Flashes of Panic

A friend of mine who sometimes comments here will be relocating to France later this year. (I don’t think she’s told her employers yet, so we’re being obscure and secretive when we discuss it through email.) I believe the program involves teaching English.

We’ve agreed that this would be a really good weblog, and I’ve offered to set up something on flashesofpanic.com—subdomain, subdirectory, something like that—following the From Russia With Blog precedent.

Of course, she’s got about a zillion other things to worry about, and hasn’t committed to this idea. I don’t have answers for a lot of her questions. For instance: what’s the easiest way to get online? One’s own computer and dialup? Is there public internet access (in libraries, for instance) in France? Cybercafes? Is the dialup still like blowing grapes through a very small straw, like it was when I was in Spain in 1999?

Suggestions, suggestions. Surely among the three of you someone knows more about this stuff than I do.

Now playing: Wrapped in Grey from Nonsuch by XTC