Timeline

For a professional curriculum vitae, click here (in Dutch, 42 kB PDF).

2023

  • Participated in Code Rouge-Rood 3 (my second time) in Antwerp - got peppersprayed
  • Started seeing a therapist again
  • Got arrested for the first time in my life during a civil disobedient action
  • Participated in a Code Rouge-Rood occupation of a building site
  • Started taking antidepressants again
  • Backpacking trip in Brittany, France
  • Citytrip to Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2022

  • Stopped taking my antidepressants
  • Trip to Mont-Saint-Michel, France
  • Trip to Normandy, France with friends
  • Became an uncle
  • Citytrip to Vienna, Austria

2021

  • Moved to Keizerpoort, Ghent
  • Got operated on my stomach
  • End of relationship with Anne
  • Built my own computer for the first time
  • Deleted Facebook account

2020

  • Started working at the Federal Public Service - Finance
  • Started using the Fediverse
  • Switched to Linux as default OS
  • Adopted two cats: Rops & Alma
  • Outbreak of the corona-virus pandemic, cancelling all major travel plans for the year

2019

  • Citytrip to Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Got sterilized
  • Citytrip to Paris, France
  • Moved to Brabantdam, Ghent
  • Vacation in Ostend, Belgium
  • Death of grandmother Elizabeth
  • Started this blog
  • Relationship with Anne

2018

  • Started working at the NEO (National Employment Office)
  • Citytrip to Prague, Czech Republic

2017

  • Moved to Maaltebruggestraat, Ghent
  • Started working at ING
  • Roadtrip France
  • Started taking antidepressants

2016

  • Citytrip to Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Started a course in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts
  • Moved back to parents in Lovendegem

2015

  • Citytrip to Cambridge, UK
  • Bought my first typewriter
  • Graduated from Ghent University
  • Moved to house in Ekkergem with friends

2014

  • End of relationship with Joke
  • Citytrip to Budapest, Hungary

2013

  • Moved to studio at Kortrijksesteenweg, Ghent
  • Relationship with Joke

2011

  • Moved to house at Blaisantvest, Ghent, with friends, called “The Barrow”
  • Citytrip to Barcelona, Spain

2010

  • Bought my first (digital) SLR
  • First time voting in the national elections (federal level)
  • Citytrip to Berlin, Germany

2009

  • Moved into student-chamber at Visserij, Ghent
  • Death of grandfather Etienne
  • Death of grandfather Jozef
  • Citytrip to Berlin, Germany with KMF (Student society for moral sciences and philosophy)

2008

  • Made a Facebook account
  • Started studying philosophy at Ghent University
  • Graduated high-school

2007

  • Walked the West-Highland Way in Scotland, UK (CM holiday)
  • School trip to Barcelona, Spain

2005

  • CM holiday to Saint-Cecile, Belgium

2004

  • CM holiday to Maloja, Switzerland

2003

  • CM holiday to Kell am See, Germany

2002

  • CM holiday to Heer-sur-Meuse, Belgium

2001

  • Started wearing glasses

2000

  • Family vacation in Wales, the UK

1999

  • Family vacation to Denmark

1998

  • Family vacation to Falster, Denmark

1996

  • Family vacation to Denmark

1994

  • Family vacation to Brittany, France

1993

  • Family vacation to Denmark

1992

  • Birth of my sister Leila

1990

  • Born in Ghent, Belgium