Friday 2/09/2011 Museum closed.
I had a relatively late start but headed straight for the Orange Store where I had bought my Mobicarte and Internet Max. Still not operational so something has not been "activated". The woman who sold me the SIM was not there (unfortunately) and the available techie/salesperson directed me to the Orange Boutique near the Notre Dame Cathedral as the only place that sorted out Mobicarte problems. Highly skeptical of his advice because I know the brush-off when it happens; basically "we have your money now just go away". However I need to find the best way to the Cathedral so I will try to find this Boutique tomorrow, Saturday.
I will recharge my Navigo card for next week at the RER station and buy a couple of Metro tickets to get to the Cathedral and back. The address he wrote down was almost indecipherable but the desk lady at my Maison figured it out for me. By playing around with combinations of words in his address I got Google map to show me where I am supposed to go. Almost but not quite his directions. I will take my paperwork with me and see what happens. These stores are flat-out busy every time I go past one. Either Orange Telecom is very popular or they have lots of problems with their products!
I loaded the rest of the Le Havre video/images into the computer and will clear the memory card for fresh photos. I also need to back-up the computer files onto my portable hard-drive, a job for tomorrow.
I shot off a quick up-date (on the Le Havre archive research) to my JCU MSc supervisors and received a reminder that my literature review and seminar will be due when I get back. I have not worried about the review until now, being totally preoccupied so far with the planning and execution of the travel / field-research. I am connected to the internet so there is no real problem, other than motivation, in pulling together the relevant literature. Deciding what is relevant will be the crux of the matter.
I attempted to load some of my videos onto the blog but the software is resisting me!!! I loaded a still photograph of a Lesueur painting from the Le Havre collection, instead.
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