Bullet Point Update

• Had a wonderful birthday! Thank you so, so much! And a big thank you to everyone who congratulated me here, too! I felt more comfortable with this birthday than with many others that came before - which might be because it was on a sunday. XD
• University job #1 is in its final throes, which is a lot of stress - especially when computers don't cooperate.
• Started to rise a little earlier every morning to do some writing "before the mind is polluted by other people's words". I always thought that was something I could never do, but it really, really works! One page a day is not bad in such busy times, and it's exactly enough to hit the ground running the next morning.
• I receive advent calender cards this December, and although I've been writing them for some years now, I never quite understood why it's so much fun to get them. I just love it!
• Had some epiphanies regarding me and creative work. For example, I tend to make things harder than they have to be. I've been trying to start an official, CV-able, public blog for a while now, and I've never written anything for it. Why? Because I thought it had to be a "serious, professional blog entry", whatever that was supposed to be. Then I watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, and not only did he teach me something about how to handle adversaries (don't see them as enemies, always see them as human beings and potential allies), he also brought his points across via telling the stories of individual people. So I know my greatest strength is storytelling. Why not make *that* into blog posts? It's just so typical that this even was an epiphany for me. Honestly, talk about creating your own redundant problems. :D
• I'm short on time for everything, of course. I would like to build up my Courchsurfing profile, because as E. suggested, it actually is the perfect place to meet free thinkers - especially in a city I know nobody in, like, uh, London.
• My morning routine is such an energy fount! Just focussing on your long term goals, your short term building sites and then internalising the good feelings you want to attract into your life more - it kills off every Resistance there could be and pushes you into relaxed activity.
• TL;DR: I'm tired all the time. Life is good.