Nathan and Juliette's blog

10pm Tuesday May 8. Paris
sitting in an internet cafe next to nathan who has been here since sunday morning. the time has flown since his arrival and internet access has been sparse so the blog updates have been too few...

to recap...

Thursday, May 3: i worked on cleaning out more of my apt. took a lunch break near Bastille around 1pm with Ol and Virginie at a cafe called "La Pause Cafe". so nice to see Virginie's smiling face and catch up old times. She is happily living with a man named Lionel in an apt he bought and completely redid near Republique. We talk about our love lives and how both she and i have both left behind our artistic careers in favor of financially fullfiling job offers. i return to the apt with olivier and we do some more cleaning. things are seeming bleak at this point with the amount of junk i had stored in there (and now must be rid of) slightly overwhelming me. ol leaves to go to work around 4:30pm and arrives delphes with chocolate eclairs in time for tea together. we talk about our love lives (a running theme in the catch up conversations with my close friends) and where we are in our life ambitions. she discloses that she and moka are ready to start making babies!!!. i tell her how hard it is for me to be going through the stuff in my apt and finally, officially, leaving that part of my life behind. she leaves around 7pm and i get ready to join up with marie amelie, my jewelry designer friend who people always take for my older sister. marie and i meet up at the metro bonne nouvelle near my apt and we head to St Paul where she takes me to the sister restaurant of the restaurant she formally worked at before now working for Hermes. (Incidentally and coincidentally, the restaurant i had dined at the night before with vincent and olivier called Cafe Vivienne!) We have a lovely (at late) evening catching up (again our love lives and our life ambitions). she is truly a darling person who i hope will have much success with the line of jewelry she has launched over the last year and is hoping to find shops to sell it in! i crawl home quite late to olivier's apt and sneak into bed with him to catch a few hours sleep bfore another big day...