djjd62 wrote:the worst part for me is, i still feel like i did when i was in high school, i still get excited by new music, the latest video game, i have less and less in common with my adult contemperaries, i don't want a mortgage, wife, kids, rrsp, car, cottage, boat none of that crap
i want a psp, a great collection of japanese horror flicks, more comic books
NOOooo kidding. Tell me about it. All these people around me, theyve gotten into talking about work even after work - I was with my friend in the cafe the other night, the friend I go out to play Go with, in another pub, and I was complaining - cause they were gonna renovate that place you see, some other guy bought it, I'm terrified he made it all trendy and loungy, havent gone back yet - so anyway, the last night the place was open there everyone was, talking to each other about where they would go now if it turned out they wouldnt be welcome here anymore afterwards - so, i was telling my friend about that, told him about how, later the same week when i had to be in the neighbourhood, i tried the new arthouse across the road instead, they got a cafe, and it was awful, im telling you. Here there was a person talking to an understanding woman about someone he had had to "let go", there they were talking about project applications, two snobs in the corner were "you knowing" about how (not) to shoot a movie. God. It was then i realised that the time i always get to my normal cafe, is about noon - which, in this cafe, meant lunch people from the office. <bares teeth>. So, i'm telling my friend about this whole experience, right, i said, and there were all these people talking about, god,
management or something - and he was: oh, like we were now? <stunned> And goddammit it had been truue, we'd met out of work, i'd told him everything about the logo we had had designed and all the troubles that came with it, discussing options in photoshop, and then he'd talked about his job search and, having once been a technical man at the broadcasters but recently (shortly befor eeveryone got sacked) done this retraining into a manager, he had applied for this middle-management job at a library, and so we'd talked about how best to manage a library's public outreach and stuff - fuk if it wasnt true. Thats what wed done, for like an hour up to that! Where can i still find some folks who just wanna talk - i dunno, music? something? Bullshit?
Thats something i'm worried about re: budapest, actually - its a well-known (reputed) org, so people who've come to work there will (i'm guessing) by rule be the ambitious type - plus, theres the whole expat bubble you get stuck in - with all these other office people from aborad talking, i dunno, management ... yeah. I gotta find myself something practical to do there. Here i can do handiwork for my party the odd time, but no point getting into their politics when i get there ... perhaps some volunteer work ... or i just gotta learn hungarian soon and find some locals to hang out with or something. Or go photographing, trekkinbg round town with my camera, that would be cool.
kickycan wrote:unfortunately I have the attention span and discipline of a three-month old spider monkey
, i know what your saying, i'm a big fan but not in a trekkie kinda way, i have suggested that people read the books, and if i meet a fellow fan i'll engage in conversation about the books, but i try to keep things in perspective
