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Jan. 31st, 2020 06:34 pm
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Tarot Spread: Singing Over the Bones

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1. You: Your present state.

2. Find the Bones: what have you lost/let die?

3. Assemble the Bones: Why did you let it die?

4 & 5: The Song: How to bring it back to life.

6. The Spirit: What will this bring to or bring back to your life?

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Jan. 31st, 2020 06:10 pm
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So... It took time to even find the new post button.

I've restored from draft something I wrote here before, in November, and it feels like a different person wrote this, maybe not 100% different but... a bit.
Most of the time I felt that this site was more of a temporary home for my thoughts, but now I don't have another.
Saying goodbye to my old diary was so much sadder than I thought, I've been feeling slight pangs of sorrow inside my chest for two days already, and I don't want them to stop. It was my life, after all. Years of it.
Here we go again...[:heart:]

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It’s much more important to write than to be written about (Marquez)

Whenever I feel uneasy about my writing, I think:
What would be the response of the people in the book if they read the book?
That’s my way of staying on track. Those are the people for whom I write. (Toni Morrison)
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Nah, I’m officially giving up on trying to write something coherent.
Not until I’m done with the laundry and all the ironing.

Nothing new here. I’ve spent a blissful two weeks in a place as close to wilderness as it gets, where all the houses are made of wood and the electricity goes down if too many people try to boil tea or cook food or watch tv simultaneously. Where is no network coverage and small fox pups try to ravage your trash bin at 4 am. And you have to walk 3 miles to the closest shop, while golden eagles pay absolutely no attention to you, but cloudberry conveniently grows in the nearby swamp just around the corner. Although it’s a bit early for cloudberries, so I’ve had my fill of blueberries and wild forest strawberries instead.
I don't have a lot of pics, but that's the only road to the neighboring village:
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Now, back to civilization, I feel a bit numb and artificial too. And a huge textbook on linear algebra awaits me while I’m still unsure whether I’m capable of understanding and learning at least half of the topics.
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Achievement unlocked - I fell asleep while talking on the phone with my mom. It happened closer to the end of her telling me how to make fireweed tea and I immediately woke up, but anyway.
How is it even possible to do nothing on holidays and to be so tired.

I feel... Out of place.
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My main mistake is that I’m still trying to do all at once. Firstly, because this “starting a new life from Monday” doesn’t work much. Secondly, because adopting any new habit is hard and takes time and repetition. Changing the whole routine is close to impossible, but when I’m in a motivated state of mind I’m still picturing how I’m doing it in one go. Trying to slow down works, but not much.
My June’s schedule, filled only with things I terribly want to do, looks like a busy unsatisfying hell already.
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Yay! Summer holidays, starting from tomorrow.
I don't even want to plan anything, bought "A Plague Tale" on Steam and two bottles of soda with good old sugar (sorry, aspartame!) and two cans of wafer rolls with milk chocolate.
Well, I'll go for a run anyway tomorrow. Let's pretend no one noticed all these extra calories.
And I've dyed my hair blue, not sky blue but denim blue.
I guess the older you get, the less freedom you feel anyway. It's not like I could have spent all three months like that, someone has to do the cooking and pay the bills. Yikes!
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I just don’t know what to talk about with my mom anymore. She seems like a kid sometimes, watching stupid TV-shows and then retelling me all the cheap pieces of advice. For example, you should eat more parsley (or some other poor veggie proclaimed the new superfood for this month) because it contains a lot of antioxidants or such and such vitamins.
Speaking about a healthy lifestyle. At least I’ve had an ecg and an echo last week and got a green light for running, but the weather is… Well, you can’t really expect much from the city with 62 sunny days per year on average.

My quest on touch typing goes like this – I’m already pretty confident with most of the keys and I definitely see the difference in amount of attention involved in finger movement - muscle memory starts to take control most of the times. It feels super cool, but frustrating, because that’s where mistakes creep in.
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This is absolutely stupid, but I feel like crying and eating a box of chocolates all alone, while Requiem for a Dream soundtrack is playing somewhere in the distance.

Me and my best friend were exchanging handwritten letters since 12, I guess. Usually on special occasions like New Year's Day or Birthdays or Halloween (yep, it is a very special occasion!) we would give to each other a plump envelope filled with random thoughts, stories and all the stuff two teen girls share with each other when they feel that the rest of the world is against them.
I have to admit, I always was the one who wrote more, she sometimes was the one who wrote nothing, but that bond was mostly undamaged until now.
For me writing about my feelings comes easy, this is what I do - I write all the time, just not the things I need to.) For her - not so much. I have my own struggles, but she is much busier and has literally zero free time. I've made my own sacrifices to have it, but it was my choice, etc.

