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Name: Andrew
Country: France
Metro: Paris
Birthday: 9/8/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: tea, pipes, singing, jazz, singing jazz, thinking, picking out women's clothing, wearing men's clothing, reading a good mix of easy reads and challenging books
Expertise: i have graduated from college. therefore i am novice in everything and expert in nothing.
Occupation: Consulting
Industry: Business
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  levin2798
Member Since:
7/14/2004
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| check out underpantsnfrance.blogspot.com for a funny little tidbit
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| i am certainly an inhabitual user of xanga. occasionally i get the notion that i ought to jot a little note or two out here in cyberspace. it usually remains merely a notion. i suppose i could do a brief update of sorts. here goes. i am entering my 4th month as a business analyst for Deloitte Consulting. so far it has had thrills and non-thrills. i'll admit that my projects haven't been the most exciting, although being in nashville for the first was certainly a plus. my current project allows me to work from atlanta with an occasional trip to Fredericksburg VA. this is mostly good, as being home means i can carry out life in atlanta more than 3 days a week. i get to cook often, i go to a community group at church mid-week, i occasionally practice the mandolin. and this week, after 3 weeks of working in the office, i geniusly decided to work from home/coffee shop. hoorah. i am supposed to "roll off" (consultants have their own language which i find detestable--not difficult to understand for the "layman" but pretty silly. examples would be "hit it out of the park", "to have bandwidth", "to reach out to someone"...) after this coming week and so i've got my fingers crossed that i can get on a new project soon. complicating that is the fact that i'm leaving for Romania in 3 weeks(!!) for a week's stay, and then it's holiday season which means very few projects looking for analysts...it'll work out somehow. last night i went to see Robinella and the CC String Band in concert at Eddie's Attic. i think a former Decatur resident and fellow xangaer had mixed reviews, but i really enjoyed the venue. and the opening act was phenomenally interesting and very talented--guitar/violin duo, sort of jazzgrass, if i can use that term. honestly that's it. my life is boring. Romania should add some spice to my life. i've also been thinking lately about moving back to Paris. i have to explore the idea further to see if i could transfer offices to the Paris office of Deloitte, but i'd do it in a heartbeat if i could. lastly, if anyone's in town next friday you should come to our place for the 1st annual Novemberfest party. | | |
| i now officially live in atlanta. decatur, to be precise. in other official news, i had my first mandolin lesson on my teacher's front porch on college ave in decatur this past sunday. additionally officially, i am now a hired man. my tenure as a consultant has begun, and all i can say thus far is that it is potentially exciting, and certainly exhausting. speaking of which, i should be in bed if i'm to make it to work at 8 tomorrow.
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| last night i attended Hillsong Paris for the first time--a couple of friends invited me to go. they've been in existence for a year or so now and are going pretty strong. they have two services, and the first had 100-150 people. entering the theatre where they meet, i was very much reminded of going to Rolling Hills, as the space was clearly adapted this one night per week for the church. not to mention there were 9 billion people greeting and handing out water and pointing the way.
now i have no experience whatsoever with Hillsong. i suppose i've sung a few of their songs at some point, but i don't own any cds and haven't seen any videos or anything. i did, however, know a bit of what to expect. and i wasn't disappointed, so to speak. the room was rather energized, though clearly the more intense people sat near the front of the room. the sermon i felt was kind of hard to follow, which may have resulted from the fact that the pastor could not sit still. and anywhere he moved, his translator moved too. so therein was actually a great element of the church/service---the french aspect. i heard a lot of french in the lobby, and it wasn't just one international person to another. some of the musicians were french, as well as a lot of the staff. it seems that Hillsong Paris is doing a good job of assimilating, as well as not merely appealing to the anglophone population. musically, they were very thorough. two acoustic guitars, two electrics, two keyboards, one bass, drums, 4 singers. the words were also translated, though we only sang in English.
i suppose i was glad i went, as i had thought about going all year just to check it out. i'm not upset i didn't go earlier in the year, as i'm not sure i would have felt compelled to go back or get involved. at the very least i can now say i've been to Hillsong, whenever that might come up like in a "take a step forward if you've..." or "never have i ever..." game.
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