2011 is upon us: what are you doing?

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Postby Xard » Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:57 pm

2011 version of this thread that died as year changed (I guess it's not bad idea to have one for each year or something to stop threads from growing too long)

So, what are you up to this year my fellow geeks? Spring is finally here! Are things looking up? Did you perhaps break your arm and were touched by gay medic? Moved to other side of the continent? Find meaning of life or breakup with your significant other [s]or dakimakura[/s]? Get a lucrative job? Travel around the world? Start a new hobby?

Whatever it is, this thread exists for it! :w00t:



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and to mimic Reichu's lenghty opening post here's lenghty personal answer to question:

As for me, my physical condition is certainly getting better. After humiliating and depressing end to my gloriously boring and shitty army "career" I spent most of 2010 working but was forced to quit as again worsening condition of my feet got so bad I couldn't even get shoes on (not to mention that inward growing nail that had digged its way through flesh of my toe and eventually came through the middle of my big toe, ouchhhhhh). Which led to the way I've spent most of 2011 as hikikomori (I get compensations for inability to work till 17th of April as far as I can tell) and underwent three small surgical operations in January, February and March. (so yes, reason you've been stuck with me even more than normally is medical :lol:) Well, now I'm past the worst. :)

My physical constitution is pretty much gone though so I really need to start exercising again next week...

yeah, I guess that's good enough summary of 2011 for me so far.

As for for now and from now on... well, this spring should be one of the most important and decisive periods in my whole life. No more or less :ehh:

The deadline for university and other applications looms in the horizon on 12th April. In other words: I'm running out of time to just drift onwards which has been my modus operandi in life for at least last four years.

Even I am a bit stressed over this, and I sleepwalked through secondary school, most of upper secondary school and matriculation examination! (with pretty good results with best matriculation examination out of boys and 5th best overall, and I underperformed in comparison to preliminaries so... :sneak: haters gonna hate :sneak: ) :sweatdrop:

Last year I didn't take university applications and reading to entrance tests seriously because I was just testing the process, I had no intentions of studying seriously before (reason being "all the studying" for matriculation examination...which I barely did anyway -o-; ) finishing my military service anyway...

I thought I would figure out what I'm going to do during past year but that was godawfully naive of me. :(

Since gradually abandonding the three semi-dreams I had (psychology, philosophy, filmmaking) during last two years I've been stuck in aimlessness worse than ever before. Dream to become movie director or something held out longest but now I just can't summon the will to even start working on the test works I'd need to send to Aalto by 12th day.

As cynical, pessimistic and downright nihilistic about the value of it all I already was year ago at least then I still had the needed kick and belief in the artform to do the damn works - only reason I was unable to finish last one and send them was due to Oz skipping the only day I had left for final short film and I needed actor...I guess I misunderstood him or something but I thought he had promised to come. Oh well, not like it matters anymore. :shrug:

Now I just don't have any belief in this either. Philosophy I abandonded already a year ago, psychology nearly two years ago. So the options I were interested in after starting upp. sec. school are essentially dead to me.

Same lack of caring or motivation plagues me in general. None of the options feel worth it and all lead to same depressive end: turning into a cog into society's machine (well, even moreso than now), a society that is fundamentally destructive, amoral and not worth maintaining (and yet there's no other better option. Sweeeet). And only ways to reject that end would be suicide or to turn into some sort of Zen hermit and live in wilderness... former is morally inexcusable whereas for latter I don't have the personality or strenght for. >_<

and what does it say about my ability to prioritize stuff that I care way more about avoiding spoilers of MF film than any of this... gahhhhhhh :dejected:

Nonetheless I NEED TO DO SOMETHING and get the fuck out of this rat hole I've been stuck in, maybe get out of the whole country (then again, my dependence on regular sauna visits means I wouldn't survive elsewhere...) in the long run. I can't stay here and hopefully I can move to Helsinki or Turku or something by next summer. :ehh:

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But enough about me, I guess.

What are YOU doing? :)

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Postby Stryker » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:03 pm

I'm sitting on my shredded bum. How about you?
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Postby C.A.P. » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:15 pm

So far, I'm doing MUCH better in High School than I did last year. Right now my GPA is somewhere around 3.7 (First Honors!) compared to last year (I think it was somewhere in the upper 2s or lower 3s), so I'm happy about that. Also had a grand time in New York last week, despite on how hectic the scheduling was. Least I know what to do when I head up to NYC again though.

But right now, I got nothing extraordinary to report personally. Year's going to wrap up in a month and a few weeks from now, so homework might get silly-willy in the future, I got a role to take care of for my High School (Andrew Carnes is the name), and there's plans to start getting my permit sometime this Summer. Life is just nice and simple for me; can't complain really...for now.
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Postby toe mash » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:33 pm

Looks like someone needs to do some NGE re-watchan'... :nod:

I hope you do find something to be passionate about Xard, apathy rarely yields good results... too bad no one is hiring any professional anime watchers, eh? Maybe something will re-ignite your old interests.

