7.10.2025

Sidewalks. Which side do you walk on? Six months of daily 8-15 km walks and I still haven't figured it out. More of a concern when there was only a single track down the center, weaving back and forth, irregular and unpredictable, climbing the snowy embankments, ending in a poubelle or an array of uncollected trash, forcing you into the street where you have to contend with drivers for space. Still it's an unsettled issue. Always in the way or getting cut off. I'm rarely in a hurry here but it's the principle. Maybe no one is in a hurry here and it doesn't matter.

Everyone under 35 here dresses like Billie Eilish in outsized baggy clothes with too many pockets like we wore in the 90s. Vintage shops on St Denis will sell the same crappy cargo shorts I wore in high school for like $50. I should save the unstylish stuff I wear now and sell it at an insane margin in the future. I'll run a racket, sneaking over the Vermont border with false-bottomed suitcases, the way they used to do with denim in the USSR.