30.4.12

Blah-di-da

Living in the new place since a week ago. Something wonderful like that can only keep you happy for so long, until you start to come up with new ways of wasting time and energy, or in my case, fall into old time-wasting patterns.
    I just wish I had a plan, but then, all the plans I've previously had have proved less than executable in the long run. All life seems to me is a series of flips of a coin. Hardly ever have I got the result I was striving for, and it has made me very unfocused and prone to drifting. Like, I can try my utmost and get a random outcome x (instead of the desirable outcome a/b/c I wanted), or I can not do anything and get the same. Which one's easier and less disappointing? 
Or perhaps the reason I didn't reach the a/b/c outcome was because somewhere along the way I lost the interest and drive I had in it, resulting in getting the random x instead. And perhaps the reason that happened is that in the past, I have indeed accomplished those goals, only to find they weren't all that and I ended up wanting out.
    What I'm babbling about here is doing something instead of this nothing, but what, when and where? What would be worth the effort? I'm sick and tired of putting all my resources on the line and winding up empty-handed. Instead of seeing this as a transition phase, as mentioned in the previous post, now it feels like a permanent state of nothingness.
    I suppose thinking's not going to get me anywhere now either. I despise people who think very little, but maybe I'm just jealous, 'cause things are bound to be easier for them. I think I'm like a horse that's supposed to drag a carriage but is not wearing those eye-patches on the sides, which makes it hard.

In other, more concrete words: I should be learning the local language effectively enough to be able to study at university next year. But where can I find a course, and what course should it be, and you know what's the whole point anyway. I always get like this and later on, I regret being so irresponsible and... lazy? and weak-minded. The title of this blog is so fitting it hurts.

5.4.12

02

Seems like the 4-month blogging break made me fall off the wagon completely, I don't get the usual "must write about this" reaction, even though things have happened.
Firstly, we can finally move out, to a place where there's not gonna be any other people there. Which is nice, and also unimaginable to me right now. I've had all possible scenarios go through my head as to what good and what bad it will bring. I can never just wait and not speculate. Anyhow, just 2 more weeks, approximately. Then, no more restrictions to living. Or at least not as many.
I have also been sick with cold and done a small proofreading gig off the record with quite a good compensation (German-English translation).

My life's somehow constantly in a transition phase, or that's what it feels like. 'Once I get there and that, I'll be able to x'. Like now, I'm convinced that when I move and get in a somewhat more settled mode (which this form of living has not been, even despite lasting this long - 6 months which is about 5 months longer than planned), I'll start some healthy and useful routines. Like pilates. I have pilates instruction cards that I bought more than 4 years ago, and have been about to start doing pilates ever fucking since. Haven't really.

The list of things useful, bordering on compulsory, that I'm telling myself I'll start doing is long as hell, but what does it take to actually start? It requires seeing the goal clearly and believing it's worth the effort. Looks like I've gotten either lazy or nihilistic. At least I've stopped believing there's only one right way to go. There isn't. I've had ideas of "right ways" that never materialized, ergo not that much meant to be after all.

It's April and it's snowing like it's January. In past years this would've disappointed me sorely and made me grumpy, but I was told it would be like this, so I was prepared. Also, doesn't mean spring won't ever come. It will, and it will be better than in Northern Ireland.