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馃憢 Whovian, metaller. Likes cats, tea, videogames, books, art, and pen and paper RPGs. Supports equal rights. She / Her.
馃實 Drifting in Space
馃棧 Followers 26 路 Following 32 路 Logs 82 路 Docked 3 years ago
I finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy yesterday. Beautiful book, very painful to read. It immediately went into my list of favourites.
馃挰 2 Replies 路 1 Thumb 路 8 months ago
The next part of my trip to Germany involves staying at my partner's family and getting some R&R. We do have a couple of potential day trips planned - including following your suggestion @bavarianbarbarian , but we'll see how we feel and what the rest of the family wants to do. I have some thoughts around me being here as a guest that don't fit here (too wordy XD ), maybe I will put them in some diary entry in my capsule.
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Morning visit to Herrenh盲user G盲rten before we embark on a long train trip back to the Frankfurt area, where the family of my partner lives. The weather has not been able to settle between scorching hot and rainy/cold-ish. Looks like we are getting a cooler morning today.
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Quick visit to the Elbphilharmonie and Alter Elbtunnel, then off to Hannover on a (greatly delayed, feels like Italy) train.
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Day 3: boat trip, naval museum, some food was had. Went on top of the Feldstra脽e Bunker. Now trying to avoid the football fans and go back to the hotel. The museum was *way* bigger than expected. Overall a great day again.
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Day 2 in Hamburg: breakfast in a cat caf茅, walked around the city a bit and walked into a triathlon competition, spent the entire day in the Kunsthalle. The William Blake temporary exhibition was amazing.
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Leaving Berlin to go to Hamburg today. it is currently raining. Hopefully it will clear up a bit as travel in dry weather is more comfortable.
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Went to Checkpoint Charlie today. I was 10 years old when the wall fell but I remember it well. I felt a really strong sense of melancholy and sadness looking at the pieces of the wall being sold: the world felt so much different back then, like I could actually feel optimistic for the future. It's a mix of innocence lost and the current political events now making me so jaded and sad.
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We walked more than 35000 steps today! The first day here was great but also really, really, really warm.
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Landed in Berlin! My train to Milano to the airport was 20 minutes late and my flight to Berlin landed 20 minutes early. Funny it all balanced out though it was basically faster for me to go from Italy to a different Country than it was to travel between cities in my Country.
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Two more days here then it is time for holidays! I am slightly anxious that I need to pack, tidy up the house and do one more full day of work, but I will manage (it's not like I have an alternative). Worst case the apartment will not be so tidy.
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I sometimes have these very clear, realistic dreams that have no relation to my actual life. One time I dreamt of an entire film, titled "The flock", starring Owen Wilson. It was a horror movie involving werewolves and some corn fields in the US. It is really funny how my brain made up a whole movie while I was asleep.
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It has been ages again. My personal life has been almost completely eaten by work. I am OK. I feel a bit better. I will be on holiday soon, which is great! I have a trip to Germany planned for my vacation and I am really looking forward to it! First stop will be Berlin, then Hamburg, then Frankfurt, maybe with another stop in between.
馃挰 4 Replies 路 1 Thumb 路 9 months ago
Hei Hei! Long time no see. I have been working really hard and barely have any time or energy for my personal projects. Also I am currently in Finland and the darkness here makes me want to sleep. I know I need to find a better work-life balance, but somewhere in 2018-19 I forgot how to. I truly am a binge-worker: my job is where I go to hide from life's problems. And with no family of my own it's just too easy for me to look at work stuff during my free time.
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I was walking home earlier and I was ramdomly stopped by a stranger, an older woman wearing a lot of makeup asking me where I bought the shirt I am wearing (which is just a plain blue shirt). I told her I am not sure as it must have at least 10 years. And she went: "Wow it looks new! You kept it so well!" then she just walked away before I could finish saying "Thank you". I guess it was nice, if not a little puzzling? I do put a lot of effort into making things last and avoiding fast fashion...
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i just had bad news. No one is in danger so in that sense it's OK. However it does hurt and I am a little scared. If I ask myself "will this matter in one year, or five years?" the answer is probably yes. But maybe I can't think objectively.
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Ah, I was supposed to take part to a charity run tomorrow (Wings for Life World Run, for spinal chord injury research), but there was a big fire at a manufacturing plant in the area and outdoors activities are now forbidden for at least one day. This is quite sad, both the cancelled event, and the consequences of the fire. At least my donation is still valid even if I don't run, so my contribution to the cause is still there.
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I am sometimes nervous about posting here: I love gemini, but I think I am in a smaller group of people here with no programming / technical knowledge, so I wonder if my updates are really just kind of boring or uninteresting for people in this space.
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March, April, May are ways very *intense* at work, my days all kind of blurring together. I have been wanting to pick up some healthy habits again, but I am often too tired. Travel back and forth from Italy to Finland is also disrupting my routine (which I need to function). While this may all sound a little negative, I am actually doing OK. Better than I was at this time last year for sure. Slowly climbing back up to a happy spot.
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I am back after a long hiatus. So much happened in the past months: I've struggled with depression and panic attacks and I was feeling very low. I know the main reason was my living situation and such. That is now fixed: I moved to an apartment which is *mine* and I am doing things to take care of myself. I am in a stable (long distance) relationship that doesn't make me anxious and that feels right. Everything is looking good for recovery: if now that I have removed all my sources of anxiety and sadness I am still not making progress, I guess that means the wound's too deep and I need therapy.
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Tough month. Thankfully it is almost over. Tough Christmas day too! Thankfully I will be going to Vienna tomorrow to see my partner and some friends; we are celebrating New Year's Eve together and then spending some time relaxing in Vienna.
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Snow and wind here in Helsinki today. It has been like this for the past 4 days. I love it (when I don't have to go outside). Not sure if my Italian genes can cope though if I have to leave the house. XD
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I can't believe it's been a month already. I should update more often! I am currently in Finland, enjoying the dark and cold I guess... Well, Finland *is* beautiful when the weather is being nice. I am happy here though. Already dreading the moment when I will have to go back.
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It's getting colder here. I really like autumn air. It reminds me of when I was a child at the end of Summer and it was time to go get new school supplies, and being excited for my first day back to school.
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I am back! I am sorry for being away for so long. I've had to travel, but also just generally pause on a lot of stuff.
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... and now I have a temperature! :( On a more positive note, watched episodes 1 to 4 of Stranger Things and I am liking it so far.
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My cold got very annoying last night, I didn't get to sleep much, so today I took a rest day (just some yoga, no exercise, long nap in the afternoon). I did paint an abstract landscape on a whim. I think it turned out nice, so I will probably revisit the concept soon.
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Half of my brain is telling me we are too tired and should sleep all day, the other half wants to pick up Esperanto and go back to learning python... Being off from work is confusing. XD
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My gemini capsule has a gemlog now and I update it usign a script I made...
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I tried running but it was too hot and I am too out of shape so I only did 10 minutes, then took a long walk. It was actually quite nice anyway. Tomorrow I'll go back to an easy training plan so I can get myself back into shape and start training seriously for the charity run in a few months.