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<h2 id="org8e5bc29">Journal Week 28, 2025 (July 7 to 13) (suspended early)</h2>
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<h3 id="org07e480d">Monday, July 7</h3>
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<h5 id="org0ef661e"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Exercise</h5>
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<li>Stationary bike 40 min/16km</li>
<li>Cable Fly machine 3x6x40kg</li>
<li>Prone leg curl machine 3x6x30kg</li>
<li>Ab crunch machine 3x8x45kg</li>
<li>Arm extension machine 3x6x40kg</li>
<li>Swim 25 min</li>
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Walk 8000 steps/4km
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Whew, that was an intense day.
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<h5 id="org44e45e0"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Meditation</h5>
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Bit of walking meditation on the way to the pool, maybe ~15 mins.
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<h5 id="org374541e"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Runescape</h5>
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Completed <i>Dig Site</i> and both <i>Elemental Workshop</i>s last night. Next up is Woodcutting for Lost City. I was gonna be smart and have my GIM buddy help me skip the WC requirement on <i>Fremennik Isles</i> for the 10k XP but he&rsquo;s busy, so I guess soon will be my first bit of actual training in quite a while.
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<h5 id="orgc186c00"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> French</h5>
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<p>
Gonna add this to the rotation and mark it &ldquo;done&rdquo; for today though I mostly thought about it on a meta level. Tomorrow I&rsquo;ll try and write up a bit of it and set up a bit of a study plan.
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<h4 id="orgf84b10d">Journal</h4>
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Mostly been preoccupied with exercise today, so not much to report.
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<h3 id="org94674b3">Tuesday, July 8th</h3>
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<h5 id="org7f8d20a"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Exercise</h5>
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<li>Stationary bike 18km</li>
<li>The uhh abdominal back and forth thing (my baka-ass didn&rsquo;t note what it&rsquo;s called), 4x10x35kg</li>
<li>Chess press machine (6+5)x35kg &#x2013; my right shoulder is acting fucky again, so I had to end this one early</li>
<li>Leg extension machine (2x8+10)x40kg &#x2013; can probably up the weight on this next time</li>
<li>Vertical traction (lat thing) 3x8x45kg</li>
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<h5 id="org7365662"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Meditation</h5>
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Mainly daily life practice/morality stuff, but good stuff at that so I&rsquo;ll count it &#x2013; plus the exercise bike has been rather meditative.
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<h5 id="org1fb847a"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Runescape</h5>
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<p>
Completed <i>Lost City</i>. Forestry is good new content, I love it! My bf is making fun of what qualifies as &ldquo;content&rdquo; to runescape players, ww.
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<h5 id="org5b6c8a6"><span class="done CANCELLED">CANCELLED</span> French</h5>
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<p>
FOrgor
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<h4 id="org57454fd">Journal</h4>
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<h5 id="orgcbd279c">Exercise</h5>
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Another heavy exercise day! I feel good, the mind is sharp, but the body definitely needs a lot of recovery on days like this and energy comes in starts and stops. Next two days are rest days, at least! Honestly mixed feelings on rest days, they&rsquo;re necessary but I&rsquo;ve actually been really enjoying pushing the body ww. I&rsquo;m surprised how quickly the body is adapting to the exercise load, but that&rsquo;s being a man in his 20s for ya.
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<h5 id="org2f8ec63">Career</h5>
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<p>
It&rsquo;s not much of a surprise, but I got word that I got rejected for all the MSc programmes I applied to. It&rsquo;s a shame &#x2014; there&rsquo;s only a handful of English-taught compsci Master&rsquo;s programmes around here, and unlike in my home country they have very limited availability and are highly selective (in my home country getting into an MSc is essentially a rubber stamp if you have a BSc, so academic record is pretty mediocre).
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I guess it can&rsquo;t be helped, but it still sucks, both because I don&rsquo;t feel like the criterium used accurately represents me (I think my CV, motivation letter, academic references, grade of my BSc thesis are all really strong) and because I feel like I have zero options.
