Yesterday, in a Christmas post, so to speak, I bemoaned our tendency to constantly bring home too much food from the market and from all the delightfully appealing little stores all around us in this city. But, fairly speaking, I did want to make sure I had plenty of food on hand as things closed down for Christmas. I sort of assumed everything would close down for Christmas in some big way, maybe because in the little town of Theoule Sur Mer, where we started out, places closed down for Christmas pretty much at the start of November, and are only slated to open sometime, allegedly, in January.
This, where we live now, however, is a big, modern city, and it only seems to be closing down maybe an hour or two early on Christmas Eve day, which the signs seem very apologetic about, and then for Christmas Day itself, which hardly seems some fantastic hardship. I've got too much food here anyway. Hopefully I'll have worked my way through it by the time you read this.
Another problem at the market is our tendency to launch into buying too early. I think we get excited by something we see and just start throwing stuff in baskets. But the Liberation Market has like 80 sellers. It might be worthwhile to walk around and get the lay of the land and formulate a plan. I've yet to learn to master fully the kind of greedy indulgence France brings out in me. "It'll all be here tomorrow." I need to tell myself.
Eventually I'll believe that.
Yesterday's post naturally led to a few pictures of me hamming it for the camera (well, fake me, in a real place), but the truth is I spent hours on making pictures of me in the markets that I still wanted to show you, so thank god there's always a tomorrow here on clerkmanifesto too...
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