(Tuesday evening)

Dusk is falling, and my apartment will be without electricity -- without a single lectricity! -- again tonight.

The people working on it were pulling the cable away from the wall when I came back this afternoon. Basically, the meter and the cable and everything were wrong (the cable itself was the kind that goes underground, not inside a building). Apparently it's the sort of thing you see a lot, and it's up to the discretion of the electrician from EDF whether to say you have to change it, but in this case the EDF guy decided it needed to go. Nice of them to just turn off the electricity as a way of communicating that... but anyway, I should have it back by tomorrow evening.

The word for electrical "ground" is "terre," I'm pleased to report.

I spent the day at the cafe working; called A, who came and worked alongside me on his stuff (an essay about his trip to Majorca for his Spanish class!). It was good to see him, and we're going to get together and watch Buffy tomorrow.

Work on the SALT abstract was going badly for a while until I gave up and started thinking about the other paper again. Nn had had a thought that I wrote a reply to, and that was quite productive. Back at the house just now I realized what (different) thing I should do for my SALT abstract, and I'm pretty happy about it so far, it has to do with futures in the antecedents of conditionals, a topic I've traditionally stayed away from, but now I think I can deal with it. (But I need to know, what's the metaphysical equivalent of a "question under discussion"? Anybody?)

Tonight I was going to meet another futurist who is in town (she's Romanian, and has a visiting gig with CNRS for a few months), but this lectricity stuff has made me crazy and I can't really deal with trekking out to the Cité Université tonight, so I rescheduled. I'll have a drink at the Gueule, and then head over to stay with Js. It is getting very awfully chilly here, too chilly to sleep here tonight, and besides, Js can help me eat all the food from my fridge if I bring it over to his place. Plus there is hot water there, not to mention internet!

Someday...I will have hot water again, and internet too...