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Focus, long-term

Today I got healthy, had a small flu of four days. So I've basically done nothing. Of course it's all relative. I have managed to get addicted to Pasila, a Finnish "mature" cartoon series which has been compared to South Park. Except it's about policemen and things take place in, well, Helsinki, Finland. I have  also fought with something in Ubuntu that's slowing the PC down to a crawl every once in a while, and tried to do some school stuff. This Spring I have been on the last Swedish course I'll probably ever have to go to. 

I started a private diary today. (Sure, I've written diary-like random things before, but this is to create some kind of discipline and regularity into it.) I'm not very good at keeping a diary, since it demotivates me that I'm not really writing to anyone. Anyway, I thought it might help me to learn persistence/perseverence — to see phenomena and my behaviour in longer term so that I could better learn from it and avoid making the same mistakes again and again. The problem is, I probably won't be interested in reading my old writings afterwards. Alas, I'll either have to read my old thoughts anyway, or I'll need to learn to write in an interesting fashion :).

Perhaps, just perhaps I will manage to make room (spatial, timely, mental) to finally have some kind of a house-warming party in May. I'll move out at the end of August, though. If you know a nice flat near Tampere center (Kaleva-Nekala-Tammela-center-Amuri or perhaps even further away) I could move into on the 1^st of September in 2007, tell me please :).

Sun 2007-04-29 22:39 in diary No comments #link

Stretching of man

It's rainy in Tampere right now. I have always had a thing for rainy weather, as well as for other things associated with melancholy. Things have calmed up quite a bit since the latest entries from earlier Spring. 

I guess I'm beginning to open up to people. I feel I have learnt a lot.  I'm hopeful of learning more about encountering people and learning to be less afraid of them in the Friendship Inn, where I'm currently on a course. Though I have only been there on one weekend so far, just about everything in me says that it is just what I'm looking for at the moment. 

I've also put up ads on some pages here with a lot of traffic, and earned some money from google. In principle I don't believe in the power of money any more than practical life forces me to, but I have to admit that this is exciting somehow :).

In the beginning of June there's a trip to Taizé arranged by the Lutheran church here, so I'm finally going to see that place I've heard quite a bit about.

There are a lot of things to do on a relatively tight schedule, but still not that much pressure. Right now I'm pretty fine.
I'm sad about the factual listing nature of this writing though :).

Edit: "culture" I've consumed lately: Israel-Palestiina - kahden kansan luvattu maa; Nurkkaan ajettu Jumala; 

Thu 2007-04-19 21:06 in diary No comments #link