Orange Orange (Jue's Blog)

She crossed her legs and gave me the look one gives when trying to seem very reasonable, complete with pursed lips, innocently raised eyebrows, and a slight shrug of the shoulders. “Of course, I don’t want to be the new one making up all the rules, you know? But I definitely don’t want to be [...]

The only thing more boring than writing a blow-by-blow account of a weekend trip is reading one, so for everyone’s sake, I think it suffices to simply state that I went to Lucerne on Saturday. For the curious, highlights of my stay include: hiking (i.e. strolling) at the top of an Alpine peak on a [...]

“Ambianceur,” said Martial, pointing at the bags under my eyes and chuckling slightly.
I looked up from my reading, an engrossing treatise on the minutiae involved in dissecting and preserving rat brains. “Pas du tout,” I said, “not at all.”
The word “ambianceur” was first explained to me at last Friday’s apéro, or afternoon cocktail. This is [...]