Over a month has passed since the last time I posted on LiveJournal, though the last post hardly qualifies, as short as it was ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think to myself, why the fuck even bother with Europe, why not just learn Spanish and move to Latin America. This is what happens when it rains and rains and rains (and snows as an interlude) at a time of the year when there's supposed to be fucking flowers blooming and sunshine and when you can almost wear shorts and wade in various ( Read more... )

It has been TEN years since I've had this journal. I missed the actual anniversary in January, of course, but that doesn't matter. That's a decade of my life documented on here - it's a little unbelievable ( Read more... )

Remember that 30 day writing challenge I thought I would do in July? I failed miserably; I wrote on day 1 and I almost finished the piece for day 2, but after that, I honestly didn't have the time. I mean, I can't write at work (not for lack of time, it's just not the place to write; I never was able to do that). After work, all of last week, I ( Read more... )

Sometimes I really want to travel. Well, a lot of the times I really want to travel. Especially when seeing pictures of places far away, places I had never been, fog-crusted hills in Latin America, palm trees and empty beaches... Would it really be that hard to buy a one-way ticket, make an approximate plan of where to go and what to do, learn some ( Read more... )

Why should I bother telling anything to my mother when all she does is worry and tell me all the reasons why what I do/don't do/want to do is wrong and/or stupid ( Read more... )

So what's the news... (and why is my LJ full of bullet-point posts lately ( Read more... )

Today I...

• got a tiny Ford instead of a humongous Ford
• had to spend time listening to a woman from accounting (while my brain kept going oh shut up, I don't give a damn, I don't understand 98% of what you're saying and really, I just want to go home and take a nap• watched a ship leave for Finnland ( Read more... )

I'm going to be airborne on 9/11, for a much higher price than I could've been on 9/9, but the prospect of spending an extra weekend in Dublin was just too unpleasant. It was a more or less spontaneous booking, but I do have to get back eventually (sooner rather than later ( Read more... )

A few more times and I'm gonna get used to spontaneously booking tickets to go to places. Looks like I'm going to Ljubljana (again) this coming Thursday.