If you haven’t been reading Tony Lewis’ blog about this year’s (signficantly more successful) Woodchucks team, you may have missed this devastating piece of news:
Le Woodsmobile is no more.
Apparently the damage from the (never fully explained on HBWT) crash and subsequent battery on the morning of the PUC game did it in. It […]
“Goodbye’s too good a word, babe
So I’ll just say fare thee well…”
-Bob Dylan, Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Friday afternoon in Rouen. In fact, my last. Come Monday I’ll be just another first-year law student weasel, trying to settle in to my new apartment in Chicago and complaining about things like “Torts” and “Contracts.” Yikes.
France […]
After an all-too brief nap on Friday, we met up with Sylvain, who took us to see our new apartments. He prepped us by explaining that they were “very small,” and they lived up to his billing. Unfortunately, it appears that I left my camera at my old roommates’ house in San Francisco, making it […]
May be boring to many, but this Economist Article does a pretty good job of describing the risk aversion of French society.
(Note: This title works better if you remember that the French pronounce their capital city as “Pa-ree.”)
Matt dropped me off at the train station this morning after a night of review. I caught the 9:57 from Rouen to Paris, and then walked over to the Opera to catch the #8 train to the southwest […]
Scene: 8:00 AM this morning, teammate Aldo’s apartment, Bihorel, France. Our hero awakes to the realization that he is suddenly 27 years old, sleeping on the dining room floor. Enter, Conscious & Subconsci0us.
SC: Jesus F-ing Christ! What the hell is wrong with you! You’re 27 years old and sleeping on someone’s floor! You used […]
Haven’t really had time to write up our defeats against Rouen this weekend, but I will eventually. Things have been a little tense around here lately as the 2-room apartment that we saw on Monday proved to be a studio with a loft in 2-room apartment clothing, but we’re unwinding at a friend’s house before […]
It was kind of a tough weekend in HBWT land. We dropped two to PUC, two, ahem, spirited games. Frankly, I was shocked that those guys had yet to win a game. They played reasonably solid defense, and had a decent lineup, with power in the 1-6 spots. We should have won them both, and […]
The apartment search continues, as the place we found on Tuesday wanted an unreasonable four months deposit plus one month’s agency fee… It blows my mind how difficult it is to find a place to live in Rouen. I feel like back home, even in the SF housing boom, you just looked online, called up […]
No real update today, as Matt and I are busy trying to find an apartment in Rouen. You’d think we were looking for the holy grail, it’s so difficult. Apparently, the internet is not so popular for apartment hunting in France, as searching on Google for “Rouen Appartements” (in both French and English) pulls up […]
The past week has been pretty quiet. For the most part, I’ve been laying low, trying to ice my elbow whenever possible and stay on the schedule of anti-inflammatories prescribed by the doctor I saw, who, incidentally, is both a chiropractor and a physician.
The Australian and I have spent a few days working on […]
It’s been a fairly hectic week, which has prevented me from getting in to Rouen to post at the cyber café where Matthew and I are now regulars. I still haven’t signed up for internet access at home, because we’re hoping to move out of our place out in Neufchatel. The 40km drive each way […]
What with my recent relocation, there are a lot of new characters in the Have Bat, Will Travel story. There’s Matthew, the hard-throwing Australian who is returning for his second year with the Woodchucks despite speaking hardly a word of French. There’s Eric, the former club president who bravely takes the mound periodically when we […]
Editor’s Note: I’m not going to backdate the backlogged posts I’ve got coming, because it’s messed up the RSS feed options. This post is from Saturday night, after my arrival in Bois-Guillaume…
Fermin drove me to the St. Lazare train station on Saturday morning, and even helped me schlep all of my three enormous bags up […]
Just wanted to post a few last thoughts late on Friday night, as I’ve finally received my DSL modem from Club Internet France, which is convenient, as I move to Bois Guillaume tomorrow. My address and phone number will change once again, no doubt confusing the hell out of my credit card companies.
I’ve packed […]
My friends,
We are finally caught up on a hectic week and a half of posts. I’m reposting this one last time to make sure that the posts go out properly. I’ve put up four posts today, which I would recommend reading in chronologizal order. As you’ll see when you get through them, we’ve had […]
Listen closely… can you hear that? That deafening sound you hear is the sound of my phone not ringing. No word from either the Patriots or Woodchucks, nor from Lars, who promised to look around to see if any other teams were still looking for players. Aside from this post’s title track, the song of […]
