June 27, 2012
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(written on 28 February 2012)
“Have a nice weekend and see you on Monday!” I said to my French colleague Jean-Charles as I left the office on Friday.
“No, I’ll see you on Wednesday,” he said, “because I’ll be in Paris on Monday and Tuesday. Say, do you like macarons?”
“Oh they’re very nice!” I answered.
“Great, I’ll get you some!” – and with that said, the weekend had indeed commenced.
Today was Wednesday of course and much to my delight, Jean-Charles had stuck to his word and presented me with a box of wonderful macarons, produced by famous Parisian patisserie Ladurée. Needless to say that I took them home as if I was transporting a box of expensive jewellery. There, Daniel and I tried two each and the rich fruity flavour was just wonderful. It will take a lot of willpower not to go through this box as if macarons are going out of fashion.
In the evening, Spain kicked Portugal out of the Euro 2012 football competition and that gave a completely different feeling of satisfaction. “¡ESPAÑA SI!” is what I posted on Facebook, knowing that my upstairs (Portuguese) neighbour will read that. Both my upstairs neighbours have behaved in a very bad, selfish way with the renovations on the building earlier this year, and while I can’t do anything to turn that back, I can do many things that will annoy the hell out of them. Supporting Spain and being ecstatic about it is just one of things in my Magic Box of Nagging Nuisances.
