In the end, I have decided to sign up for NaNoWriMo. The novel that I produce might be bad, but it will be an achievement to write the 50K - if I don’t hit a point somewhere in the middle where I simply run out of ideas. I’m currently on track, at about 8.5K. It’s a fantasy novel that is vaguely inspired by Slavic mythology. The characters are ( Read more... )

Yesterday's skating (training) session was earlier than usual, at 16:30, which means that I missed part of it due to traffic - I had to go directly from work, in the rush-hour. But despite that, it was quite a good one. There were fewer people, me and Anja, another girl from my “advanced adults” group, got to skate with the whiny teenage girls who ( Read more... )

Dear LiveJournal, I do not want my friends page to be called a Feed, I do not want infinite scrolling, I don’t want a uniform layout on all pages - basically, I do not want you to turn into Facebook or Tumblr. I use LJ for a very different purpose than I use FB. II never got into using Tumblr, as seemed a little pointless to me in the beginning and ( Read more... )

Oh my, NaNoWriMo is next month and I am once again tempted to participate, even though I know I will not find the time/discipline to complete the 50K words. This always creeps up on me, I totally forget and then it's like ooooh, it's that time of the year again.

I will definitely participate in mini_nanowrimo again this year, because it was great. Even though ( Read more... )

Call me irrational, but I'm looking at trips to Costa Rica for December or January. Or well, trips somewhere far away in December or January. And then I realize that that's still half a year away and am like - ohThe thing is, many of these already include a flight in the price, which is great ( Read more... )

The things I have noticed/learned about Slovenians and their country, in no particular order (these are generalizations/personal impressions ( Read more... )