General update
Jan. 23rd, 2015 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzula1) Am no longer auditor for environmental youth organization. Woohoo! I no longer have to read endless amounts of documents and be annoyed at the board! I have done my bit there.
2) My plans for becoming more active in my union are proceeding well. I am now part of the welcoming committee for new members, and the other two people in that committee seem nice and easy to work with.
3) Will probably become one of the spokespeople for the environmental forest organization where I am on the board. It's not that I am eager to be in the media, more that I've been active a number of years, so that I know enough about the issues, and feel it is my duty to take a turn doing it. On the bright side, it's a change from being treasurer.
4) I made a podcast together with some other people! It's about an environmental forest issue, and it was fun to make, although I sound kind of stupid sometimes. It really is very different from recording podfic, where I have a set text to perform--I know how to do that. Also quite different from teaching, which is another kind of performance that I can do well. But I guess I'll get better at the podcasting if I keep at it.
5) Am quite possibly going to Russia to do forest inventories for a week this summer, in an exchange with a Karelian environmental organization. That would be cool, although I am a bit leery of it in light of what happened to the Greenpeace anti-oil activists. They were doing a lot more high-profile, controversial stuff, though.
6) There is a piano in our house, and I have started playing it. I used to play the piano 10-15 years ago, and I'm surprised how much I remember and how much I'm enjoying it. Am now mostly playing some Chopin and also Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
7) In other house news, Very Bad Landlord will probably sell the house (although characteristically, he isn't saying when). I am not sorry to be rid of him, but it means we have to find somewhere else to live. We're seven people in the house now; four or five of us want to find someplace new together. Ack, I hate house-hunting.
8) Still unrequitedly in love. *sigh* But there's lots of other important stuff in my life. I am mostly content with that.
2) My plans for becoming more active in my union are proceeding well. I am now part of the welcoming committee for new members, and the other two people in that committee seem nice and easy to work with.
3) Will probably become one of the spokespeople for the environmental forest organization where I am on the board. It's not that I am eager to be in the media, more that I've been active a number of years, so that I know enough about the issues, and feel it is my duty to take a turn doing it. On the bright side, it's a change from being treasurer.
4) I made a podcast together with some other people! It's about an environmental forest issue, and it was fun to make, although I sound kind of stupid sometimes. It really is very different from recording podfic, where I have a set text to perform--I know how to do that. Also quite different from teaching, which is another kind of performance that I can do well. But I guess I'll get better at the podcasting if I keep at it.
5) Am quite possibly going to Russia to do forest inventories for a week this summer, in an exchange with a Karelian environmental organization. That would be cool, although I am a bit leery of it in light of what happened to the Greenpeace anti-oil activists. They were doing a lot more high-profile, controversial stuff, though.
6) There is a piano in our house, and I have started playing it. I used to play the piano 10-15 years ago, and I'm surprised how much I remember and how much I'm enjoying it. Am now mostly playing some Chopin and also Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
7) In other house news, Very Bad Landlord will probably sell the house (although characteristically, he isn't saying when). I am not sorry to be rid of him, but it means we have to find somewhere else to live. We're seven people in the house now; four or five of us want to find someplace new together. Ack, I hate house-hunting.
8) Still unrequitedly in love. *sigh* But there's lots of other important stuff in my life. I am mostly content with that.
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Date: 2015-01-25 08:37 pm (UTC)hope it's not too painful an ordeal for you <3
Thanks. It's kind of weird, because it was not an experience I missed while I didn't have it (I hadn't been in unrequitedly in love in maybe 13 years) but now that I am experiencing it, I don't even want it to end. Sure, it's frustrating, but even so I am experiencing the feelings in themselves as something positive. So they're obviously self-reinforcing even though I get no encouragement. I guess I do get feedback from meeting my crush, though (we are friends but live in different places, so we meet maybe three times a year or so, with some email/phone contact in between). If I really wanted it to end I guess I could avoid contact with him.
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Date: 2015-01-25 08:45 pm (UTC)Yay, do invite us. Then maybe you can have the phone and .mp3-player I'm not getting around to emptying of personal data, let alone getting near a post office with :/
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Date: 2015-02-04 04:41 pm (UTC)So hey, I actually find myself in need of that mp3-player. Do you want to send them? : ) I can delete your data, no problem, so don't bother with that unless it's something really private that you want to delete yourself.