Mid-Week Stream of Consciousness

Today is one of those days when I feel like my head is a claw vending machine. My thought process has just been incredibly slow (and I don’t know why) and I can never find the information I’m looking for, even if I know that it’s already stored somewhere in the lump of grey [...]

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Ah, the French…

Why is it the French can’t have a ‘normal’ bureaucracy system with the typical level of red-tape you find in most Western countries? For some reason they decided they had to make it far more complicated. My issue with them at the moment concerns obtaining a carte vitale – the card that ensures [...]

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A not so exciting weekend in the life of a tck…

This weekend has got to be my laziest one in Annecy so far. This is about as close to doing literally nothing over a weekend as I’ve ever come to before. On Friday after work the weather was quite good, so I went for a bike ride around the lake. Right after [...]

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My next trip

That’s right, I’ve finally booked my next trip! Here are some Google-sourced images of my destination:

I’ll be flying into Budapest and spending 2 weeks in Hungary this summer. I’ll be flying solo (well, I’ll be doing the rest of the trip on my own as well…), because most of the other people I [...]

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Fear of Death

No, this post isn’t about how I’m afraid of getting old and dying and how I never want to die. It’s about the fact that these days death is such a taboo subject. Sure, we all have relatives who die and we all know that accidents and natural disasters happen [...]

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The Changing of Seasons

The other day, during one of my (frequent) bored moments at work, I was looking at a calendar and I realised that I’m already more than halfway through my stay in Annecy. It’s amazing how quickly the first few weeks and months can pass. Before you know it, you’re already counting down the [...]

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