Wanderlust.

I am thinking of leaving Geneva. Well, at least for now... I'm not sure where I am going to go this time if I leave. Geneva is great but it seems to be the place to be when you are older and further in your career, when you are some kind of big-shot. I'm just beginning so I always feel out of place and a bit isolated at my work. It is a great place to live when you are earning tons of money so that you can buy a chalet in the mountains and eat a thousand year old cheese for breakfast every morning (yuck). Okay, I exaggerate just a bit.



I think this is the perfect time to move to another place. Most of my friends have been transferred somewhere else. We all came to Geneva at the same time but they all left to do more interesting work elsewhere. It is a bit hard to go making new friends after two years of being around the same people. Also, I have no family here, neither am I in a relationship at the moment. It can get a bit lonely. booohooo. (ha!)

I am also almost done with my dissertation (ahem* ahem* not quite...hehehe)



Actually, I am drowning in an ocean of laziness and procrastination, yes, I have only done the first three chapters and the deadline is on the 15th of next month. I thrive on panic and I fart in the face of danger!!!

I will get it done! (chanting to self)

But seriously, when my dissertation is done by next month (by a great and mighty miracle), I feel like I should move. I need to figure out my next step because my permit expires in October. I love my job but I feel so isolated in the office (I am the only one in my 20s, everyone else is at least 45 years old). I can't take it anymore. I don't feel like renewing my permit or staying in Geneva. (Well, I would reconsider if there was a mysterious massive increase in my earnings hehehehe)

I usually have things planned a couple of months ahead but this time, I am feeling quite lost. It's only been two years but I really want to leave all of a sudden!!! It would be easier if I had tons of job offers, you know, people dying to hire me and pay me tons of cash. :P

Its been a while... Happy Summer!!!

Aaaaah... my little blog is growing cold :(
My life has been trapped in work and research, I think I'm slowly losing it!!! I hate books and school and reading and proposals and papers and articles and conventions and conferences and drafts and briefings and whatever else it is that people in academia do!!!!!!! I wish I could just travel all year round, read a book by the ocean and sip some coconut juice... hehehe...
I did do something fun in all the craziness:





A picture I took with my friends at the Annual Chocolate Festival in Versoix.

I ate soooooo much chocolate that day O_O
so goood but sooooo bad. It was an art exhibition, different wonderful presentations of tasty chocolate! Lets just say I wont be eating chocolate anytime soon (I lie and I kid ahahahahaha). That was a few months ago and I have since overcome my chocolate exhaustion...

Summer has been cold and depressing so far. I need some adventure!!! I am getting one week off and I am already making travel plans... I want somewhere exhilarating and fun... Istanbul??? Monte Carlo??? hehehehe... I love the sound of Monte Carlo... so mysterious, dangerous and sexy hehehehe... I have to stop dreaming, my one week break is not until August so I will be working my ass off until then. If I don't finish my project, no break for me!!!

So here's to a fulfilled summer AFTER I've done my work.
Cheers,
Lapen.