
It can be a struggle to get through the second half of the day.
Tomorrow is Bastille Day. It’s not a holiday I would, as an American, pay much attention to in normal times. But, mon dieu, as it has been noted, these are not normal times. Celebrating the storming of a symbol of tyranny feels like the right thing to do.

Some ideas for observing France’s National Day.
- Start the morning with cafe au lait and a croissant
- Watch Jefferson in Paris or Marie Antoinette
- Play the Guillotine card game
- Join AdabOfOppo in building your own guillotine
- Drink champagne
- Try your hand at French cooking
- Too hot to cook? Have a picnic with bread, cheese, and macarons
- Donate to your favorite revolutionary causes
- Eat cake
- Listen to La Marseillaise
But for my dog’s sake, please, no more fireworks!
Fireworks ended here pretty quickly, which is surprising considering I live in Florida. We typically have at least three people lose fingers locally. Fireworks only went on a couple of nights. Usually you can count on at least a week, and often longer.
We’ve had a month of fireworks, but they finally seem to have died down.
We just had more goddamned fireworks last night. Our dog was…not amused.
I get that people are bored but their damn fireworks are mediocre and boring too. And they bother my dog which pisses me off.
I was in Tahiti for Bastille Day once, everything was shut down. Like French Polynesians really needed another day to stop working and drink all day? No fireworks there, just lots of beautiful people smelling of coconut oil and dancing in the streets drinking cold Hinanos. Now this day is shot, I am already thinking about cold beer! This coffee break went south quickly.
It’s 5 o’clock somehwhere, no?
Incentive – hit it hard, there’s a cold one waiting for you at the end of the work day.
Oh shit…
I guess I will have to actually build one now.
…you can always start small?
There are a disturbing number of miniature guillotines for dollhouses on Etsy.
DIY circumcision?
LOL, or there’s a lot more Wednesday Adams goth tweens out there than I realized.
You have no excuse not to, lol.
“Eat cake”
I am totally up for celebrating Bastille Day.
I think I’ll dig out the Madeleine pans.