Baustelle.

I had a good laugh creating that image in Photoshop instead of working. I don't know about you, but this kind of visual+absurd humour is truly my thing. Now this could probably be much better done visually (Click on the image to view it larger)

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Live young & die fast.

With deadlines in line of sight, life has increased pace to the point that every second feels like half a second. Accordingly, I'm trying to gather enough willpower to sit still and write an insanely large number of pages per day. This of course succeeds only sporadically since, as everyone knows, recent in-depth studies, carried on my humble self, of such willpower have found no trace. It seems that only urgency can wake up a couple ancestral instincts buried deep inside my carefree person.

In about one month my studies are over.

In one month my studies are over.

In five weeks I'm not a student anymore.

I try and get used to that idea, but yet it still sounds infinitely distant.

It however implies quite a lot.

1) Find a job (difficulty index : Berlin 16 / Brussels 16 / Kyoto ?)

2) Find an apartment (Berlin 8 / Brussels 15 / Kyoto ?)

3) Spare money to make it to the 31st (Anywhere 12)

Optional but recommanded :

4) Find a prospective wife (Berlin 14 / Brussels 17 / Kyoto ?)

5) Get a car (Anywhere 6)

6) Have a baby (Anywhere 0)

7) Have a dog (Berlin 3 / Brussels 7 / Kyoto 12)

8) Get a barbecue and invite former classmates (Berlin 19 / Brussels 2 / Kyoto 47)

9) Have a second baby, preferably the opposite sex as point 6) (Anywhere 13)

10) Get a substantial salary rise (Berlin 12 / Brussels 17 / Kyoto 11)

11) Prepare a giant surprise party for my wife turning 40 (Anywhere 15)

12) Buy a half-demolished stone house in Provence and spend every summer restoring till my 60s (Berlin 14 / Brussels 10 / Kyoto 22)

13) Spend the rest of my life in it with my 25 years old girlfriend, begging my kids (by then in their 30s) to come and spend a few days in one of the six guest rooms. (Provence 10)

14) etc (Anywhere 3)

I have to say that's a lot to realize at once.