Aisha (A Pi) ([info]nerd4live) wrote,
@ 2009-07-12 10:48:00
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Current mood: This joint right here make me
Current music:Mary J. Blige - Just Fine

Feels so good / When you're doing all the things that you want to do
It seems as though this is turning into a travel journal lately. My traveling will end soon enough :(

I went to Lisbon for the Kylie Minogue concert last weekend. It could not have come at a better time, I was massively depressed before leaving. I never used to get this depressed this often, I really think living here is getting to me. It is still COLD here even though it's the middle of July.

Anyway, I went with Claudio's cousin since Claudio didn't want to go with me. Saturday was a lot of fun, we went to the beach which was hot/cold at the same time but the water was crystal clear and went to a nearby museum before heading out to the concert. The Kylie show was amazing, and barely anyone was there so we were fairly close to the stage despite getting there right as it started :o
I wrapped myself in a gold streamer that fell from the ceiling at the end of the show, and then we accidentally went into a residential parking garage instead of the public one and got trapped! I was convinced we would have to spend the night there but we found someone who lived in the building to let us out. Haha I must have looked retarded in my gold streamer.

The shopping mall across the street was open til midnight so I finally ate something vegetarian and we saw "The Hangover" in English with Portuguese subtitles. I never see movies in theatres here because they're all dubbed into Spanish. That movie was hilarious, but I bet if I watched it again it wouldn't be that funny.

Then Sunday, just as we were about to go to a nearby castle, Edgar's car got broken into. We actually saw the guy who broke into the car/stole his GPS, but we didn't know he had broken the window or stolen anything. It was so weird. I was confused, he told us we couldn't park there but I didn't know he had been inside of his car. We spent the rest of the day going to police stations (7 in all) and then drove home with a little bit of duct tape on the window. Edgar claims the GPS was covered by his car insurance and they deposited money into his account already, but I'm starting to think he just told me this to make me feel better.

I got offered a low paying position teaching English starting mid-September. I'm not excited about it, I feel kind of blah being here. It's like I have goals and being here is preventing me from accomplishing any of them. I don't know, I need to get my shit together.




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[info]brkdowninflames
2009-07-12 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Oi! Sorry to hear about your friend's car. I hope you figure something out soon so you can start accomplishing the things you want to. Maybe the job will help you to stop feeling so depressed often, and then you'll get your scheming ways back and start working towards your next adventure.
I have 6 weeks before I embark on my journey that I've been working towards since February. It feels good, even if I'm a little stressed out about the details.

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[info]nerd4live
2009-07-12 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Yeah I hope so, at least I'll be making money instead of just spending money I've saved up.

Awesome, I hope things work out for you :)

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[info]bohemianthief
2009-07-13 05:38 pm UTC (link)
Yay Kylie, boo robbery, yay-ish job...

I dunno, you don't sound happy, which isn't good. But then again, a lot of us (myself included, although I think I'm on the up-and-out side of it) seem to have fallen into a (delayed) post-graduation funk. I notice it in a lot of conversations I have with our group of friends. I think the economy is a factor, but mostly it's the transition, the lack of certainty, the desire to be established instead of establishing. :\ I think we'll all get out of it, though. Just gotta keep working towards our goals and being patient...

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[info]nerd4live
2009-07-13 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Yeah I guess, I've been feeling like I've been getting older; I'm just afraid I'll get pregnant before I accomplish anything lol.

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[info]bohemianthief
2009-07-13 07:34 pm UTC (link)
I think that's a common/normal fear, but at the same time, lots of women get strangely motivated once they're pregnant and end up doing things when their kids go to school. Countless writers, anyway.

Hey, you could always start a mommy blog! I bet being an "ethnic" expat in Spain would make it interesting to people.

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[info]nerd4live
2009-07-13 08:09 pm UTC (link)
ewww no mommy blogs, EVAR

thanks for the motivation, though :)

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[info]jennelle
2009-08-27 07:51 pm UTC (link)
you need to update so I have something to read during classs :) or are you busy twittering?

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[info]nerd4live
2009-08-27 08:03 pm UTC (link)
Haha ok

Yeah I twitter too, but about once every 1-2 days, it's not enough to keep you entertained for long :P

Here read this if you want something to do until I update: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

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[info]nerd4live
2009-08-27 08:07 pm UTC (link)
Oh and get on facebook chat if you're online right now

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