Hello world, it’s that
time of the week again. Another Shanghai Czech-in entry totally not written in
Shanghai. The pandemic situation is seemingly improving. There’s more stores being opened, there’s definitely more people in the
streets, and even though everyone still walks around in a face mask, they often
wear it wrapped around their chin pulling it up only when they get close to one
another. It also seems that the number of new cases consistently decreases so the
trajectory here looks optimistic. However, in terms of international travels, I
don’t really hear any updates. Gonna have
to wait for that.
So yeah, I’m still
on my quarantine shit. It’s still
lots of workouts, lots of running, more and more teaching, cooking, eating, all
that. On Wednesday, I did a photoshoot for a friend who also lives in our
building. She is a photographer and since she’s
updating her portfolio these days, she figured she might use a tatted-up guy to
make it more colorful. We had like 90-minutes session, it was fun, the previews
look cool and I’m gonna share some of that
once I get the finals. I also somewhat finished a song and after like forever
updated my soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/taeb31/regular-check-dtb4life-remix).
On Thursday, we had a conference call with some students
from my Chinese uni. My supervisor kinda insists on us doing those weekly from
now on. The fact that he doesn’t
bother to attend illustrates how seriously he takes it. I haven’t seen the guy in more than a year
and frankly, I often forget that I’m doing
a PhD in the first place. Anyways, it was pretty okay and it’s nice seeing the younger students
still believing that this program will provide them with any sort of guidance
or academic value. Who am I to crush their dreams...
On Saturday, I joined my dad and his gf for a trip outside
of Brno to visit her daughter. We hopped on a train, rode for about 40km and
got out in a lovely village. We spent the day walking around hills, talking and
drinking. Pretty awesome day. I took the last evening train back to Brno – the others were spending the night.
Waiting for the train in the middle of the night at a completely empty station
had a bit of a mystique to it...
That’s about
it. Not the most eventful times but everything is good, everyone around is
positive and we are making it through this storm like some fucking bosses.
Talked to quite a lot of my people all over the world last week too. Everybody
is in good spirits which makes me happy too. Talk to you next week, until then
stay safe. One!
Highlights:
- The new Zizek book on Covid-19. Some awesome reads.
- Alina Baraz album. Dope.
- Czech countryside. We definitely got that going for us over here.
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