So far in 2011 I took our version of the SAT (decent score, about top 15% although I was aiming for higher..), and had a few ordeals with the army. And had the fortune to watch one of the best anime I've watched as it was airing, and probably the best series I've watched as it was actually airing.

I think it'd be cool if people commented what happened since the 2010 thread, as in how what they wrote there turned out. :)

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Postby NemZ » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:44 pm

Maybe I'll finally finish up some of the random side projects I've got laying around this year, but far more likely I'll just add a few more that will sit in my hard drive half finished until the stars burn out as proof that slackers existed.
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Postby Ornette » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:45 pm

Same thing I've been doing for the last 13 or so years. Run my small software company, run my small local ISP, work on the projects I find interesting, pay the bills and taxes, work from home and make my own hours, take my annual 2-3 week international vacation at some point this year (thinking about visiting my friend's family in Turkey and catching the F1 race, unless Eva 3.0 gets a premiere date), help run [s]drinking con[/s] Summercon this year, play video games and watch 10-15 episodes of anime a day, eat some good food and get drunk, maybe fall down my stairs some more, I think that's about it.

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Postby BrikHaus » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:57 pm

View Original PostStryker wrote:I'm sitting on my shredded bum. How about you?

Who shredded it and with what? Cheese grater?
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Postby MugwumpHasNoLiver » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:00 pm

I've mentioned all of this before, but I'm acting in an independent feature length film, that I wrote with a friend. I'm also going to write a novel based off said film, and work on it, in conjunction with the EGF novel, which I hope to make significant progress on this year. It's not so much going to be a novelization, so much as a radically different take on the same story and characters. It's far less ambitious than the EGF novel, but no less deserving of my attention.

I'd also like to drop about 50lbs this year, and get a job, while I'm at it. My goals for next year, are to get back in college, and get laid, because I have a bunch of condoms that have been sitting in my drawer since I was fifteen, and they're going to expire soon.

Otherwise I'll be around.
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Postby symbv » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:32 pm

View Original PostXard wrote: As for me, my physical condition is certainly getting better....Well, now I'm past the worst. :)

My physical constitution is pretty much gone though so I really need to start exercising again next week...


No decision about coming to Japan made I guess? I am still betting that you are not coming

View Original PostXard wrote: Since gradually abandonding the three semi-dreams I had (psychology, philosophy, filmmaking) during last two years I've been stuck in aimlessness worse than ever before. Dream to become movie director or something held out longest but now I just can't summon the will to even start working on the test works I'd need to send to Aalto by 12th day.


OK, so this is your progress so far... Do you have any plan B?

I wonder what dreams you held for Psychology and Philosophy though?

View Original PostXard wrote: Same lack of caring or motivation plagues me in general. None of the options feel worth it and all lead to same depressive end: turning into a cog into society's machine (well, even moreso than now), a society that is fundamentally destructive, amoral and not worth maintaining (and yet there's no other better option. Sweeeet). And only ways to reject that end would be suicide or to turn into some sort of Zen hermit and live in wilderness... former is morally inexcusable whereas for latter I don't have the personality or strenght for. >_<


You must banish those thoughts about being a cog or that the society is not worth participation unless you really and seriously want to disappear from this world, go into hikikomori or seclusion, or become a perpetual drifter living underground, and I think you knew it. Some people may disagree with me, but I do believe the path taken after high school graduation has a significant impact on the subsequent life. I did not think too much about that when I was your age but as I told you before the two years before college happened to be the years I studied the hardest, and somehow it turned out well for me and it also shaped my life until this day. Of course not everyone has the same story to tell and I am sure many would testify to different lesson, but to me I believe a determination to make life work for you, some decent but achievable objectives and a will to strive through the obstacles are what you should consider having at your stage. I wish I could be told as such when I was your age (which would make all my hard work a lot more meaningful to me then). Besides, I am sure you are more intelligent than I was then, so I strongly believe you can step up and achieve success -- just don't let your cynicism+nihilism become your excuse of avoiding taking the effort to face up the issues....

And as I said before, I advise you to look beyond those "dreams" you have been harboring, take a look at your ability and potential, and set some goal. One advantage for you is youth -- time is still in favor of you and you can always plan and work from scratch again for the next year if things really do not work as planned. As it seems to me that you have some potential on languages, pursuing a path on Japanese language may be one thing you can consider. That can open up quite a lot of opportunities if you are fluent in Finnish, English and Japanese...

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As for me, Xard knew it all along but I am packing up my things and I will leave this lovely country and city named Japan and Tokyo which has been my place of adobe for the last 14 years. It has been planned from the beginning of this year (which explains why I can post so often recently) so it has nothing to do with the recent quake though the quake does cause change in my schedule. Anyway, thinking of the looming departure always causes me to go very sad. I even got a dream that I was Azunyan listening to the greatest sayonara song ever. Not that I am haughty enough to think I am a tenshi and some cute girls are going to sing me this song, but the mood just fits my feeling so well and I will play this song to myself when I step away from this land and board the departing plane. :boohoo: I will spend time with my parents back in my home town and then look around for job, hopefully of a different kind that I have worked before.
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Postby LoCooLaidman » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:56 pm

Waiting for everything... including: Rebuild 3.0, Gears of War 3, Zone Of the Enders 3... good things come in three(s)I guess...

