It's all about flows after all

One week on in Paris and I just realised that I've been wrong this past month, thinking the place is strongest. I'm just not in Paris as a place but as a flow. Why ? Lifestyle. The workspace is international, intensive and non place-characteristic : I just happen to be physically accross from the Eifell Tower but could very well be working in Hong Kong, Jakarta or Kingston. The difference may be that there's no sea coming home from work. But then again, I've been coming home very late (he he he, working my head off) -so getting a cab home and hopping to bed is the same thing I'd to in these three other cities. My life is just a flow : made up of emails, intra-city movements, phone calls etc...

What appears like a logical point is then that flows and places interact depending on the lifestyle you lead. Where you are is what you choose. That's it.

Wow. working is hard !!

And chillin is easy !! That's it for now.

the pleasure of simple things

Sick and cold this morning, on my way to my first day at Booz Allen, I did manage to let go of a smile. The subway was running through the la Chapelle - Barbes overground rails with a view of Gare du Nord. Next to the Eurostar, Thalys and TGV, the Die Bahn night train from Berlin was pulling in. And that, was a great view and perhaps the best thing Paris can offer.

Back in Paris

So this is it. Took the train (the horrible Saturday eurostar -the ones with families and their kids screaming or drunken brits going to the rubgby match) and two and a half hours later was propelled to a different world. It's horrible but I just can't see one positive thing about Paris right now. Maybe simply because it's where I'm from and I don't get the thrill of feeling different than the others and the novelty of discovery.

London - Paris. So close yet so far. Yep !! The question is whether you can really split your time between two (or more) places. Don't you belong in one or the other ? If you think of it, I think it's a tough call.