Last night was my first dream in French. That could be a sign of increasing aptitude, but it wasn't the good dream, where you're on a wooden raft with Brigitte Bardot chatting fluently, and suddenly Balzac is there and you're having an opium-fuelled ménage à trois. Instead, I was in freshman French and I was 26. I was trying to read aloud, but my mouth couldn't pronounce a single word. The young kids were all snickering and then someone spat on me.

day one on the farm, waking up with the cabbages

roman road from La Gaude to Vence