yesterday i missed a perfectly good all-day drinking party

[thene]

and when I walked from one job to the other, after the power was back on, long after I'd quit even vaguely pretending to do any actual work for the Dingbat, the streets seemed much the same as ever but with less road rage, and all the people who were out and about were happy and relaxed and glad to see each other. I had already decided that Boston was doing it wrong, because I can be a haughty Londoner when I have to be. I always go back to what that one high court judge in the UK said a few years ago, while ruling that yes, people accused of terrorism do still have legal rights; these people 'do not threaten the life of this nation.' They are not worth our abandoning the city, not even for one day. I am looking forward to seeing an estimate of the economic cost, no joke. I want someone to stand up and explain why they think it was worth every wasted cent.

I DO have today off, and tomorrow, and I have no idea what other days, both jobs being in this weird transition state. I am going to a different drinking party and am taking cake, and I already cleaned the kitchen, and I need to iron everything ever, and get studying - I feel so very industrious.

Comments

[khronos_keeper]

I envy your calm in your weird transition state. I'm sort of in one right now, and I'm internally flipping the fuck out. What is your trick? :D

[thene]

Stability. Seriously, I have tons of money, clear-ish goals for my future, a long-term monogamous relationship, a place I like living, good friends both local and far-away, and some emotional bulwarks that are not going anywhere. Nothing is actually going to wrong in my life p. much ever again; I just need to level-grind some more. It just took some absurd luck of both the bad and good varieties for me to have ended up here.

[khronos_keeper]

Yeah, I definitely have some more levels to grind before I get the stability achievement. But hey, at least that's a good umbrella term for everything to work for.

I'm also vaguely terrified at how much luck and coincidence seemingly play in establishing advantages in life. While here in NY of all places, I've found loads of Koreans who were in some way attached to where I lived in Korea, and they all want to help me out if I ever go back to Korea.

[1000kindsofrain.wordpress.com]

I, too, like the notion of "level grinding" one's life.

And, KK, you're right about the role of luck. (Kristine will slap me if I don't call it "serendipity".) Don't trust any successful person who won't admit how big a role luck played in their success because it's vanishingly rare that people achieve success through hard work alone. (I have more time for people with multiple successes because it's more likely they're onto something.) Equally, keep grinding away and opportunities will turn up; there are few people so unlucky that they never get a chance. And sometimes good luck and bad luck are one and the same thing.

[kyrias]

So I finally put your thing into a blog reader -- I wonder how this is going to affect your locked posts. :/ Also, 333million is apparently the number the economist came up with.

[thene]

eh, I've locked very few things in recent months - only one on the front page and it was only locked because it was stupid job stuff.

What would you do with $333 million? I am going to go ahead and guess that 'finding one guy' is pretty far down most people's lists.

[pennie_dreadful]

aw, well, stay safe as you can, regardless.

[thene]

<3 !