So after a rather depressing weekend of doing absolutely nothing, I have come around again.
I've continued watching this Human Weapon show, and it's awesome. While it definitely has it's cheesy moments (mostly coming from the former football player saying how he will crush someone with only 2 weeks training), I do enjoy the history aspects of it. The most recent episode focussed on savate, oh how fitting. As most of you probably don't know, savate (or boxe francais) is pretty much French kickboxing. Except they wear shoes, with hard toes, thus the name savate translates to "old boot". Pretty damn cool if you ask me. And as luck would have it I found a gym that you can train in it! Aaand it's like 10 minutes from my apartment. Yeah, that rocks. I can also do muay thai there, and it has a full fledged gym. It also re-opens it's regular hours the day before my birthday, so I think that's a perfect present to myself.
This has also given me reason to actually start practicing French more, as I can pretty much get by on what I have now. Sure, I can't understand the conversations at work for the most part, but I kind of zone out a lunch anyways.
Yeah, not much else to say. I constantly look for things to do at work, but it's a balance. Should I really go bug everyone and prevent them from doing work for my own selfish needs? As a result, I've just been doing little tests of my own, because I might as well.
I've also been researching how to create a database through excel linking word/rtf documents together. If anyone has any good tutorials on this, it'd be most appreciated.
I've also been planning my trip for September/the fall. It looks to be the big decision between either a Greece/Italy/Croatia tour or an Austria/Czech/Hungary/Croatia tour. Decisions decisions, what a pain.
Last night, as I went out for dinner, I ran into some Chinese American girls at the restaurant. At first, I didn't say anything, just casually overheard their conversation. But eventually I had to but in. They were complaining about how weird it was that French guys kiss each other on the cheek. That's how the French are, I explained, it's like hugging in North America. They also remarked how the French take the month of August off for vacation. "But, how do the businesses survive? Don't they want to make money?" The question is, what good is money if you can't do anything with it. Work so you don't have to work is the culture. I overheard some complaints as well about how they didn't get to choose their salad dressing, but I had to shake my head. Americans...sooo ignorant.
Party on everyone.
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Now playing: Amon Tobin - The Killer's Vanilla
I've continued watching this Human Weapon show, and it's awesome. While it definitely has it's cheesy moments (mostly coming from the former football player saying how he will crush someone with only 2 weeks training), I do enjoy the history aspects of it. The most recent episode focussed on savate, oh how fitting. As most of you probably don't know, savate (or boxe francais) is pretty much French kickboxing. Except they wear shoes, with hard toes, thus the name savate translates to "old boot". Pretty damn cool if you ask me. And as luck would have it I found a gym that you can train in it! Aaand it's like 10 minutes from my apartment. Yeah, that rocks. I can also do muay thai there, and it has a full fledged gym. It also re-opens it's regular hours the day before my birthday, so I think that's a perfect present to myself.
This has also given me reason to actually start practicing French more, as I can pretty much get by on what I have now. Sure, I can't understand the conversations at work for the most part, but I kind of zone out a lunch anyways.
Yeah, not much else to say. I constantly look for things to do at work, but it's a balance. Should I really go bug everyone and prevent them from doing work for my own selfish needs? As a result, I've just been doing little tests of my own, because I might as well.
I've also been researching how to create a database through excel linking word/rtf documents together. If anyone has any good tutorials on this, it'd be most appreciated.
I've also been planning my trip for September/the fall. It looks to be the big decision between either a Greece/Italy/Croatia tour or an Austria/Czech/Hungary/Croatia tour. Decisions decisions, what a pain.
Last night, as I went out for dinner, I ran into some Chinese American girls at the restaurant. At first, I didn't say anything, just casually overheard their conversation. But eventually I had to but in. They were complaining about how weird it was that French guys kiss each other on the cheek. That's how the French are, I explained, it's like hugging in North America. They also remarked how the French take the month of August off for vacation. "But, how do the businesses survive? Don't they want to make money?" The question is, what good is money if you can't do anything with it. Work so you don't have to work is the culture. I overheard some complaints as well about how they didn't get to choose their salad dressing, but I had to shake my head. Americans...sooo ignorant.
Party on everyone.
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Now playing: Amon Tobin - The Killer's Vanilla
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