May 31, Day 9

I still hate this keyboard. what's messing me up the most is the 'a' being at the top left, the 'm' being in the middle row all the way on the right, and the 'w' being all the way on the bottom left row. Oh and holding shift for a period is getting really old.

I slept really well with ,y new roommate Dani. We headed out early to go to some town where the Niepce Museum is. Long story short: Niepce was the inventor of Photography, so I was pretty stoked to go to the museum. I got to see many of his original heliographs, and I got to see Alfred Steigliz's Steerage, which sparked the movement of Straight Photography, the process of finding abstractions in everyday objects, which is something i've explored myself. I had someone take a photo of me by it ^_^ We then went to the Niepce house where I stood in the room and looked out the window of where the first ever photograph, View From A Window At Gras, was taken. If you dont think that's neat you can just stop reading this blog or something. I also stood in Niepce's workroom, and the attic darkroom that he and Daguerre once shared and worked with one another in. What a fabulous day.

At a train stop on our way to Paris, I learned that 'cornichon', pronounced corn-i-sho, means pickle. The lady I ordered my sandwhich from taught me. How pleasant. We got to Paris and settled in our Holiday in Hotel nestled nicely in the cityscape next to a sex shop. It's kind of funny. I had a fabulous dinner at a little cafe a few blocks down: a salad with a horseradish-like dressing, french ham/bacon, tomatoes, and toast with warm goat cheese. Ive mearned that if you dont like goat cheese, you should come to france (Lowen Winkler) hahah. its everywhere and in everything.

Clearly, we have no free internet at this hotel, which is more normal for france. There are two computers downstairs, one of which im on, the only catch is someone switched up the keys on the keyboard so they can laugh at the stupid americans who try to catch up on their blogs.......

I did laundry in the hotel sink. that was fun. My grass stained jeans turned the water completely yellow. Hah.