Life is fucking beautiful

It's funny how everything just falls into place perfectly all at once like that.

I decided to take up German again in semester two in an attempt at not forgetting everything again and now I'm thinking that if I did three subjects and then found myself in some position to move out in October or November, I might be eligible for Youth Allowance. There's a box in the garage of bowls, plates, glasses and a salt shaker, set aside ( Read more... )

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination." -- Oscar Wilde

This place, this country, this continent is filled with possibilities. And so, if I haven't already, I will make the most of them.

I arrive in Berlin tomorrow.

I think I want to return in April. Maybe five months is long enough. I could live in Berlin for a little while and then travel around some more. See what Dublin and Galway and Manchester and Liverpool are like. Maybe run wild and free in Cornwall, wishing that I was a musical person ( Read more... )

I'm trying to walk an hour a day. Yesterday it was the 7-8 kilometers from Freiburg to here, following the train line so that I didn't get lost. I saw a squirrel, two goats, four horses and a pony.

Today I went walking in the forest; found a flying fox and flew through the air, looking at the trees and the mist and the town below.

I've developed a ( Read more... )

 At the end of the political compass-like quiz on OK Cupid (http://www.okcupid.com/politics) you are given the option of making up a law. The results are interesting. I like the person who wanted to reinforce secularism and the person who wanted to get rid of fossil fuels completely.

But this response made me uneasy:
"It's called the Law of Chlorine ( Read more... )

I tend to post things and then edit or delete them afterwards. I try not to, but it usually ends up happening.

I deleted my old journal because things have changed now and I couldn't go through and delete everything that I wanted to delete. Maybe it was my browser's way of telling me that 1984-style censorship is wrong. Or maybe I'm just missing a ( Read more... )