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Causes et circonstances : Mademoiselle Hèlene F, ma technicienne, et moi-même nous sommes séparées à la sortie de la réunion chez le client de notre employeur le 2 décembre en fin d’après-midi. J’ai pris le RER C, station Les Ardoines pour me rendre au siège de ma société 156 rue de Vaugirard, métro Pasteur. Me levant pour aller vers la porte, je suis tombé dans le couloir du train. On m’a aidé à me relever, les gens m’ont demandé comment j’allais, étourdie je suis sortie (station Pont de l’Alma) et je me suis assise sur le banc juste en face de la porte sur le quai. J’ai appelé mon concubin qui m’a conseillé de me rendre au poste de station : ce que j’ai fais (difficilement, mais heureusement le bureau était en haut des marches, et les escaliers muni d’une rampe). J’ai dicté mon témoignage, les pompiers sont venu me chercher et m’on amené à l’hôpital (HEGP). Pendant l’attente des pompiers, j’ai notifié mon employeur par téléphone de mon accident. Nota bene : mon ticket n’a pas été composté à la station Les Ardoines, mais à la station suivante : j’ai oublié de le faire, en montant dans le train, je l’ai fais au premier arrêt (assez vite pour rester dans le même train). Première personne avisée : Le personnel de la station Pont de l’Alma. La personne qui m’a aidée à me lever n’est pas descendue à cette station. Parcours : Rendez-vous professionnel -> lieu de travail Itinéraire : Départ : Sanofi-Avantis (adresse complète), station Les Ardoines, sortie RER C station Pont de l’Alma (blessée). Durée normale du parcours : estimée à 30 ~ 40 minutes. Distance parcourue : environ la moitié. Distance restante : environ la moitié Trajet habituel : oui, pour rendre visite à ce client. Trajet interrompu : non Déplacement pro : oui, cadre d’une mission : oui. Heure de l’accident : fin d’apres midi, vers 16 ou 17 heures. Horaire de votre journee de travail : 9 heures à 12 heures 13 heures 18 heures Lieu précis : wagon RER C. Date : 2 décembre 2005 Nature et siège des lésions : entorse importante de la cheville gauche
I had noticed that the cable from the TV antenna on the roof of the Institut du Radium building were I had my office was running down against the wall next to my windows. I hacked it, and hooked it to the Apple MacIntosh we had at this time (a 9600 ?), so we could watch some tv late at night. When I arrived in my office that day I met a physicist who told me his father had just called him to tell something important was going on in the US. I went to my office and switched the TV on, and people started coming, after a while the place was quite crowded. At some point I gave a phone call to Kathleen, and she joined us. She was terrified and was almost crying. Later we went back home, and we watched CNN International, the BBC, and the French TV. She asked me how I would feel if a plane would have crashed on the Eiffel tower. I guess it took a little bit more time for us, far from the USA, to understand how the Americans felt watching their country under attack and innocent people killed.
I first talk to Kathleen at a party at the Curie Institute. The music was loud, I couldn't hear her very well. I asked how old she was, I heard "29", and I thought that she was cute AND young. Later I learned that the answer was "39" :) A week later, I was sitting in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and she walked in front of me, and I said Hi, she smiled and said Hi too. Then I started emailing her. I sent her flowers, namely a bunch of red roses. They end up at the front desk of the building she was working in. She had to bring the flowers upstairs to the lab, and everybody was asking her who had sent them. We continue exchanging emails, I was to shy to make any move. One day I received a one line email "The double eight are auspicious". It was Kathleen inviting me for a dinner at her place, rue Daguerre, August 8... Our story started that evening.
Kathleen arrived at the airport, where the team leader was waiting for her, and he brought her immediately to the lab at Institut Curie. The picture is the Sainte Chapelle, located in the center of Paris.
Cloning and Characterization of a DNA Damage-Inducible Gene from Arabidopsis thaliana by Kathleen N. Smith
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11195/34592670.pdf?sequence=1
Bachelor of Science in Biology
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