As I plan to renew my membership in the Day Club, I have been looking at opportunities to enjoy everything Paris has to offer. With two years, and very careful planning, I am optimistic I can be the ULTIMATE tourist. Just today in fact, I found this list of heretofore closed museums that are opening this spring and summer.
The best aspect of being a member of the Day Club is the capacity one has to fill up "units of time" so completely as to be left wondering how there would ever be time to work. (For those of you unfamiliar with the specific measurement of a unit of time, please see Hugh Grant in "About a Boy.") In Paris, I believe this will become even more true.
At one point, I insisted to a friend that I would have one morning a week dedicated to Museums (4 units of time), another to shopping (2-4 units), and another to a tourist attraction (3 units) not yet visited. I would spend the early afternoon hours shopping in the local grocers market buying food for that evening (1 unit of time). I would take the little one home for an afternoon nap (hopefully 4 units), and prepare dinner (2 units). To me, it seemed the perfect day-- the perfect use of my units of time. Of course the friend scoffed at my good intentions. "Does it ever rain in your Paris?" she asked. Why do the French close their museums and stores for rain!! Good thing for me, Boston Legal's first season comes out on DVD May 23. Apparently, there would be nothing for me to do on rainy days in Paris otherwise.
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I believe said friend was attempting to point out that on rainy days one may not want to venture out every day in such a ritualistic manner. I think some other friends may have also pointed out the writers propensity to sleep in...if I remember correctly. Needless to say the entire idea is fabulous...and said friend might have been a little envious of "Day club" in Paris.
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