Shopping with Monopoly money
May. 26th, 2007 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pphaneufToday, we went out shopping a bit, to spend some of my truck wages (pretty popular in France, where apparently, as long as it doesn't say "euro", it hardly is taxable) before we leave. Got myself the new Arcade Fire album, a one of those fast CompactFlash, a shirt and a chocolate recipe book.
Not covered by my truck wages is a titanium watch from a collection I saw during our visit in February 2006 (where I almost bought one!). I have a strange relationship with watches, as I don't like timekeeping very much (I'd like to keep it simple, for example), but due to my snob, yuppie side (also expressed in my taste for expensive sunglasses, argh), I like nicely designed watches, probably as the only kind of jewelry I seem to tolerate on myself. Since I'm a snobbish bastard, I never found a watch that I'd like to wear, and I'd certainly not get a "normal utilitarian watch". In fact, I think I haven't owned a watch since, well, something like 1994 or 1995! So, after twelve years or so, I finally found something classy, made out of one of my favourite materials, and for a reaonable price, a nice souvenir.
To compensate for the classiness of that watch, I had some Kraft Dinner for, well, dinner. At about that time, the Toulouse Football Club beat the team from Bordeaux, thus qualifying them for the Champions League next year.
This, of course, leads to a bunch of people having apparently decided to blow up parts of Toulouse. Ah, the French...
Not covered by my truck wages is a titanium watch from a collection I saw during our visit in February 2006 (where I almost bought one!). I have a strange relationship with watches, as I don't like timekeeping very much (I'd like to keep it simple, for example), but due to my snob, yuppie side (also expressed in my taste for expensive sunglasses, argh), I like nicely designed watches, probably as the only kind of jewelry I seem to tolerate on myself. Since I'm a snobbish bastard, I never found a watch that I'd like to wear, and I'd certainly not get a "normal utilitarian watch". In fact, I think I haven't owned a watch since, well, something like 1994 or 1995! So, after twelve years or so, I finally found something classy, made out of one of my favourite materials, and for a reaonable price, a nice souvenir.
To compensate for the classiness of that watch, I had some Kraft Dinner for, well, dinner. At about that time, the Toulouse Football Club beat the team from Bordeaux, thus qualifying them for the Champions League next year.
This, of course, leads to a bunch of people having apparently decided to blow up parts of Toulouse. Ah, the French...
