Vacation is hard work. Today was the first day of my vacation, so naturally I was at work finishing some unfinished business. This evening, however, I will escape from the city and spend a few days in Western Estonia, including Haapsalu and Saaremaa.
I will be back in Tallinn again for the Thrusday evening Estonian pre-premiere of the Dark Knight. Friday will be full of things to do and then I will have again some breathing room next weekend. I try to spend as little time in Tallinn, partly also due to the fact that my new home lacks for the moment some essential things like kitchen, curtains, bed and a clothes closet.
This summer has been full of work until now and now I am also moving to a new apartment, which means a lot of hassle, inconvenience etc. Hopefully it will be worth the trouble.
If anyone is interested, I am renting my old studio apartment (30m2) in the city centre (Jõe 7, Tallinn; 6th floor) for ca 5000 EEK / 320 EUR per month + quite small (less than 1000 EEK per month) communal costs. The apartment is going to be fully re-furbished and re-furnished (with the help of a professional interior designer) and available hopefully from mid-August. It is small, it is in a big building with a lot of other people, but it has a fantastic location (near the port, next to the World Trade Center Tallinn).
Today was a day off from work, and it was remarkable in that it was quite eventless, so that it can actually be condensed into a paragraph: I woke up at 9am, surfed the internet, had a nap at noon, woke up again at 2pm, made myself some dumplings (Pelmeenid tilliga), ate them and started cleaning my drawers and the room. By 7pm, I had done most of the cleaning, left on the robotic vacuum cleaner, took the laundry out to be washed and had a Nizza salad at Vapiano, then went back home and now I am watching TV.
Yesterday, was a more eventful day, I saw Franz Ferdinand at Õllesummer and did some other stuff.
So today I decided to sunbathe a little bit while reading some thesises I am supposed to review. I lost track of time and therefore am now red and aching all over my body. I am also mildly dizzy and should probably go to sleep.
The lesson of the day: do not sunbathe around noon and do not stay in the sun for too long. High exposure to UV-radiation is the leading cause of skin cancer.
2008 will be a big year for me, as long as I keep cool and stick to plans.
On a personal development level, I will get my MA (finally), I will learn to drive a car, I will go to France in the summer to study French. In work level I have to say I have never been so excited as I am today. In all fronts where I see myself active, I see that rapid development and changes will take place. And I am so excited about all of it (and slightly scared).
Some things I have to say goodbye to, this year I will leave TEN and EYP. I am already 26 years old and sadly these organisations do not offer much for me anymore and I am starting to feel I am unable to offer much more to them as well.
I secretly hope for better times in personal relationships, and I try to be more active pursuing those.
Sometimes it happens that you think that something incredibly good is starting to happen in your life. I for example obsess and overthink about it way too much, and in the end I get hurt when things do not happen the way I had constructed in my head. But there is no other way: should one seize to hope, dream, fantasise? No, never.
Sure, it hurts when you find out that the moments of happiness were not a beginning, but that was it. However, those moments of happiness were there and nobody can take them away from me. And I am happy about having had them.
Relationships between human-beings are complicated things, far more difficult to grasp than anything else I have ever learned. Yet in the end they are so simple: whether two people have feelings for each other or not.
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