Oh wow, it's like I totally skipped a year of blogging...however, I did not stop writing.
I had an ambitious project in my twisted head about a city, my own city like Gotham or a Neo-Tokyo to suit my image, or even a large populated town like Malgudi. Determined to make links with characters and stories, I let it marinate; the links and interplay struck more at night than in the day and I had to write it down ASAP (usually in my phone's message drafts or in my handy-dandy-notebook). Who/what was my muse? A mix of boredom, inspiration and the age-old, tried and true, propulsion of turning pain into art.
Some interesting things I found in 2012:
- erratic people are cute
- CityRail can only get slower
- looking for a full-time job is not as easy as uni made it out to be
- getting left out of big events hurts (but I stand by my choice of not having a Facebook, having sold my soul long ago to Google when I created a Gmail account and they started tracking EVERY search term I've ever typed up)
*NB big events is defined as something life-changing, not something petty like a graduation/house party/Friday night out to see a band before they break up, no, more like a book launch or an art exhibit opening...thanks guys...
- feeling inadequate is similar to the expression "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", best to get over it and move on
- being purposefully lost is a great feeling
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Oh and I went to Europe for 2 months, saw snowfall and skied for the first time, gained some muscle weight, spoke bad German confidently, and made my manager so angry at me, I now consider it a lifetime achievement to be still working in the same place as her.
I would love to go to Scandinavia, someday.
