"So here's some advice I wish I would have got when I was your age: live every week like it's Shark Week."
I've been more than a little tied up with my thesis - gotta earn it if I want to be Mistress Zannah, right? - but I thought I'd share this picture with you all, since it's been disturbing me lately and, well, why keep something disturbing to yourself? I got it in the mail, and it's full of useful phone numbers and stuff, and I know the Bastille is the most recognizable landmark in the quartier, but let's talk about angles.

Now, if that picture doesn't make it clear enough, check a larger version of the picture
here. Now, maybe this is just my Puritanical Anglo-Saxon upbringing, but when you've been commissioned to create this huge statue to stick on the top of a huge pillar in the air, is it really that important to be anatomically correct? And, if it *is* that important to be anatomically correct, do you have to put a picture of said statue from THAT ANGLE on the cover of something that could, ostensibly, be a daily-use sort of object? Call me old-fashioned, but I can do without golden taint on my phone books.
Also, I know I've been swearing to write about my last trip (I really, really want to) but I can't justify taking the time when I've got a thesis actively whipping me. However, I promise to do it before my henna completely fades:

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