Bronchite Happens

I'm sad to report that I'm sick as a dog. But I've never seen a sick dog in my life. Is that a common thing to cross path with ? Let's just say I'm as sick as an office worker, sick like a lad who spends his life inside, gets no sun, breathes A/C all the time and has a nice, yellow-ish neon tan. I'm also quite sleepy, feverish and dizzy, and my headache just left me for a better place when I swallowed two Advils some hours ago.

My brain feels trapped in another dimension, too far for me to use it today. I feel spaced out. My body walks the earth and my soul's somewhere, wandering, lost. Sinus incident, headless monsters. I am bronchite's Godzilla, a green lizard aiming to destroy your hometown whenever I sneeze. I personally prefer to snooze, but the body dealer my mother bought me at didn't get that.

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Miss Bijoux left for Toronto this morning and it feels strange. She just moved in and she's already leaving. She'll be gone for just a week but still, I'm mourning. She's such a wonderful person to live with that you get used to her real quick.

I keep my fingers crossed for her. The jewellry trade is not an easy business. And being away from home that often is not always easy. If you ever are in TO reading this, give her a shout out : she'll be at the One of a Kind show from Wednesday to Sunday. Missy Industry, white and pink booth with a skull logo and a real cute, smiling blonde with huge blue eyes.

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Sir Norman Foster's on fire these days. After designing the world's tallest bridge in France's Massif Central, a huge structure that heaps over the Tarn river and is 23 meters taller than the Eiffel Tower, construction of his emblematic Hearst Tower, in New York, is going well. It will be his first skyscraper in New York, and is the most hyped structure these days, while we're still waiting for Freedom Tower's construction to begin. A recent New York Times article detailed the 27 meters tall indoors waterfall that will stand in the lobby. Sure looks like a place to visit when it is launched later this year, in September.



He also unveiled the design of his "Russian Tower", an impressive structure that will pose as a "vertical city" and stand 50% taller than the Empire State Building. It should be erected in Moscow. It's rather puzzling that this structure will stand in piss poor Russia, but we shouldn't ask any questions with the "new great divide" between the very poor and the very rich. It just keeps getting larger & deeper. Like a bottomless pit.



I snatched this picture from lifewithoutbuildings.net, an excellent blog about, well, buildings... and I suggest you check it out !