27 years old, about 5 months left of that before turning 28. I see myself as a pretty resilient person, but it’s starting to be a bit long. My roommate met someone after the first lockdown (march-may), and decided to move in with her in September, so I’ve been living by myself in an awesome (lucky) apartment since.

I’ve played a crazy amount of time of World of Warcraft between April and December, as I’ve been out of work to do between April and July, and out of work with no job between Aug. and November. I’ve since found a job that I really like so that’s the silver lining of the past few months. But it’s entirely remote for now, I only met one time my manager, otherwise its mostly work and the occasional Teams meeting.

It’s hard to date. Picked it up again when I found a job because I didn’t had the desire before. Met 4 people, but I feel like its really hard to connect with someone if you can’t do anything outside because of a curfew/lockdown… So yeah, I do the occasional bending the rules, otherwise the only exit strategy is to go insane.

I don’t know how to feel about the strategy. A part of me wants to say that everyone under 50 or something like that should be able to live life as usual as the upsides seems to exceed the downsides of covid19, but I guess we can’t politically act that ; so everybody has to get hurt? I don’t know. How can Israel be at 33.93% of its population vaccinated, but we are only at 0.90% ? It’s insanely slow.

I send you all kisses from France, and hope you are holding everything up. Otherwise, you can always shoot me a dm <3

San Antonio Pass, 5000m, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru

The Milky Way, from Atacama, Chile

(Taken with a Galaxy S10, edited via LightroomCC app. I'm impressed that I can get that result from a phone with an exposure of only 10 secs)

I'm looking forward to go back home after a full month of holiday. Will be back in Paris on sept. 1

Made it up there after 4 days of intense hiking through the Salkantay Pass.

My girlfriend dumped me. It was only 2 months in, but I had (still have) feelings for her. It sucks. I'm torn between trying to get her back on one hand and forgetting/accepting it entirely on the other hand. I feel like she decided to quit at the first hiccup and that makes me sad.

I will be spending a month in Peru in August, so I'm looking forward to that.

I just registered for the Cebu Marathon in the Philippines. It's in three months (14th January). I don't really run that often, but this a way to commit and have a goal. We will see how it goes!

I've been living in a hostel for a month and a half now in Taipei. It still feels good, I don't regret my choice. The location is really nice with great restaurants near it from all over the world (lebanese, russian, german, mexican, italien) and a lot of asian food (chinese-taiwanese, japanese, korean). University is close, it's cheap, and a lot of my new friends are living close by.

I'm going to South Korea for six days tomorrow ! Looking forward to that :)

Macron is going to have everybody behind him -- the media, almost all the other candidates (Fillon -- 19% and Hamon -- 6% already said they are going to vote for him), and he's already ahead in the first round (still counting though).

The polls were right at a very precise level for the first round. For now, polls gives between 60-65% for Macron against 35-40% for Le Pen in the second round.

I can't be 100% sure, but I'm 99.9% confident and I would put money on this on PredictIt. If it was Fillon vs LePen, I would have more doubt, but here it seems to be a no brainer -- as of today.

I did a hitchhiking race from Lille to Copenhagen in one week. We were 24 teams of 2 (m/m or m/f, for safety issues) with 15 organizers.

Every morning, we were given an envelope with the destination of the day and we had to get there without spending a penny. We went to Utrecht (a mini-Amsterdam in the Netherlands), Niederlandenbeck (a small village of 40 peoples in Germany), Hambourg (a mini-Berlin), Kolding and Copenhagen (in Denmark). In one week, we did ~ 1400 kms (870 miles) and we got there with approximately 24 cars and one truck.

The truck driver asked us to unshoe because he installed a little carpet. There was also a porn calendar and some kitchen paper at hand's reach, it was pretty funny. We went in a car with a CEO who just signed a 100 000 € contract and was pretty happy in a beautiful Mercedes, he created a product which aims to reproduce the yellow pages for compagnies. There was a guy who did MMA, a couple who went to a little cabin in Sweden to disconnect from the world and breathe, a sculptor, a fisher who fished in Antarctica and builds roads who was at 220 km/h (136,70 mph) on the highway in Germany.

There was a guy who did a 500 kms detour for a team. Another who bought 6 burger kings menu to 3 teams. A lot of great people.

Overall it was a really great experience.

Now I'm back to reality and I have to be ready for school/university interviews while searching for a summer job, but I spend way too much time playing Civilization V with friends. I'm also planning an Interrail trip in August and for now we planned to go to Milan, Rome, Athens, Istanbul and Prague. It should be another great adventure.

I don't think there's anything inherently racist to basically acknowledging different races

Well, I would like to quote Toni Morrison, discussing the absurdity of racism on The Colbert Report :

There is no such thing as race, none, there is just a human race, scientifically and biologically, racism is a construct, a social construct and it has benefits, money can be made of of it, people who don’t like themselves can feel better because of it, it can describes certain kinds of behavior that are wrong or misleading. So it has a social function, racism, but race can only be defined as a human being.

I've been friends with her for four years. Recently, I started seeing her 1-1 and I thought I would be able to maintain our relation as it was : just friends. But I started having feelings for her. I really don't know what to do. She's smart, funny, friendly and extremely beautiful and I'm going to tell her tomorrow what I feel because I will not live with that "what if [...]" in my head. It's probably going to be very awkward. She's probably not going to understand but I have to be honest about my feelings. Emotions are really not my area of expertise and I'm probably going to spend some shitty weeks after that if it goes down the wrong way.

It's been a month and a half since I moved to Lyon. So far, it's great :

I started running again (I did 10 kms in one hour last time), will try to run 20 kms every week by December.

I'm eating relatively healthy food considering the situation.

The school is nice, there are a lot of great people and the courses are ok. Still trying to figure out what to do later. About this : I have the opportunity to do a semester aboard, I'm interested by the United States and I might have the chance to get into these universities for one semester : TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ; CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ; ROLLINS COLLEGE. I didn't start to check these out yet, some of you know if it's any good ?

I went to a week-end in the Alps with friends, it was amazing views and colors all around us. To give you an idea : http://imgur.com/XGTWz21 (it's me! ; it was taken with a Galaxy S6).

Birdman deserves it. I saw it yesterday and it was really amazing. I think that the conflict inside Michael Keaton character reflects some of us at one point in our life, in the sense that we want to find a place and we risk it all instead of continuing something that somehow works, but aren't sure if it's gonna work out. The long take was really great, the drums too, and Edward Norton was fantastic. The fact that hours of work can be bashed by a simple comment must be terrifying for artists/entrepreneurs.

American Sniper was good, not great. The actors are solid, the ambience is great, but I felt it misses something. Maybe a lack of the perspective of the other side on the conflict.

The Imitation Game was great. I knew some of the story of Alan Turing, but the film really put into perspective how important his work turned out to be.

Boyhood was amazing, it reflected me, growing up. I'm 21 and my brother is 24, so I connected a lot with Mason. In addition to that, I really like Richard Linklater (The "Before" Trilogy is fantastic), and the fact that the film is filmed over a period of 12 years is kind of revolutionary and adds a lot to the power of the movie.

The Theory of Everthing is emotionally heavy. Eddie Redmayne deserves his oscar, even if some consider that the film was an oscar-bait. I really enjoyed it. It's kind of extraordinary how some people, in the face of adversity, continue to work extremelly hard.

Whiplash was also amazing. The music, J.K. Simmons and the story are great. It's worth watching.

I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel but I didn't really connected with this one.

Selma isn't available yet where I live.