A call to arms (and legs)

"all rise!" said the sun
"i prepared pink clouds for you --
to cheer you all up"

Work and a great phone conversation that will lead me on a path of success, I hope, in my endeavours to attract new clients. I could never have afforded it if France didn't offer a universal training fund. I have a few thousand euros stacked in that account, so I'll be able to pay for a six-month tutoring programme. Of course there are a few bureaucratic hurdles, but hey! I'll overcome this, I hope!

In the evening, a very pleasant session of reading aloud (I did the reading, Julie listened) the latest Houellebecq novel, Serotonin. We are in turn touched, outraged and laughing out loud.