mercredi 8 octobre 2008

Waking up everyday!

It's winter time now!
Everyday NUW wakes up at 7 o'clock! Somedays it's earlier, somedays it's later but Getting UP is another diferent story! It's total darkness at this time of the day and of the year so e slumbers in his bed for a few moments waiting for the clock to show him a proper time. You know like 7.15, or 7.20 or even 7.30, but if it's 7.12 he stays 3 minutes more. You can called maniacal obssessive behavior, but it's his way of encouraging himself to move his ass out of bed.
Why he wakes up so early?! He's got a daughter that doesn't let him sleep more than her, plus he has a wife that moves all night, making his already shook up sleep dificult to attend! It's not her fault but it's true they need a bigger bed! That one isn't working for anyone!
He has considered sleeping pills, but his theory is that if he's not able to sleep it's a punishment because he played a lot of Console Games that day, and his brain is still at 10000000000 rpm's, so not easy to shut down! We're not talking about Han Solo's Millenium Falcon, that can come to a full stop after a overdrive.
While his wife dresses up their lovely daughter that doesn't stop screaming her loungs off, he goes to the bathroom and he takes a shower. It's hard to get out of the shower because, like everybody else, of course, he loves the feeling of hot scorching water falling in his neck and back. Finally after he's set his mind to cut the water out of the shower and get out of the bathtub he slips into his towel and he brushes his teeth, puts on some Deo and Eau de Toillet and heads to the his dressing room which is a small closet in his bedroom.
Everyday he has the same dilema! There are so many clothes he can fit in, with his sculptural body, but not so many that can really be used to go to work...
Not like there's a dress code, but one must look good!
After putting on pants, his tennis shoes and shirt he curls around his neck the "écharpe" and he puts on his long warm, silky inside, long black coat!
He packs up his meal for the day and his daughter's, dresses up her thick coat and they're off to the nanny's house to drop her off, for a whole day! After the two kisses on the cheeks he doesn't have the right to everyday, he runs to catch the surface train, known as TRAM, followed by the subway and a little walk outside, crossing the bridge and walking under the Railway's bridge always shaking due to the trains that pass over it. It's almost a deafning sound! You have the impression it's the sound all bowling pins hear before being knocked over!
When he get's to his job he always has to climb to the fifth floor because the door on the forth floor his only acessable by elevator if you come from the ground floor.
Sitting down on his computer he start's his everyday routine.

jeudi 25 septembre 2008

Why Crossing Lyon?

Because...

NUW is a young man, in his late 20's. He was born in Africa, where he lived most of his life, travelling between three great african countries and visiting numerous others.
He had a more or less happy childhood. Not escaping the "rule", his parents split up when he was of young age but he has yet to understand the imediate effects that had on him. Maybe none!
He lived with his brother, mom and grand parents until he finally finished school and went to Europe to study Architecture.
When he graduated from University he wanted to go elsewhere and that's when he decided to go to France, more specifically Lyon.
He had meet and visited this city earlier and he was pleased with the city's human scale and architecture. This could be a great place to settle down for a while.
Now he works and lives in Lyon. This is one of his many stories.
This may be a short blog, but it can also be a great blog!
It will depend on material to write about! Sometimes there's a lot, and sometimes not so much! NUW will write only if he has material to write about...of course subjects will probably look repeated from time to time but in every routine in everyday is a sucession of events that you give more or less attention. Somedays you pay attention to other stuff, even if everyday it's almost the same.
The thing is that one day you were looking elsewhere and you saw something else.
Of course there is always the moment where you see something that is rare, that doesn't happen often and that naturally captures your attention.
This is not where it begins...