A Fresh Start (up)

I remember when Nicolas was telling me: “stop being so enthusiastic about Web2.0, when you’ll be working you’ll see that you won’t have time for your blog or spending hours on Facebook”… He was definitely right, and I apologize for the lack of updates, but I’m still working like crazy and it’s not likely to get better due to the economic circumstances…

Anyway, just a quick update of these last weeks:

- I finally attended the “Journée d’appel à la Défense” at the Lycée Francais, it was just a nightmare, I was lost in the middle of more than 300 teenagers, suddenly realizing that I wasn’t one of them anymore, listening to some propaganda about how great it is to serve your country and how the army is changing your life for the best. And I even have to wake at 7am on a Saturday to listen to that… anyway, now I have my paper!

- I went to Vegas for the Shop.org conference, it was great to talk to people from the industry, but I realized that last year I enjoyed Vegas only because I was with plenty of good friends, but when you’re not there to party and have time to take a step back to look at the people in the street, it’s actually a pretty sad city… Pictures are here.

- We spent a week in Hawaii for our honeymoon, in Oahu and Maui, and it was great! Oahu (Waikiki and Honolulu) looks like Miami (too many buildings to be really heavenly) but Maui met my expectations: the beaches are gorgeous, it was amazing! We went boogie boarding, horseback riding, we attended a luau (and discovered the delicious Kalua Pork)… and we should have avoided going to the rainforest, because we ended up spending the night in a cottage in the middle of a banana farm, chasing geckoes out of the house and hoping that there would be no serial killer in the farm because there was nobody who could have helped us!! All in all, it was a great break, but I was happy to be back home: as always, I don’t like being away from home for too long, and I guess that one week is my limit. No trip around the world for me! Pictures are here.

- It was my birthday last Sunday, and I spent it in the plane, but I had lunch with the team this week in a French café (very nice) and yesterday we celebrated that at the restaurant with Audrey, David and his roommate. And then we attended the Santana concert in Mountain View, it was awesome! The guy is just a phenomenon, the atmosphere was great, we had a great time.

- Manue is coming here on Tuesday, I can’t wait, I start really missing my French friends, I want to spend a night discussing about the meaning of life, the definition of happiness, the goals that we should pursue… even if you wake up the morning after with exactly the same doubts.

- Finally, the crappy news, I lost $2700 on craigslist: I sent money to a landlord to book an apartment in NYC for Christmas, and the guy was a fraud and closed the account right after the money arrived, so basically I lost my $2700… I filed a police report but I don’t have much hope at this point, so I’m canceling the trip to NYC and my parents will visit me in SF instead… You can’t start to imagine how angry I am…

This is it,  talk to you soon guys!