Ff to now - yesterday I told her that while decluttering I've found several more letters (mostly quick notes now, tbh) and she jokingly replied that she haven't yet read a previous batch. And I've just scribbled another letter, lol. First one since February, two sides of an A6 notebook, so it's not like I'm drowning her in correspondence and am solely responsible for the deforestation of Brazilian rainforests.

Well, at least she remembers not reading them.

It's even funny how such a small thing can hurt so much.
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"Homo Deus" is a good book, but I'm on 200+ page and the author is still repeating and revisiting the same topics from his first book "Sapiens". I'm not disappointed, I'm in awe!
How do you even write all that stuff like... again? Digging for new material, fishing for examples... I mean, once I wrote a HP fanfic approximately that long. In no way I'll be able to write a similar story (plot, pairing, etc.) once again with the same passion and attitude.
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Quickly glanced at the journal style settings - nah, that's beyond my understanding.
Maybe someday.
I've used this greenish gray preset for two years, maybe we were meant for each other.

During the last two weeks I had to take a pill once a day early in the morning on an empty stomach, another one twice - in the morning and in the evening 20 min before eating, and yet another one three times a day with food. At least I'm done with the last one.
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+8 and raining today. I think I'll just stay inside. ^^
"Homo Deus" and a new jigsaw puzzle for the rescue!
jigsaw-puzzle

And in between I'll sort some more stuff. I'm mostly done with clothes and books - and I've managed to find good owners for almost all of them, even for the Arabic textbooks, and recycle the rest.
Only one or two boxes left. Decluttering does feel good. But it seems like a way to avoid doing some more important stuff. Ah well. Better this than nothing.
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I'll just make an effort and stay here. If no one reads it - the better.

Since my holidays have mostly started, I've decided to sort through my things and to give away some of my stuff for free. Most of my clothes are too small for me anyway - to put them on comfortably I'll need to weigh 10 lbs less. And I'm starting to doubt whether it's happening at all.
Okay, I've just tried to press the dot symbol and failed three times, enough for today.)

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May. 20th, 2019 07:20 am
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Well, I got up at six fifty and my fitbit says I've had somewhere around four and a half hours of sleep but it's ok I guess. I feel surprisingly okay for now. But definitelly a bit tired inside.
Sometimes it just feels I'm wasting my time on explaining simple things to another person in a hope that she will change and this just doesn't work (and it should not!).
It's like every time you want another person to act and think more reasonably you'd better go try it yourself.

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May. 19th, 2019 08:14 am
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Sundays mostly feel lonely, although I do not know why.
I have so many plans for the summer!
But they are mostly to learn something new, dem plans. Like learning to touch type. And to finally read all the books. And to do yoga regularly. And... This one feels like a faliure already.)
And I guess I'll stop here. With my current fifteen words per minute it takes a lot of time.)

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Apr. 24th, 2019 11:10 am
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Look who's back!

A whole lotta things happened, but I'm not going to elaborate. Firstly, because not all of it is worth remembering. And secondly, I'm planning to just notice this feeling of 'oh you need to be proper and absolutely HAVE to redeem yourself by writing a long structured paper on what exactly happened that kept you from updating your blog' for just a little longer and then crumple it and put into my mental trash bin.

What I'm thinking now is... Should I just make an effort and read Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow"? I find his ideas intriguing but I've read a lot of his articles and watched a lot of talks, so it all comes down to how much of the book will contain something that is new to me.

But this TED is spot on. So maybe I just should anyway.

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Dec. 19th, 2018 10:05 am
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You can, because if you can't, you'll die, and while it is an option and also an inbuilt human feature(at least up until the point when we become amortal), later in this case is better.

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Dec. 17th, 2018 12:40 pm
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Everything is just so fine, and then it's not, and then it's fine again, and then it's not.
And when it is not, you just need to learn how to deal with it. It's the same learning as when you learn to fall safely. Tuck your chin, try to roll out of the impact, try to stay loose... Relax, take a deep breath, eat a candy, clean your room. And don't make it worse by drowning yourself in self-loathing, so when the storm is over, you can pick things up right where you left them and continue on again.

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Nov. 25th, 2018 01:58 pm
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Okay, so remembering that you have a blog that needs updating is HARD or at least much harder than I thought.

Good news: I'm finally studying as much as I should. In just three weeks I've managed to move from the 'this homework assignment was due last month, kid' to the 'yep, I really have a chance to make it in time'.

And last.fm's robots.txt is hilarious:
Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self

Bad news:
I have a celebrity crush. >.< Hope it ends soon. Having some weak creativity pangs because of that feels awesome, but no, not really, nope, I don't need any drama in my life now, please.
Ah well.

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