I was struck by the feeling today that Christmas day had arrived early, what with the métro seeming oddly unclusted, the streets strangely empty and those people that you did bump into were brimming with the most un-parisien of cheerfullness and goodwill

Every trainee that i saw over the course of the day was bright-eyed and bushy tailed, as opposed to my colleagues who were all bleary-eyed and hung over - i can only surmise, then, that there are no Mcain supporters where i work ;@)

In e-mail exchanges, there were inevitable comments along the lines of 'good grief, i can't believe it, sanity has broken out !'