The story of our family of five six that has been uprooted from a city on the plains of Canada and find ourselves in a village in the French Alpes.

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

well, that was weird

I was extra tired this afternoon (having left the house at 6:44) - so by the time I was leaving the business school - I was dragging a bit.  I also had an incredible pounding headache- which I had thought may be attributed to caffiene (I have pretty much stopped drinking coffee altogether {thank you Transcend Coffee for elevating my tastes to a level that I cannot find here} but had had a shot or two the previous two days).  I was debating whether or not to get a coffee - just to wake me up - and for my head, but decided against it. 


So I continue my solitary walk towards the tram stop.


Suddenly right in front of me a giant Monster Truck drives up over the curve and parks on the side walk.  As in a giant (OK giant for here - but like what people use for commuting in Alberta) American pick up - all jacked up -and custom painted lime green for ‘MONSTER ENERGY DRINK”  A guy and a girl jump out - and the techno-rock music spills out to the street.  He jumps up into the back - flips up a door - and reaches in to a giant ice-chest and starts handing out cans of the Caffiene-Turarin-Ginsigng-Panda-Blood-nicotine-whatever-else-laden stuff to whoever walks past.   This all happens directly between the entrance to the school and the tram stop. So basically without changing a step - I reach out and take his half-litre offering, and keep walking.


It was suddenly as if Robert Munsch was writing the story of my day. As if I was a bit actor in a screenplay written by Dr Seuss.  Like my day was a theactrical rendition of a Salvador Dali sketch.


then I went home. (and my headache went away)


huh.

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