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It seems there&rsquo;s an appeal procedure that guarantees you&rsquo;ll be offered some masters or another within your field, but it&rsquo;s only accessible to people with a BSc from a French institution?? The explanation I was given is that it runs through the local board of education where you got your BSc, which is civics trivia and not a <i>reason</i>. Honestly this really ticks me off &#x2014; as a European citizen I have a right to live, work and get an education in any European country, and I hold an accredited European BSc, yet there are clearly rights that are arbitrarily extended only to locals. Especially hypocritical coming from the notoriously europhillic French! I can&rsquo;t really corroborate this, but I suspect there&rsquo;s an interesting lawsuit in this for a motivated person with a good lawyer.
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Regardless it&rsquo;s not a huge issue for me &#x2014; my career plans don&rsquo;t have an MSc as a load-bearing element. Going for further education would&rsquo;ve been very situationally convenient in this particular time window, but losing the option doesn&rsquo;t particularly set me back. Getting some extra student loans for living expenses was a part of the plan though, so the primary objective for the time being is earning a couple hundred bucks a month as supplementary income. I&rsquo;ll try to get back into software contracting for the time being.
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I&rsquo;ve started more seriously considering a career for the good cause, working for some manner of charity or non-profit &#x2014; somewhere I could put my oratory skills to greater use would be good. I notice over time I&rsquo;ve started considering <i>careers</i> outside of software a lot more, even if my passion for the computing cause has not diminished.
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<h3 id="org002ffce">Wednesday, July 9th</h3>
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<h4 id="org9ff1040" class="orgjq-contract-default">Dailies</h4>
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<h5 id="org9945516"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Exercise</h5>
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<p>
Not sure how many steps but I walked to the park and back (my phone was dead).
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<h5 id="org38549b1"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Meditation</h5>
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<p>
Breath meditation in the park, and walking meditation on the way back.
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<h5 id="orgfe0b136"><span class="done DONE">DONE</span> Runescape</h5>
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<p>
Completed <i>Restless Ghost</i> and <i>Lost City</i>.
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<h5 id="orgbe3992b"><span class="done CANCELLED">CANCELLED</span> French</h5>
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<p>
Just kinda slipped through in all the commotion.
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<h4 id="org7087e29">Journal</h4>
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<h5 id="org517740a">Ultraman</h5>
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<p>
Meet <b>Ultraman</b>, the latest member of the family:
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<figcaption><span class="figure-number">Figure 1: </span><i>Named in honor of the lady who in Tokyo told us in quiet confidence that Ultraman is her son. Don&rsquo;t worry, I cleaned him up again after this!</i></figcaption>
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<p>
I found him by the sidewalk as I was walking home from the park. He has a wound on the left side of his head and a mean gash on his right side, but he&rsquo;s been conscious and responsive all day and hasn&rsquo;t bled. He can move all his limbs but he can&rsquo;t stand. My friend, who keeps several pigeons he&rsquo;s rescued, thinks he&rsquo;s about 2 weeks old; at his advice I&rsquo;ve been feeding Ultraman baby food, which thankfully he does eat, and treated his wound with spray-on bandage.
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I really hope he recovers well.
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<h5 id="orgff4481c">Master&rsquo;s</h5>
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<p>
I&rsquo;ve sent an <a href="../other/ip_paris_appeal.html">appeal email</a> regarding my rejection from the Master&rsquo;s programmes I applied to at IP Paris. I&rsquo;ve reproduced the email on this blog because I think the information contained within is interesting and because I think it&rsquo;s a good letter.
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<h3 id="orgf531407">Thursday, July 10th</h3>
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<p>
<b><b>Q</b></b>: How is Ultraman doing?
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<p>
<b><b>A</b></b>: <i>He isn&rsquo;t; he&rsquo;s done.</i>
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In Memoriam.
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