I love and despise Borders. You, know the bookstore. It is there that I explore and find interesting reads, but the lack of time and refusing to buy anything not on sale hinders me from going to the purchase counter. This is why Amazon.com is my friend; I put books on a wish list and buy when I am free at half the price. Nevertheless, I am home and my family loves to read and we tend to go to Borders often.
Recently, I have purposefully veered away from the Travel section in the magazine area of the store. You see if I read travel magazines, I become upset that I'm not there or that I might not ever go there. Be it as it may, I walked over to Travel section and picked up Living France, a magazine devoted to Brits who wish to buy a home in France, and Paris Vogue to see what "will" be en vogue.
I attempted to read the French in Paris Vogue, I probably understood about 50%. Since, I was not receiving warm, fuzzy, feelings, about my french skills, it was time to read Living in France. The majority of the homes and places featured were not even close to Paris. There was a whole section on "How to take the most of your Cycling Trip in Burgundy." It dawned on me that I would love to take a cycling trip one day in Europe. I hear all of Dr. Turnbull's, my French professor, stories-- of course he is fluent and continually takes 10-40 mile cycling treks. However, I could do it, if I pushed myself.
Alas, it was time to go and I had to return the magazines to their rightly homes. I have to admit that I felt pretty good about passing by people with such high-class magazines in my arms. A woman stopped me and asked me for my perfume. (Men, you may not understand this, but women love to smell classy and find nothing wrong with finding a discovery from a complete stranger.) I replied, "Burberry Brit," and walked along my way thinking even though I'm not in France or have Chanel's fall collection, I feel pretty confident about myself in this moment. You see there are two things that will probably always put you in a pleasant mood: Compliments and Day Dreaming.
This is probably my favorite post from you!! I loved everything about it and I felt like I was reading something you would have written in feature writing! Anyway, you are definitely my "classy" friend...there is no doubt about that!! :) <3
ReplyDeleteI love this. :) I went to a bookstore recently too and they had like 7 magazines with Paris or France featured on the cover. Torture more than anything haha.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Elise- you should totally look into doing feature writing, cuz it's great!
Let's chat in french soon, because I have forgot so much...