Happy birthday to Raiontzukai!

J'ai réalisé l'autre semaine que je suis sans doute aussi accro à Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin parce que ça ressemble incroyablement à Ally McBeal...

Autre quote, plutôt bitch, celle-là, glanée pendant le débat des chefs hier soir :

Jack Layton : Vous n'aurez jamais le pouvoir, M. Duceppe.
Gilles Duceppe : Vous non plus, d'ailleurs.

Quote du jour, la réponse de de ma mère, qui aime se tenir en forme, mais seulement de façon douce et principalement au moyen de tapis roulant, d'exerciseur elliptique et de vidéos d'aérobie, quand je lui ai dit qu'on avait monté deux montagnes en une journée à Lake Placid : "C'est quoi le but ?"

She said: Better, but still totally clueless as to what goes on in their heads.

And I thought, really? 'Cuz I've been wondering, too, but it's obvious that I'll never know.

J'ai fait ma tournée des blogues ce matin, ce qui comprend notamment celui d'IsaRockOn, qui s'est battue pendant un long moment, sans doute, avec le service à la clientèle de Dell et qui a demandé en vain à parler à un superviseur.

En partie parce que blogpost est bloqué au bureau et que je ne peux lui laisser un commentaire et en partie parce que c'est une info qui peut profiter à tous - je ne l'ai appris moi-même que récemment - j'ai cru bon de l'écrire ici : les employés des services à la clientèle de la planète ont l'instruction précise de ne pas passer un appel au superviseur dès la première demande. Je ne sais pas si le nombre de demandes varie beaucoup d'une entreprise à l'autre, mais dans le cas de Maridi, du temps où elle était téléphoniste, c'était à la troisième fois qu'elle transférait l'appel... donc voilà, ne lâchez pas, gang !

Here are two quotes du jour for the price of one.

Said last week by a coworker when it was time to pay for her meal and she wanted to tell the waitress to give her back five bucks: "Give me five."

Said this weekend by a French-speaking friend to an English-speaking hiker we spoke to in Lake Placid when she realized too late that she didn't know quite how to say what she meant to say: "Have a good, uh, hmm, get down."

Qui a écouté Tout le monde en parle hier soir, by the way ?

Parce que vraiment, je trouve que Stéphane Dion s'en est bien tiré. C'est super étonnant, mais franchement, il avait presque l'air d'une personne normale méritant du respect. Bravo Stéphane.

Je n'irai quand même pas jusqu'à m'écrier, comme Kovalev, que je vais voter pour toi, mais bon, continue de même.

So Raiontzukai and I went to Lake Placid this weekend with ten other friends/people we barely knew/people we did not know at all. We arrived Friday night to the cottage we rented. What an amazing place it was - well, presumably, every place that's equiped to be big enough for 12 people has to be amazingly big, but really! It was huge, beautiful, and beautifully-located. And split amongts 12 people, the price to pay was more than reasonable.

Anyways, we got up very early (Rob: that means 7 o'clock, and it IS very early for us Canadians ;)) and drove to Adirondack Loj in order to climb Wright Peak and Algonquin Peak. Yes, the two of them, while we were at it. And never mind the fact that it was the very first time I made any attempt at serious hiking.

It took us two hours to get to the fork from which we have access to Wright and Algonquin. We decided to go for Algonquin first as it is classified as "difficult" and we might as well get the hardest one out of the way while we still had energy. It took us another hour to get to the top, and it was fucking hard, let me tell you! We were disappointed once we got there because it was so cloudy and misty, so we couldn't see anything. And how windy and cold it was! We all sat down one behind the other next to a tall rock to have lunch, and then we started going down. We'd decided not to go up Wright Peak because of the lack of view up Algonquin Peak, but as we got back down to the fork, the skies cleared up.

So we climbed up Wright Peak from the fork, which took us about half an hour. The scenery was so amazing from there, we took a hundred pictures each and we stayed there for a good hour, after which we started going down.

We started hiking at 9 in the morning and got back to our cars at 5:30 in the afternoon. My knees hurt for the rest of the day, and let me tell you, since yesterday, I am seriously sore !

Yesterday we had breakfast in a restaurant, and then we went for a little shopping on Main St, which is, in case you didn't suspect it, the main street of Lake Placid. We bought some souvenirs AND I FOUND my new travel purse. Which I absolutely love. I really need to go somewhere soon so I can use it... Mel and I are supposed to go to Greece next year in August/September, and I couldn't possibly wait A WHOLE YEAR!!!!