I promised to update this every other week and I'm failing badly.
Thank you sooo much to those who bought my shit and reposted the sale while I was at Madd's! Everything's sold now except the shorter ballet heels, the Ragu piece and the cop outfit no thanks to some deadbeats. With it I was able to pay for shipping some stuff here from home.

Got back to Paris almost 2 weeks ago, wish I could have gotten more rest when I was Stateside, but being able to see everyone before I left again was worth it.
Life's whizzing by so fast, and if it weren't for pictures, I wouldn't remember half of it.
Pics are from the last 3 weeks
Nick Cave & Pixies show, Miles Davis exhibit, Austin, random French crap and a last look at my hair before I go and get it cut this weekend.

Renault Museum

Pixies show

( More pics & Necronomicon under the cut... )

Sorry to keep you waiting for it so long. I'm finally selling some more stuff!
Corsets, Costumes, Kimono, Tux, Victorian stuff, Fetish shoes
and I'm shipping as soon as you order cuz Halloween is NOOOW!
Most of ya'll know how much this stuff would origninally cost and these prices are ridiculously low for speedy sale.





Most of this is plus-size stuff, if it doesn't apply to you feel free to ogle over it and spread word of the sale to your friends! Plz Plz!!!
( Lots of Pictures, pieces and details under the cut )

Well, PythonCamp was last weekend. Tinkered with Tux Droid, now it's at home.
Got a lot of work done there, find a great hideaway on the front lawn and claimed it before anyone else.
Everyone in my company is awesome, social, well-adjusted but quirky, and witty in that way that becomes insanely attractive once you hit 25.

Anyway... Amina & Tarek (Tarek's a coworker) hosted camp for 16 of us in their villa near Dijon. It was utterly insane. And beautiful. Very "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane". I didn't stay the full 5 days because my allergies were still flaring. As usual, I really need more girls in my life.
The villa was completed in 1840-something, the original family that owned used it as a summer house and stopped coming around the 1970's. It was put on the market two years ago and A&T bought it a few months ago and moved in last month. There were SO many treasures everywhere. Gah! Amina's sort of an electrical wiz and rewired the whole house (14 rooms!) herself. We all brought so much stuff I was sure something would have blown, but she was on top of that shit.

I took all the pics either with my iPhone or with the old Cannon. Cannon really only zooms, doens't do any tricks, so it was a great exercise in shot framing and hanging from rafters (literally) to get some light on some too-dark stuff. I don't photoshop or colortouch pics, so some stuff might look a little color-drained. Deal.





More creeptasticness here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretblue/sets/72157622116924221/

Click, my pretties, CLICK! If I reach 8,000 hits my man will eat dust and renew my Flickr subscription (which is, incidentally, not good for anything except for seeing how many hits you got).

It's Friday night here. We were going to go out but N's pee-paw called to get some cold medicine delivered. I am stuck at home, listening to other people party in alien languages. Hopefully the guy upstairs will bring home his weekly dose of girl-thing. He is cunning at bagging them and he leaves his windows open so we can all hear what strange mating calls his birds make. And I do mean strange.

Been out of the country for the last two RevCo comebacks :(
Go see 'em for me and wave a nostalgic hello to my longlost adolescent nihilism:

Sept. 10 El Paso, TX @ Club 101 (with Jourgensen)
Sept. 12 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
Sept. 13 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
Sept. 14 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
Sept. 15 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Vegas
Sept. 17 Coeur D'Alene, ID @ The Grail
Sept. 18 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
Sept. 19 Vancouver, BC @ The Rickshaw Theatre
Sept. 20 Portland, OR @ Dante's
Sept. 23 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Sept. 25 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
Sept. 26 Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
Sept. 27 Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues (with Jourgensen)
Oct. 1 San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Oct. 2 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
Oct. 3 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
Oct. 4 St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird
Oct. 6 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues (with Jourgensen)
Oct. 7 Detroit, MI @ Blondies
Oct. 8 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Concert Club
Oct. 9 St. Thomas, ON @ Brunswick Tavern (TBC)
Oct. 10 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
Oct. 11 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounes Electriques (TBC)
Oct. 12 Toronto, ON @ Reverb (TBC)
Oct. 14 Pitstburgh, PA @ Rex Theater
Oct. 16 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Oct. 17 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza (with Jourgensen)
Oct. 18 Baltimore, MD @ Ram's Head Live
Oct. 20 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
Oct. 21 Orlando, FL @ Club Firestone
Oct. 22 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
Oct. 23 St. Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre
Oct. 24 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
Oct. 25 New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
Oct. 30 Austin, TX @ Emo's

