Woo hoo ! What’s best to start the week after a long week­end ? A blog award ! Friendly Danielle from SEO is for girls pre­sented me with this schmooze award — appar­ently I’m good at inter­act­ing with other blog­gers. Accord­ing to Mike from Ordi­nary folk who designed the award, “Schmooz­ing as defined by Dictionary.com is the abil­ity “to con­verse casu­ally, espe­cially in order to gain an advan­tage or make a social connection.”

So I’m one of the five lucky pick from Danielle, and it’s now my turn to pick five lucky win­ners. Here they are :

• Sir Jorge of the Video Store Blues : Jorge reads and com­ments on an amaz­ing num­ber of blogs every­day and is try­ing to build a nice e-community. He is also the owner of Sir Jorge’s mar­ket, Sir Jorge WWE Blog, The Mex­i­can DVD Review and gosh… I hope I don’t for­get any­thing — this guy is every­where on the web !

• Sil­verneu­rotic of The Post-College Years Part II : a very friendly woman who write almost every­day on her per­sonal blog, she always takes the time to “com­ment on com­ments” and to fol­low up. Go read her, she deserves it !

• Cow­boyft of A Cowboy’s Wife : she found me through Blogger’s group and we’ve been read­ing each other since then — her life is so dif­fer­ent than mine… it’s fas­ci­nat­ing ! She’s very friendly and open-minded.

• Dead­poo­lite at Deadpool’s Laugh­ing Den : ladies and gen­tle­men, here is the per­fect guy ! Funny, a lit­tle bit crazy (but good crazy !), quick-witted… and Greek ! He deserves the award for always help­ing and dis­cussing var­i­ous subjects.

• Princesse Écos­saise of La Belle Sai­son : she deserves the award for sev­eral excel­lent rea­sons. First of all, she’s Scot­tish and she blogs in Eng­lish (duh !) and in French. As a teacher, I can only praise her. Sec­ond, she’s always ready to help : she sent me some great ques­tions to put in my FAQ. And finally she’s awe­some ! Funny, good writer, in love with a French guy… 10 / 10 girl !

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And appar­ently, the blo­gos­phere was very active this week-end since I’ve also been tagged by Cow­boyft of a Cowboy’s Wife on the “8 things meme”.

The Rules: “Each per­son posts the rules before their list, then they list 8 things about them­selves. At the end of the post, that per­son tags and links to 8 other peo­ple and then vis­its those peo­ples’ sites and com­ments let­ting them know that they have been tagged, and to come read the post, so they know what they have to do.”

So…

1) I rarely wear make-up because, let’s face it, I’m not really fully awake before 10 am. And I’d rather no poke my eye out when putting the eye­liner on.

2) My favorite snack is yogurt and gra­nola with honey on the top. Although I pre­tend I only eat fruits when asked.

3) I go through geeky phases where I’d spend hours fix­ing the HTML in my blog, try­ing new soft­ware demo and cus­tomiz­ing my Firefox.

4) I hate going to disco : I’d rather meet friends in a café or a restau­rant — basi­cally any­where where we can actu­ally talk and hear each other.

5) I love con­certs and the last cou­ple of years, I saw U2, the Red Hot Chili Pep­pers, the Rolling Stones and Manu Chao live.

6) I hate Paris. The city, not the woman. Well, not that I like Paris-the-blond any­way. Although I admit Paris is a nice place to visit, the city makes me feel uncomfortable.

7) When I make a gram­mar mis­take in front of my stu­dents, I just pre­tend they didn’t hear right. Then I blame them for not listening.

I import my bras from France. I’m seri­ous. If you want good sweater or jack­ets, Canada is fine. But noth­ing beats a French bra. So every 5 months or so, my mum send me a few bras, wrapped in news­pa­pers. Duh : in case the cus­toms open the package !

Let’s make some­one else suf­fer on these ques­tions… Vic­tims : Wapen­take, One Men’s Travel Blog, A New Per­spec­tive… and all the lucky award winners !

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