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Dec. 4th, 2018 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickentimeschickenwaysRearranging my guts a bit after news of Tumblr's imminent implosion. It was the first social media I really made friends on, starting in 2010, and I learned an awful lot about how to be a person on the internet there. Trash? Why, yes, of course, but it was my trash, and it saw me through eight rather tumultuous years. My twenties were not smooth sailing, I fear.
I am currently in an ongoing wrestling match with myself to be more outward-looking, or at least a bit more plugged into reality. I've never *not* ruminated, of course -- what good are first thoughts without second and third ones? -- but at the moment I have no savings and am careening from one paycheck to the next, so the consequences of a doom spiral seem somewhat more dire than usual. Which is to say: I am hoping that I can avoid the pitfalls of my erstwhile Tumblr here, and all those sorts of entries where I navel-gazed and self-loathed with the very best of them.
And, well: I moved 1400 miles from home, at great inconvenience and expense to myself, in hopes of finding a place that felt less like a straitjacket. It seems I should at least *try* to create the conditions for myself to thrive.
Trying to get a trip planned to Ireland for a week and change (not sure how much change) for August 2019. The details are not very exciting; ideally, I'd like to hit up Worldcon for a day or two, meet a forum friend in Dublin, shoot across to Galway to visit Ye Olde WWOOF Farm, and do a couple of day hikes, probably also in Galway.
I don't know how getting time off will be (technically I don't have vacation until August 20th), and I don't know how the money will be (right now tickets for the right bracket are $600, meh.) Right now I'm having a hard time being excited about anything, if we're honest, but I suspect by the time the winter is over things will have eased up in my small subterranean haven of grumpiness.
I am currently in an ongoing wrestling match with myself to be more outward-looking, or at least a bit more plugged into reality. I've never *not* ruminated, of course -- what good are first thoughts without second and third ones? -- but at the moment I have no savings and am careening from one paycheck to the next, so the consequences of a doom spiral seem somewhat more dire than usual. Which is to say: I am hoping that I can avoid the pitfalls of my erstwhile Tumblr here, and all those sorts of entries where I navel-gazed and self-loathed with the very best of them.
And, well: I moved 1400 miles from home, at great inconvenience and expense to myself, in hopes of finding a place that felt less like a straitjacket. It seems I should at least *try* to create the conditions for myself to thrive.
Trying to get a trip planned to Ireland for a week and change (not sure how much change) for August 2019. The details are not very exciting; ideally, I'd like to hit up Worldcon for a day or two, meet a forum friend in Dublin, shoot across to Galway to visit Ye Olde WWOOF Farm, and do a couple of day hikes, probably also in Galway.
I don't know how getting time off will be (technically I don't have vacation until August 20th), and I don't know how the money will be (right now tickets for the right bracket are $600, meh.) Right now I'm having a hard time being excited about anything, if we're honest, but I suspect by the time the winter is over things will have eased up in my small subterranean haven of grumpiness.