We're at Amina & Tarek's place at the moment helping them get ready for the biggest hackfest Dijon has ever seen. As usual, the girls are cleaning and the guys are deciding which distro to load on their fucking lappies this week. We all fucking code, but I guess if you have a cock it makes you immune to cleaning.
/rant
This place is beautiful, decrepit and creepy. Reminds me of that French movie "Satan" which apparently noone in france has fucking seen. Bobbie would know that shit. French redneck dude fucks his sister and makes a deal with the devil and kills some clubkids? Was awesome.
/drinking

MY WORK VISA GOT APPROVED TODAY!!!

( and now you shall feel as happy as i ... )

There goes Al Sharpton with his "me me me me me me" shit again.
stfu.

I'm crying hard now.
He was my very first crush :(

Threw some Seattle pics up from our whopping two day trip there:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretblue/sets/72157618474423707/


Experience Music Project & Scifi museum, Needle, Amazon HQ (they were ridiculously strict about not having cameras inside and at the meeting, wtf. for a bunch of "laid back" people they sure are uptight), The Shins show, and we keep staying at cool hotels lately.
They're all iphone photos so don't get too excited now.

Oh, and thanks to those that ran call-backup duty during project Victor Needs A Date Quickly. He got laid and has some girl that's going to come visit him in San Fran. lol.
Memorial Day weekend was fuuuun.
Nico's extending his stay an extra month. All those on pregnancy-scare-hotline duty can start manning the phones. You know how psychotic I get when regular access to the vajayjay has been granted.

okay back to work.

Old Spock vs New Spock

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Okay, most of the Paris pics from last month's trip are up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretblue/sets/72157617845351801/

The Seattle trip was fruitful and fun, though the rain wreaked havoc on my hair. Suppose I should eventually upload those pics as well when I have time.

We did the group thing at this slick ass movie theater we've become addicted to here and saw Trek. So good and campy! But we're seeing it in a "normal" theater next weekend because I think the cheesecake and beer may have had me biased during viewing.

The boy bought me a MacBook and though I'm grateful and I love it I'm scared I'll abuse it like I have the other three lappies before it. haha.
Any and all Mac tips appreciated. Our family's first computer was an Apple II E, but shit has seriously been overhauled since then. I find myself more inside the terminal because it's FreeBSDbased (who knew?) and I had gotten into OpenBSD a bit as I was leaving Houston then became obsessed in Portland. Interface-wise, I'm like... WTF?!
But damn everything is so pretty and runs like a dream. Facial recognition is awesome, man.

Made the boss cry over strawberry margaritas as he actually pleaded and tried to deal with me not to leave. It was cool! Okay, so I started crying too. I dunno, I'm gonna miss this bunch, they're all smart (okay, except one). I like calling everything a "Transition to Power" now. I've been giving mini seminars on board design and layout and getting some folks up to speed on my own obsessive compulsive brand of QA testing. It's like breaking up with a guy you love, because you're going to join the Peace Corps or something... confusion and hurt on their end for a bit as they think it's something they did wrong, then a rush to make sure everything is taken care of and he has everything he needs to go on without you.

Going to Austin again sometime around the end of June to see Maddy and Christin, get into trouble, shop and trying to burn off some accumulated airline miles until my work visa gets approved.

Life is still weird and good around here.
Yours the same?