Exams, Paris and Part-Time Work: I blame my absence on them

It wasn’t me! It was the french!

You know those times of life when everything seems perfectly aligned to screw your free time? I am living one of those moments. If you guys have noticed, I haven’t posted for a while (not that I have someone who would care if I posted or not…).

The main reasons for this long absence were three: exams of my university course, a week-long trip to Paris and a overload of work on my part-time job. All of them combined made me stay away from any decent internet connection and both physically and mentally tired to post something barely decent.

My studying partner. You can guess which grade I had on that exam…

The Melancholy of Student Extrange

I’m still a university student, and with the recent changes on the structure of European courses, I was left barefooted and with no support in my old course, Agrarian Sciences Engineering ( it’s basically research applied to the development of agriculture). So I had a change of course to Computer Sciences due to my current professional experience. The problem is, since I’m basically restarting all over again, I’m having a bit of overload in terms of studying for exams, which kinda fried my neurons away.

Pretty, but don’t forget this is the land of the 5€ Cafe Aut Lait.

A day after my last exam, I went straight to Paris for a deserved week long vacation in Paris. In spite of being (censored) and (censored) cold and being (censored) tired from walking so much, in the general it was a pleasant trip. As any newbie turist, I visited the typical tourist spots like the Eifell Tower, Versailles, Basilica of the Sacré Coeur, the Champs-Élysées, etc. Specially pleasant was the Quartier Latin, a area of Paris where the Sobornne (The University of Paris) is located. The area it’s filled with bistros (small restaurants) from all the zones of the world, from Pakistan, Tibet, Italy, or even China, which made the area immersed with the scents of curry and fresh pasta.

Speaking of food, I was impressed with the number of kiosks and restaurants selling crepes all day long and the common sight of chocolate shops with chocolate eifell Towers in the shop’s display. I had to resist several times the urge to buy a chocolate heart to munch it. Eating in Paris was an adventure by itself, since my french vocabulary isn’t that good enough to identify all the dishes on the menus, so for a couple of times I’ve ordered withouth really knowing what I was going to eat.

The trip back to Portugal was a pain, since my ears started hurting like I was being ear humped by a couple of horny badgers. which left me near deaf for 2 days.

You know you have worked too much when the letters of the monitor start dancing to the rhythm of Freestyler

Right after my vacations, I’ve started working on a project whih takes me most of my free time. I can’t tell much about it or I would be impaled by my boss with a rusty machete. But luckily I got some interns to help me, so I can delegate the slave work to them (have you ever tried inserting 5000 candidate profiles on a database manually? After a while, you feel like you are tripping on acid…)

Insert witty coment here: author was too lazy to think of one at the time.

Finaly I got some free time, which will me allow me to empty my backlog (I don’t see anime for 4 weeks and half….). But what about my posts? I still intend to blog about Persona: Soul Trinity but I’ll probably drop posting about Spice and Wolf. Instead of it, I’ll bring back my manga reviews, which were my expertise. Igunis is also blogging about manga, so now we can help each other with our posts and share some opinions. I just hope my current karma doesn’t try to kill my blogging status again.