Work has been busy, as work is wont to be, hence the term “business”, but over the past month or so, I’ve been able to collect a few notes here and there. Since I can’t seem to write, much less think, a single coherent sentence, I am reduced to communicating in bullet form:

• April in Paris is lovely - as long as you’re not working. After spending a week, I found myself defeated. Working in Paris to me seems infuriating at best and purgatory at worst. Meetings start 15 minutes late. Strict social hierarchies rule the workplace and dictate how you dress and speak. All the while you are surrounded by a city with high food quality and an unusually enormous blue sky. Coming from NYC, it’s easy to forget how big the sky actually is up there. Oh wait, but you’re inside all day… hmm. You know what? The food makes it all worthwhile.
• All work and no play makes Ken a dull boy.
• The Good Shepherd is slow and a bit boring. Seeing Matt Damon and Anjelina Jolie shlep around as 40something parents is like seeing your 7 year old playing Abe Lincoln in the Neil Armstrong Elementary School 2nd Grade Class Play.
• Casino Royale was better than I expected. I used to want to watch all the Bond films at the local Video City. I think I got through about 6-7 of them before Video City stopped renting Betamax tapes. I’ve always had a soft spot for Bond.
• Food on airplanes is not much better than school lunch fare. The only difference is when you’re eating school lunches, you don’t really have a point of reference to much of anything better.
• In many cases it costs more to get the airport in Europe than to board the plane round trip.
• The NFL Draft is just what the fantasy football fiend in me needs to keep me going until September.
• Ramen Setagaya hasn’t opened yet in my neighborhood. The suspense is killing me. Is this the year we get good ramen?