Blog post. Haven't done this in a while.
I should really be doing my taxes right now. I should have just done them in January and move on. But no, I always leave things to the last minute. Welcome to the life of a professional procrastinator. Ooh, alliteration!
Watched The Fellowship of the Ring with my dad yesterday. Which was weird. I basically know those movies by heart, and I love them to death, and then my dad kept pointing out things like, "Okay, if those woods are dangerous, why do they have to go through there? Why not just take another path?" And I had to come to the realization that fate is a really neat way to drive your plot. It's just because they have to. It's where they're supposed to go. It's what is supposed to happen. Which is, admittedly, very bad reasoning.
Going to spend two days with extended family. I don't know who exactly is going to come, but probably loads of old people. Friends and relatives of my grandparents. Shame I have hardly any cousins actually in my age range. I'm sort of looking forwards to it, anyway. But sort of not, too. That was a very strange not-sentence.
My excitement for Camp NaNo has sort of drained again. I just really want my stupid exam to be over and be able to jump up and down and squeal because it's SUMMER and SUMMER is AWESOME. And also, start writing my novel and see where it takes me.
Also started watching the TV show Girls, and I wonder if I'm gonna end up like Hannah. Unemployed, broke, and with dreams too big for me. Because let's face it, studying English is just not gonna buy you a job. It's a pretty useless degree. That is pretty, and degree-y, and useless. And the word degree-y totally doesn't work.
Ah, yes, the joys of being a wanna-be writer, who enjoys thoughts and coffee and books and puns and invented words. I'm basically programmed to be a faliure in our efficient, capitalistic, progress-oriented society. Except maybe that I'm furthering the economy with my coffee addiction.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Bookish Life Ambitions
I want to read more books. I love books. I also want to work in a book shop at one point in my life. It would be awesome if I got a job at the local English book shop.
Still trying to decide which subjects I should study. Planning on going to the career advice centre (wildly invented a term there for what we call "Berufsberatung" in German) this week or next week. Probably next week.
I'm almost done with reading the parts of the Odyssey I have to read for my upcoming exam. It seems to be a book mainly about humans doing what they're told to do by the Gods, and eating lots of meat and drinking "the sweet wine". As if wine is sweet. I am slightly confused by that. But as far as "school books" go, I am actually rather enjoying it.
I set myself the goal of reading 30 books until the end of the year. Which should be managable. I am currently in the process of reading three books, two of them were recommended to me, the third one is the sequel to a YA novel I have previously read. I have to say that I forgot most of what happened in the first book, but I remember that I practically devoured it, so it must have been good.
I am just procrastinating here. I realize that I haven't actually got anything interesting to say today.
"Even if you can't see the light of day doesn't mean it's not bright outside." That's a line I intend to make into the chorus of a song. It just popped into my head while working the other day. I work in a place with absolutely no daylight, and every time I come out of the building in the evening I am slightly surprised that the sky is still there. Also, sometimes, I go in and the sun is shining, and eight hours later I come out and there's a whole lot of apocalyptic rain.
...yeah, I really wanted to use the word "apocalyptic" in this post. Is it weird that "apocalyptic" reminds me of "eucalyptus"?
Still trying to decide which subjects I should study. Planning on going to the career advice centre (wildly invented a term there for what we call "Berufsberatung" in German) this week or next week. Probably next week.
I'm almost done with reading the parts of the Odyssey I have to read for my upcoming exam. It seems to be a book mainly about humans doing what they're told to do by the Gods, and eating lots of meat and drinking "the sweet wine". As if wine is sweet. I am slightly confused by that. But as far as "school books" go, I am actually rather enjoying it.
I set myself the goal of reading 30 books until the end of the year. Which should be managable. I am currently in the process of reading three books, two of them were recommended to me, the third one is the sequel to a YA novel I have previously read. I have to say that I forgot most of what happened in the first book, but I remember that I practically devoured it, so it must have been good.
I am just procrastinating here. I realize that I haven't actually got anything interesting to say today.
"Even if you can't see the light of day doesn't mean it's not bright outside." That's a line I intend to make into the chorus of a song. It just popped into my head while working the other day. I work in a place with absolutely no daylight, and every time I come out of the building in the evening I am slightly surprised that the sky is still there. Also, sometimes, I go in and the sun is shining, and eight hours later I come out and there's a whole lot of apocalyptic rain.
...yeah, I really wanted to use the word "apocalyptic" in this post. Is it weird that "apocalyptic" reminds me of "eucalyptus"?
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