When there are two contrary wrongs, one must be a right.

I was just reviewing my pictures. I finally merged the ones from my old computer with the new ones that I managed to come by on my new computer. This one was taken by my friend while on a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine at the end of October and beginning of November, 2006. Seems like that was forever ago now, while barely a month passed. It was an amazing trip.

A lot of things happened lately. University, life, work. Well, work :) It's always there. Life, too. I met some people that I was quite excited to finally meet, and it immediately went downhill. I don't even know why, and I don't really feel any real reason. I don't even feel that it went downhill. Apparently, it has, though. I think that's just making life too complicated; there's absolutely no reason to create problems at this stage for yourself and for others. At first, I thought it was just a test. That was a naive thought to have.

I guess that if I really want to go visit Portugal before I leave France, I'll have to do it on my own.

I finally finished a website design for Caroline Leroyer, a local artist. I really like it, and it's apparently been working really well for her, which is great.

I've been thinking, on and off, about getting involved in publications at the university. I'm not sure if I want to take up running one of the established ones, but I'm also not sure if I really want to jump in and start a brand new one. It would be an open one not tied to any department, which is ever harder than a publication tied to a department that doesn't require papers to be written for classes. The editor of one such "paper-less" publication has noted how difficult it is to get people to write articles specifically for him. No one has time, or energy, or interest. Imagine me, I'll be one step further: an "independent". Maybe I'll make it a digital one.

I've been noticing a significant amount of traffic looking for images that used to exist but were taken down at one point or other. It's interesting, I guess people must have linked directly to them. I'm considering returning those images back. Maybe.

I'm excited to be moving apartments, I am tired of all the noise in this neighborhood. The new place is much nicer, also, just on the edge of the 16th (for those who know what that is). People have started asking what I'm planning to do after undergrad. It's interesting, partly because I really have no clue. Some people are surprised, some get very pedagogical ("you should know by now"), others are in the same boat looking for some kind of a direction. I am really just now starting to realize that the world is open, it's really up to me to decide where to go from here. Looking forward to it.

I'm looking forward to going back home for Christmas. This is the first time I've not been home for a while semester. It's not long for me, but I am still looking forward to going back for a bit. And partially, I want to leave France again for a bit. As much as I like Paris, it's really hard for me to stay here for long periods of time. I need a break, even if only a short one.

I was talking to a friend yesterday, or a few days before that. We touched on so many topics, so I don't remember what we were talking about, but we were talking about notions of "right" and "wrong". It may have even been France, or the French. That's where the title came from. I need to start a collection of quotes, it's getting hard to remember all of them. I nearly forgot this one.

Perhaps calling this Reflections would have been better; it's just a random collection of thoughts in no particular order. On life, the universe and everything.

December 1, 2006. mno2go@gmail.com