Happy graduate!!!!

Last post I was feeling a bit down.

Buuuuut, today I received a letter from the bachelor’s exam commission, who told me that I have gratuated!!!!!

(screams and waves hands) Weeeeeeeyhoooyoooo!

Amazing, yours truely is a happy gratuate. I gratuated the 14th of July, the independance day in France (quartorze Juillet), so I declare 14 Juli 2008 my own independance day.

Ok ok, it is not a master degree yet, but I am really happy to have finalized this bachelor’s degree.

I can’t get no….

Satisfaction….. Sorry to quote one of my childhood sing-a-song band ‘The Rolling Stones’, but I have been feeling quite unhappy lately. I am unhappy with my relationship, with my house, with my body, with my (lack of) friends.

I do not want to become an old spinster, and I do care about my boyfriend…but domestic life is just too boring….I want to travel, I want to live, I just want to be me…

Smoking ban

The last couple of days was full of stories about people complaining about the non-smoking rules in public bars. (forbidden since the 1st of July)

Personally, I do not mind. I do not smoke, and do not go to bars (anymore). My boyfriend smokes, but does not go to bars (because he does not drink alcohol).

So, my opionion goes up in smoke!!!

Tour de…???

Last year I was completely fan of the Tour the France. I watched a lot of the cycling on TV (when it was aired) and loved the ups and downs of the cyclist…untill, the Rasmussen-thing.

So Contador won, and the Tour was over.

(Gosh, he has some big ears…)

Will I watch the Tour that intensively this year…nahh, I don’t think so. But still, I wonder if there will be new favourites and new talent this year….

Are you a sportsfan…if so, only soccer…or other sports as well?

A different kind of summer love: ‘My Summer of Love’

Sometimes I come across a film that knows how to capture the spirit of summer. Most of the time, these films are not your standard Hollywood productions: for example, I really liked ‘La Piscine’.

‘My Summer of Love’ is one of these films, that captures British summer that is mixed with boredom, exitement, friendship, infatuation and difference.

First of all, it is not your standard summer love story, as the two protagonist are both young girls in their teens.  However, it is neither your standard lesbian/bisexual movie: the unlikely friendship between the girls of lower and upper classes just flows into a extention of sexual exploration.

I like how Mona portrays the roughness of the ‘lower-class’ environment. She is bold, sometimes a bit masculine, but very caring. Tamsin is the partly neglected upper-class ‘princess’, who loves to dive into a summer of escapism with Mona.

I will not give any spoilers, but it certainly captures the mood of a summer love…even if the protagonists are not your usual type of lovers….