Archive | May 8, 2012

Please Don't Come Back

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Oh not you.  I love all you little clickers.

No, it's certain styles whose return I fear.

This weekend, I was rummaging through a drawer and found this:

I don't remember the exact circumstances for this workplace photo, but I know it was taken about 1977 - when I was twenty-six.

I have infallible, exquisite taste. But I am thinking now that my impeccable sense of style must have developed sometime after 1977.

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Too cute!

France Shifts Left – Hollande Elected President of France

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Last night the French voted François Hollande of the Socialist Party into power. Incumbent candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will finish up his last few weeks in office before the shift takes place sometime, we imagine, this summer.

Unlike in the States, a specified timeline for the evacuation of one President and the installation of another is not prescribed. The incoming President, from what I gather, can decide when s/he wants make the transition.

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This post is a prime example of why I love Becoming Madame. Insightful, interesting and intelligent post.