Anthem

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

-Leonard Cohen

BRED

My French bank is called BRED. In general I'm pretty happy with it. It took 7 months to set up online banking. I've never met my banker (in France, this is important). They charge me a fee for being under 26. Despite these things, I'm pretty thrilled. At least they didn't try to shut down my account after the assistantship ended. Thank Heaven!!! The reason I'm writing about it today is not because of anything they did but because of what they might do. The reason being that I seem to have forgotten my BRED bank card PIN number. Being France, I hope they don't cancel the card. That would suck.