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Saturday picnic.

 As I wandered the Saturday market I thought up the idea of getting different things in which I could make a picnic for one. I got my usual large madelines with the little bump on the bottom. Some cheese covered in herbs. It acts like a spreadable chèvre, but the lady reassured the ladies in line in front of me that it was actually cheese from cows milk. Then some avocados. Baked crisps with sea salt and seaweed. The quintessential bagette. And a small bottle of white wine.
Everything for a perfect little picnic.

 Except it was a picnic in which everything went wrong. One of the avocados had started to turn and had exploded. And the wine cork had been soaking for too long and just deteriorated every time I tried to get it out. The wrapping for the top of the bottle sliced the side of my middle finger. A cut that looked like a bloody version of the 'crack on Amy's wall.' In the end I was forced to push the cork down into the bottle and drink the wine through my teeth to filter out pieces of cork. It wasn't any good and I left it in a park garbage can half drunk.

I wandered more around the area. I had heard of a park on Rue de Paris that allowed people to walk on the grass and had no restricted zones, so I decided to check it out. A beautiful pond. Filled with ducks and one very large swan.
I continued to wander. Down streets that I had been near but never traveled down. Looking at familiar sites from new and different angles.
In short, continuing to be unproductive because it was too nice out to sit in front of a computer screen.

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