Has it been 8 months already?
Damn. Time sure does fly by rather fast.
And I hate myself a bit for ignoring LJ all this time - more since I've wanted to come back and try and catch up with what's been happening around the world, and actually contribute to the mass of stories, but something or the other always comes up (mostly laziness and apathy though).
I hate that I have ended up censoring my thought process to an extent that I don't feel the urge to type out whole paragraphs about any subject, so I turn to spamming my Facebook friends' feeds with my microblogging (hah!) nonsense there - or share funny and weird stuff on Google Plus (hey.. There are quite a lot of fun people there - and it's NOT a graveyard, as most people would think).
Miraculously though, my Twitter Feed does resemble a junkyard, with me contributing nothing, but the feed being dominated by the multitude of tweets from different news agencies, a couple of magazines, standup comedians, and a couple of celebrities I don't hate (gotta have something to keep me entertained, I suppose).
So here's attempt number , where I make a silent resolution to myself, promising I won't break it like I inevitably do, that unlike Arnold Schwarzennegger, I *WILL* be back. I do miss the online family that was is Livejournal - but let's face it - most of us need a break from families.
And now for the main feature - ME ("as usual", I hear someone there groaning)
I'm doing rather well, the last 8 months have been mostly uneventful - well not really, but that's for another post. There has been something I haven't been comfortable talking to people or writing about, and I've been avoiding it, but since I discussed it in length with another friend in the last couple of days, I feel I'm ready to pen my thoughts for the world my LJ friends to see. Writing it down has been a bit cathartic - and painful, but it needs to be done some day - and it might as well be soon.
Oh, and not everything is depressing, so there's always the New Years' vacation I took along with some friends, in sunny Goa (a popular tourist destination out here in India, with its multitude of beaches and Portuguese influences - and for the carnivores, Vindaloo). Three whole days of getting away from the routine life in a metropolitan city - three days of relaxation, getting sand in unmentionable places, and sea water in the ears. Fun times!
2015, so far, has been rather dull and uneventful - which is a good thing. If nothing else, I've been working on a bit of conflict resolution within myself, and towards bettering myself (talk about a massive task), so I've decided I've had enough of being overworked and underpaid, and have made a decision to change workplaces soon enough (end of the semester). Let's see how that works out.
(In case you thought I was exaggerating about being overworked - I teach undergraduate Electrical Engineering - and this semester alone, I teach Multimedia Communications to around 80 students, am the Undergraduate Project Co-ordinator (around 21 teams of 4 each), the Co-ordinator for an upcoming National Conference at work (and I ended up learning CorelDraw on my own to design the brochures and posters), and maintain the online affiliation documents and web portal entries for the whole college as they crop up).
Yeah. No pressure at all =/
I haven't had a decent panic attack in a few months, so I suppose that's a good sign. (mini celebration)
That's all for now, I guess. I promise I'll be back soon. And catch up with all y'all. And write more. And be a good boy. And all that stuff.
Arrivederci!
And I hate myself a bit for ignoring LJ all this time - more since I've wanted to come back and try and catch up with what's been happening around the world, and actually contribute to the mass of stories, but something or the other always comes up (mostly laziness and apathy though).
I hate that I have ended up censoring my thought process to an extent that I don't feel the urge to type out whole paragraphs about any subject, so I turn to spamming my Facebook friends' feeds with my microblogging (hah!) nonsense there - or share funny and weird stuff on Google Plus (hey.. There are quite a lot of fun people there - and it's NOT a graveyard, as most people would think).
Miraculously though, my Twitter Feed does resemble a junkyard, with me contributing nothing, but the feed being dominated by the multitude of tweets from different news agencies, a couple of magazines, standup comedians, and a couple of celebrities I don't hate (gotta have something to keep me entertained, I suppose).
So here's attempt number , where I make a silent resolution to myself, promising I won't break it like I inevitably do, that unlike Arnold Schwarzennegger, I *WILL* be back. I do miss the online family that was is Livejournal - but let's face it - most of us need a break from families.
And now for the main feature - ME ("as usual", I hear someone there groaning)
I'm doing rather well, the last 8 months have been mostly uneventful - well not really, but that's for another post. There has been something I haven't been comfortable talking to people or writing about, and I've been avoiding it, but since I discussed it in length with another friend in the last couple of days, I feel I'm ready to pen my thoughts for the world my LJ friends to see. Writing it down has been a bit cathartic - and painful, but it needs to be done some day - and it might as well be soon.
Oh, and not everything is depressing, so there's always the New Years' vacation I took along with some friends, in sunny Goa (a popular tourist destination out here in India, with its multitude of beaches and Portuguese influences - and for the carnivores, Vindaloo). Three whole days of getting away from the routine life in a metropolitan city - three days of relaxation, getting sand in unmentionable places, and sea water in the ears. Fun times!
2015, so far, has been rather dull and uneventful - which is a good thing. If nothing else, I've been working on a bit of conflict resolution within myself, and towards bettering myself (talk about a massive task), so I've decided I've had enough of being overworked and underpaid, and have made a decision to change workplaces soon enough (end of the semester). Let's see how that works out.
(In case you thought I was exaggerating about being overworked - I teach undergraduate Electrical Engineering - and this semester alone, I teach Multimedia Communications to around 80 students, am the Undergraduate Project Co-ordinator (around 21 teams of 4 each), the Co-ordinator for an upcoming National Conference at work (and I ended up learning CorelDraw on my own to design the brochures and posters), and maintain the online affiliation documents and web portal entries for the whole college as they crop up).
Yeah. No pressure at all =/
I haven't had a decent panic attack in a few months, so I suppose that's a good sign. (mini celebration)
That's all for now, I guess. I promise I'll be back soon. And catch up with all y'all. And write more. And be a good boy. And all that stuff.
Arrivederci!