anyway, I won't spoil anything here but I will have a review on my finnybox blog. We are big Danny Boyle fans here, I love Sunshine the most and my brother does too but he also really likes 28 Days Later so we were just happy to see something exciting for once. Weaker in the second half, I won't lie. It's another thing off the bucketlist too.
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| Making that camrip in the year 2025. |
We went to the Chinese store and picked up snacks for my sister. Even though we just had the onigiri and ice tea (my beloved) my brother was still hungry so we went to get pancakes.
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| My childhood drink. |
We got the basic honey and butter from My Fluffy Bordeaux, it was kinda pricey at 8 euro or such but they were so good. I bought myself a swimsuit, biking shorts, and some jorts. Didn't find anything cute at Flying Tiger.
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| He did not eat them cutely at all. |
We had to take the latest train out just because there wasn't any earlier ones. So we took our time and went to the FNAC to play around on the iPads. I also got Pearl Jam's Ten on sale. Sweet.
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| Artiste. |
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| Actual sponge texture, but so good... |
Did I tell you that my first welfare payment came in? Yes, I'm officially leeching off the government! If you've already got your panties in a conservative twist, relax, it's not much and I'm spending it on groceries and an occasional good time like taking my brother to the movies. Plus I was given literally nothing while I was in bureaucratic limbo and couldn't work. Why am I even justifying this? Immigrant guilt, I guess.
Anyway, we got home late and my feet were in so much pain! I have really bad sneakers that I need to replace ASAP.
Sunday rocked too. We had a brocante in town, it wasn't huge and a bunch of people packed up and left when the rain started but I got so many cute finds. Everything under 10 euro all together. I post all my shopping shenanigans to my finnymemo blog if you're curious. My mum and a family friend were also doing some renovation at our local Thai place. I wasn't even there but the owner is so nice she invited us all to a free lunch.
This week I listened to Jack's Mannequin's The Glass Passenger in it's entirety, I listened to a bunch of tracks religiously as a teen. Good to be back. My fave was probably What Gets You Off. I did not know what that phrase meant as a kid, kinda funny now. Didn't know this was a Something Corporate related project. Me and Alice were just discussing that emo is so 'inbred' when it comes to band members, 20 emo bands are just other emo bands in a trench coat. I don't mind it though.
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