life (16 out of 312)

I just passed 30k words and I am ON TRACK for the FIRST TIME EVER.

Even the year I passed 50k by month end only happened because of a huge push in the last couple of days, rather than keeping a consistent pace throughout.

I've definitely had low days, and high ones to compensate, but nothing extreme. It just sort of feels much more doable this year. Not sure what's different. Well, lots of things are different; not sure which is the cause.

I'm writing a totally different genre to what I'm used to: Earth, presentish day (near future, perhaps), humans and parrots (and a dog); familiar setting, regular people, no aliens, no epic journeys. I was very worried about this actually, but things are flowing well, and I don't feel like I have written any absolute garbage purely for wordcount yet.

I've travelled, socialised and worked probably about the same amount as I did last year, though at different velocities. Not any less busy, particularly. I was free of all PhD concerns before last year's. Maybe my head is just in a better place. Maybe I'm becoming better at writing. Maybe October is better for writing than November. Who knows.

🏷 life Birds nanowrimo travel writing

18 Oct 2018, 23:14 (+03:00)

I picked up my e-residency from the Estonian Embassy this morning, and now I'm in a proper hipster cafe to work and eat vegan cake and drink flat white with quinoa milk surrounded by other cool lookin' laptop people, I'm at peak digital nomad today.



Also posting about it to social media.

🏷 digital nomad travel life hacking

18 Oct 2018, 12:36 (+03:00)

"You look good for having just come off a two day bus ride!"

This is just my look now. The multiple consecutive night bus look. I own it. I look like this all the time. I have no other look.

🏷 bus travel life

16 Oct 2018, 18:43 (+03:00)

My life is a neverending series of logistical puzzles to solve.

🏷 life

07 Oct 2018, 20:17 (+03:00)

Look at Boston up there with London and Edinburgh! It was on the map once. In the 1300s. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.



🏷 travel life boston

30 Sep 2018, 23:50 (+03:00)

So I couldn't blag a student ticket for the Trakai Island Castle museum, but two different bus drivers by default sold me a child ticket on the way there and back today.

(I don't normally try to pretend I'm a student, I just thought the full price was a bit steep on this occasion.)

🏷 travel life

30 Sep 2018, 21:38 (+03:00)

You can't get homesick when everywhere is home.

🏷 travel life

30 Sep 2018, 21:08 (+03:00)

I passed by chance through the Botanical Gardens in Vilnius today, and out of the corner of my eye I saw some beautiful puffy looking flowers and steered over to take a look. They were dahlias! This is significant because my MC for premature nanowrimo is called Dahlia. Also dahlias are beautiful. Also October is soon.



🏷 life dahlia travel nanowrimo

29 Sep 2018, 22:13 (+03:00)

In reply to: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/09/rave

Rave assessment: dark and loud.

I found a high place where I could stand and watch the crowds bobbing around for a while. I enjoyed the invisible feeling I also like in crowded shopping malls. Pushing through the crowds to find an open space was scary, and I was always taken aback when I made physical contact with someone else and had to remind myself that is just life in a crowd. Once I had a bit more space it was okay though. The music was sometimes interesting, but mostly repetitive beats too loud to hear. There wasn't anything.. artistic about it. It's sort of weird people come here on purpose (and stand in line for hours and pay money to do so). I guess drinking makes a difference I will never fully comprehend. As ever, it was nice to watch people dance, though most people weren't so much dancing as vaguely pulsating with the music.

I was relaxed and completely alone and free and still had no urge to move with the music. I closed my eyes and tried to find that place, but it isn't there.

If I did this sort of thing often I would definitely find a way to make my hair glow under ultraviolet.

🏷 travel life

29 Sep 2018, 10:54 (+03:00)

There's a giant rave at the club under my hostel tonight. The options the hostel offers to help people cope with this are free earplugs, or free entry to the rave.

Since earplugs don't fit in my unnaturally tiny earholes, I guess I'm going to the rave.

I've never been to a rave before.

🏷 rave travel life

28 Sep 2018, 17:34 (+03:00)



But.. but booking.com.. I can't read 1 million books in 3 months. I wish I could, but I can't..

🏷 kindle life

22 Sep 2018, 10:26 (+03:00)

A couple of years ago I met people while travelling with lifestyles I envied. Now I'm the person with the lifestyle other travellers envy. Feels good.

Specifically the fact that I figured out what I was envious of, and made it happen for myself. Not the being subject of envy part.

Not bragging, except I am, because I LOVE living like this and am PROUD of myself for just doing what I felt like even though it was easy and natural to do so.

Now 'scuse me while I go stand in a ten person line for the single hostel toilet for the fifth day in a row.

🏷 life travel

18 Sep 2018, 23:09 (+03:00)

Workplace design for small people: make sure when the chair is at its highest, the arms don't align perfectly with the desk preventing it from sliding all the way under.

Also.. make the highest height of the chair higher. I am so smol.

🏷 life

17 Sep 2018, 10:46 (+03:00)

Last summer I listened endlessly to Sia, and now the sound of her voice POWERFULLY invokes sunny Sarajevo; the feeling of hanging out by myself in my little flat, making flatbreads and waiting 4 hours for beans to cook in my half-assed kitchen, and feeling very very sad about something. If I'm feeling even a tiny bit fragile, just a couple of seconds of hearing her can make me burst into tears on the spot, from a combination of how I was feeling last summer, and a touch of Sarajevo-homesickness. Doesn't even have to be a song I know, just her voice. Which is slightly problematic, as she's still played in public spaces a lot. And also because I just want to listen to her when I need something bouncy and sometimes I can't.

🏷 life sia

14 Sep 2018, 17:38 (+03:00)

Why is the aesthetic of vape shops globally the same as vegan restaurants?

🏷 life vegan

14 Sep 2018, 14:18 (+03:00)

Which will be my spine's ultimate undoing?

1. Carrying all worldly possessions in backpack.
2. Posture at laptop.

🏷 life travel hacking

11 Sep 2018, 21:14 (+03:00)