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Postby C.A.P. » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:32 pm

View Original Postsymbv wrote:As for me, Xard knew it all along but I am packing up my things and I will leave this lovely country and city named Japan and Tokyo which has been my place of adobe for the last 14 years. It has been planned from the beginning of this year (which explains why I can post so often recently) so it has nothing to do with the recent quake though the quake does cause change in my schedule. Anyway, thinking of the looming departure always causes me to go very sad. I even got a dream that I was Azunyan listening to the greatest sayonara song ever. Not that I am haughty enough to think I am a tenshi and some cute girls are going to sing me this song, but the mood just fits my feeling so well and I will play this song to myself when I step away from this land and board the departing plane. :boohoo: I will spend time with my parents back in my home town and then look around for job, hopefully of a different kind that I have worked before.


I wish nothing but the best symbv. Good luck! :thumbsup:
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Postby Sachi » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:57 pm

I'm graduating high school in two months, then I'm off to a fabulous university, so I get to look forward to a huge transition and culture shock over the course of the next few months and I couldn't be more excited.
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Postby Omegagouki » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:34 pm

Ah, what have I been doing while I've been away from the forums (really, I don't think I've been active since sometime in 2010 lol)/in 2011? Let's see.

I get my disability money every first of the month and proceed to pay my share of the rent, the cable and internet bill, and the one payday loan I have and then mostly use the rest of the money to buy food, crap I don't need, games, or clothes. I take all my meds (well, okay, one, my seizure preventation stuff) like I'm supposed to (usually).

Internet-wise, I've mostly been hanging out at a Touhou fandom forum, which is the main reason I've been neglecting EGF, and patrolling on their IRC channel, making some nice new acquaintances, etc. Other than that I spend most of my time on AIM (mainly with the RP group that I've been with for quite some time, sadly it's been dying a bit recently), check my Twitter when I'm not neglecting it, ero-roleplay on LJ, read my webcomics (which these days is almost solely Homestuck).

I play video games a bit, watch TV, occasionally watch anime (Panty & Stocking, fuck yeah!). I plan on getting Rebuild 2 soon enough, I think I'll watch the first again sometime soon beforehand, perhaps rewatch the original series too. Yeah, I still love Eva even though it seems my fandom is mostly Touhou, Touhou, Touhou these days. :P

So, yeah, that's it pretty much. Living the NEET life.
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Postby Oz » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:43 pm

My work practice at the local library ended on Thursday (although I still have one extra day next Tuesday), but for now I'll be studying for the university entrance exam (translating between English and Finnish) which I will take on the first days of June. I'm not planning to work while doing that, to ensure that this time I will read enough for it. BUT my civil service isn't done yet so I won't begin studying in a university next fall even if I get in - I will have to move it to next year in any case. My civil service at the same library will begin on the 12th of July (and the "training" for it begins on the 20th of June).
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Postby Azathoth » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:55 pm

Staying inside except for food and workout, failing to get a job, never talking to anyone except my dealer, writing shit that I will never be able to sell because it makes me feel better, playing for fifty in-game years in FM2011 before FM2012 comes out, and trying to get my degree so I can fail at getting a career instead.

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Postby Trajan » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:08 pm

1) Get a job.
2) Get a car.
3) Stay in top eight percent of grad. class.
4) Apply to colleges.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:48 pm

Still getting adjusted to being back home (moved back in December) after being away for 7 years, but it's nice to be home and have my sanity back. (Away from those control freaks, thank God.)

Keeping myself busy with personal projects and going to places with family. Hoping to exercise properly (taking walks outside) once the weather gets nice here. (There's still some snow and it's April...Gah!)

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Postby Tokpile Quohog » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:58 pm

Symbv said a lot of good things for you young'uns. But this in particular is very important.


I'm moving up to Seattle in the fall to start a phd program and I also promised someone that I am going to work on and release a comic soon after.

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Postby planet news » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:58 pm

View Original PostXard wrote:Philosophy I abandonded already a year ago, psychology nearly two years ago. So the options I were interested in after starting upp. sec. school are essentially dead to me.
I suppose the question is... WHY? I mean, I have no idea how much you read, but less than 20 years is really not enough to have read, well, hardly anything. I don't see how this is something that can be abandoned so quickly. I have the feeling you are dismissing a lot of the good stuff out there out of unwarranted prejudice. I'm only saying this, because nowadays I am pretty open to just about any school thought and there is so much to know it's ridiculous.

Note: I'm reading your paragraph in the sense that you are no longer interested in philosophy (amirite?)
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Postby Merridian » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:07 am

^He's referring to any kind of career in philosophy on the academic level.


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