As it happens, the old template had to go. The div tags used to look decent but owing to the evolution of perspective, they don't look too good no more. So they had to go. Apologies to Jiaming who worked on that design around 5 years ago - I was mangling it beyond recognition anyway.
So, yes, welcome back. What's new, some ask. Lots, I'd say. Second year in London now, new address, "new" bed double the size of the old one, "new" desk, 2/3 the size of the previous. Well basically a decently furnished room, far from the decadence characterizing the Ritz, but given how the cost of living here is lower than what it would've been if I'd spent another year in Commonwealth Hall, I'd say it's a good deal.
And yes, the society - reestablished, rebuilt, refurbished, reconstructed. New committee - really proud of the entire team, I must add. Considering the start point (for convenience, we'll just call that point "nothing"), and where we are now (would've called it "something" but it'd be a horrible understatement of what the team has achieved), it's some damned good work done in the last four weeks. It's been four weeks already?
Thought on the side - seriously doubt anyone reads this page. But if anyone does, then a huge thank you goes out to the following people:
Teresa and Zoe, for work on LeMag; Krzysztof, for the wonderful photos; Niro, Francesca (for purposes of disambiguation, all mention of "Fran" refers to Fran Barrie unless explicitly specified), Yves-Lang and Arpinder, for running activities and keeping things going; Adam, for the workshops and for helping me get my cash back; Pierre (Beniguel. Another disambiguation statement, ditto the above, modify with some common sense) for the advice and help and Mathias, for the website that we can unfortunately no longer use.
And to everyone else who's made society activities outstandingly successful - you know very well I can't go listing everyone here, in which case we'll never get on with business.
This is a very unstructured post. And I don't intend to structure it.
Did I mention how murderous year 2 economics is? I think I didn't. I shall do so now. Very murderous.
Add that to running a society and the work it entails, and I doubt even a stupid insurance company would refuse to insure me against the risk of insanity.
So, coming up: French Kiss Tour (Claire Denamur, Zaza Fournier and Oshen) on the 3rd of november. If you're in London, and you want to watch three really talented musicians play for free, then drop by. Ciné Lumière, L'institut Français, South Kensington.
This coming week, Housse de Racket at Heaven (on the 29th) and the Lexington (on the 30th) - CATCH THEM. They're GOOD.
www.myspace.com/houssederacket
Also, if you were somehow at The Borderline (off Tottenham Court Road, into Manette St, then into Orange Yard), you'd have heard some very very amazing music by Kid Bombardos. So if you're from Bordeaux, be proud. Because they are too.
www.myspace.com/kidbombardos
If you're wondering where the sudden onslaught of gigs at horribly expensive places is coming from, given my reputation as being equally horribly particular about expenditure, fear not, for nothing has changed. A huge thank you goes out to BureauExport for the kind opportunities to watch these amazing performances at affordable cost! Of course, we do our part in return - LeMag covers these gigs, and I leave their tracks playing all day on Winamp. almost all day at least.
Right. Time to wash the glass before the tea stains it.
à la prochaine fois, from London.
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