food trucks...in paris!

i'm slow to catch on but i can't believe that there are now a few food trucks in paris. i'm just reading about it now on other blogs. one truck is called le camion qui fume (the smoking truck) and the other is cantine california. i read an article by the new york times which made it sound like the trucks first started in new york and spread to other major american cities. perhaps it did (i'm sure they were slightly biased towards new york, they always are) but i like to think that los angeles started it. los angeles made it what it is now especially with the koji truck. however, the food truck had a more humble beginning in los angeles. for as long as i can remember, i remember seeing these ugly steel food trucks around. they catered mostly to the  immigrant laborers. the food was awful. really bad american and mexican fast food.

fast forward 20-30 years and we now have these cool food trucks serving all sorts of fare. in los angeles, the koji korean-mexican fusion truck, took the food truck to a whole new level with serving good food. well, some at least. others are okay. (i have tried the kogi tacos. it's pretty darn good). so i was pretty excited to hear that a city like paris is experiencing this part of american culture. however, unlike in los angeles, the ones in paris have a set location they have to serve from. no moving around. can't wait to try it on my next visit!

astrology

my birthday was last wednesday, the 20th. in every book on astrology and every horoscope section in a magazine, that makes me a pisces. i know i'm a pisces/aries cusp since i was born on the last day of that sign. many years ago, my cousin bought a book that teaches you how to draw your own natal chart, step-by-step. i have been looking at it pretty often within the last year. however, i have two natal charts drawn. the only difference is that on one chart, i placed the sun in aries and the other chart, the sun is in pisces. so i got a hold of my cousin's book again, flipped to the sun's page, and found out in the year of my birth, the sun had moved into aries on my birthday. that means i was born under aries, not pisces, as i had always believed. i'm both though. it's just i never read my horoscope for aries. i definitely feel i am more of the fish. so now i'm going back and reading for aries in all the astrology sites i follow.

to my fellow 20th of march friends (and anyone else born on a cusp), if you are curious you can figure out exactly where the sun was when you were born, here (you will need to know the time you were born as well as the city you were born in).

thoughts

tonight i have been reading blogs of expats living in paris. i just wanted to see what it would do to me. would it reignite the dormant feelings i have for the city and country? i still love the haussmanian architecture. i love those windows you find in parisian apartments, i love and miss the food and the quality of the food, the metro, the monuments, and the beautiful language. however, ever since i came back from this last trip, as i told my cousin's husband, "i'm full." as in i don't feel a need to go back like i felt after my first trip. i don't feel pulled from within my soul anymore. (then again my visualisation board i created regarding my career path was predominantly about life in paris).

yeah, i'm not sure where i am right now or where i want to go next.

i had this brief back and forth with a friend via email. i told her i didn't get the job i applied for at ikea. that i will just wait for something else to open up and apply. she replied that it sounded like i needed an adventure. she herself will be moving to d.c. next week. her fiance had just recently accepted a new job out there. maybe i do need an adventure but what happens after i return home? i'll still be unemployed. if i do go somewhere big, it will be to west africa. i figured that is the first step towards that career i had planned out not too long ago. perhaps an adventure is something i need to look into at home. things are slow right now because i'm not going out and creating life.

other things on my plate: setting up my etsy shop. all those drawings i've done are meant for the shop. unfortunately it is a legitimate business so there is paperwork involved. i've also not made any drawings since november (?). sigh.

things are just not very interesting or exciting right now. i need to continue the momentum from january into the rest of the year. my birthday is coming up next week and to look back on my 30th and 31st year, i just see life that slipped away. this year has to be different.

the pisces' destiny

i don't talk about this very much, but i love to read about astrology. i love to read horoscopes. some suck, some don't. i've read enough to know which ones are worth reading.

i came across one recently by milton black. i read the profile for my sign, pisces. this is one of the things he mentioned. (i've never read this anywhere else).

"Pisces' destiny is bound up with traveling and foreign countries. Most likely they will travel a lot for business reasons or reside in a place or country different from where they were born."

well...that explains a lot. how many people (pisces) do i already know who have fulfilled this destiny? there's my japanese schoolmate in france. she's lived in canada, is now in a suburb of paris with her partner. before that they were living in england. then there's v, a new yorker, blogger at nonbiological momminess, who studied in london and is now married and residing there. another classmate from france is from lithuania. met her future french husband while they were both living in the netherlands. they now reside in france.

then there's me. i love to travel. i dreamed of living and working abroad, particularly in europe. however, now i'm not so sure if i still want it. the other thing that i wanted just as much was a guy. so for the past couple of weeks i've been thinking a lot about what i want more: love or career? which one will i regret (more) if i walk away from it? would any of my friends in the previous paragraph leave their country if they were already in a strong relationship? luckily this wasn't a question that they had to think about. sigh.