Our lives are full of lists. Whether a list outlines groceries, Christmas wishes, names for your unborn child or potential boyfriend candidates, lists of every nature are both insightful and concise.
I recently found three lists in my room when I was cleaning papers off my desk. Here are their stories:
The first one was from one night when I went to a bar called Le Motel in Bastille, Paris with some friends. It was full of hipsters and people who claimed they had a friend of a friend who knew Pete Doherty. Basically people who were way cooler than me. Anyway, after several drinks, I became curious as to what the DJ's favorite songs of all time were. I went up to him with a pen and paper and asked him to write down his favorite songs, nervous that he would think I was a huge dork. I approached him with the cute American girl attitude, because obviously hipster thing wasn't working for me...I guess he liked me because he took the time to get a new pen when he saw the one I gave him didn't work. Here they are:
1. Live Forever by Oasis
2. Starman by Bowie
3. Eyes of Winova by All Stars
4. Poison the Chalice by Neimo
5. Floors and Ceilings by Miggles
6. Falling Down by Oasis
He signed his name, Nico Prat.
Yes, I've stalked him on Facebook more than once.
The next list was created during a conversation with Boubacar (see previous post). I asked him to write down some French cell phone lingo because I was curious to see how it compared to American cell phone lingo. It's the exact same principal: sounds of the regular word are shortened into single letters or numbers with the same sound. Here are some examples:
Ojod8=aujourd'hui=today
2van=devant=in front
Kan=quand=when
T pe=tu peux=can you
Svp=s'il vous plait=please
The third list is from the end of last summer, when I was sitting out on my patio with my friend. While sipping gin and tonics, we were thinking of names for our blogs that we were going to create. For the last several weeks of summer, I had nothing to do and desperately needed a hobby so I thought I would try my hand at blogging, thus Tea and Toast was born. If it wasn't called Tea and Toast, these were its other name options:
1. Boats and Britches
2. Patio Chat
3. Cool Kids Sit in the Back of the Bus
4. Burnt Toast
5. The Junk Drawer
Ellis I love the amounts of updating you've been doing recently.. and I just want to say that I'm glad you named your blog "Tea and Toast" instaed of "Cool Kids Sit in the Back of the Bus"... what were you thinking?
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