Sooooooo… currently in another state. Have spent the last two weeks more or less living in the middle of nowhere. WHOOT. Why? “WHY AM I IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?” I’ll pretend you’re thinking when in actual fact you’ve probably skipped this chunk of text while scrolling your dashboard or something. Well, the answer is I’m at a lead and zinc mine for summer vacation work. Gave myself more or less one week to de-zombify myself post-finals then BAM, here I am. I elected to work all the way until the last weekday before the semester starts, which I’ve been told by everyone is a crazy idea. Eh, I’ll deal with it. So yeah, I’m in this state’s main city (it’s so devoid of people and buildings are so small and fewer than what I’m used to it feels somewhat erroneous to cal it a city but I fear that I may be maimed by the people who live here so I’ll do what the Romans do) for the weekends but I’ll be flying back to live at the mines for the rest of the week.
Just finished a week at the mines. Twelve-hour shifts, ftw. Thankfully I spend half the time in an air-conditioned lab so I don’t quite die from heat exhaustion. Still, it’s so flipping hot. Dust + heat + sweat = mighty uncomfortable Annie. I WILL DEAL WITH IT THOUGH. Food is great. Buffet, whoooo! Also, DIE FLIES, DIE. AND MOZZIES. I HATE YOU. *death glares*
This will lack logic or order since I’m basically mind-dumping right now. Erm, so why did I choose to work in the middle of no-where for summer break? Usually I spend my breaks reading, sleeping, eating, you know, the usual hermit stuff. This year, I thought I’d do something different. To cut the story short, balls of super hot hydrogen and helium gas aligned in the skies in a way that had negligible (if any) effect on my life but I still had many favourable things happen. I was offered many awesome options and decided to have a change of pace in a place that most differed from my usual life. I like trying new things so why not go for something totally different. So here I am. For the next thirteen weeks I will:
- Have no access to my computer and gadgets (apart from my phone) and minimal internet connection - it’s no exaggeration to say I live on my computer so this should be interesting. One week in and I find myself quite bored. Thankfully with the long hours I need a lot of sleep. Still, I find myself with two or three hours a day with nothing to do. So far, I’ve spent that time watching TV. I haven’t been watching TV for years. Have commercial ads always been this long? And the assortment of TV shows are quite strange and often boring.
- Sleep more. I have been presented with the best opportunity to modify my sleeping pattern. In the past semester I’ve gone from sleeping three or four hours a day to about five. Now I need at least seven hours a day with work and the lack of things to do helps me get that. AWESOME.
- Not be living at home with family or friends. This is the first time I’ve done this. I live with family friends on the weekends. Given the amount of time I’ve been interacting with them as of late I guess I can call them my friends now. They have a one-month old baby. Baby is adorable. I haven’t lived with a baby for a decade now. THE BABY IS SO TINY. And fragile. And adorable. ADLKSJFLJ. But yeah, I feel bad for disrupting their life and home so I’ve been trying to help out as much as possible and otherwise staying out of their way. Forcing myself to live the way other people live has made me more aware of how I’ve been living and behaving. Makes for some good self-reflection. Hopefully with this knowledge I’ll be able to change and become a better person, which is a huge motivator for this whole thing form me.
- Be living with minimal possessions. I have a lot and use a lot of things. It’s interesting having just a dozen items of clothing, and random essentials that all fit into a medium sized back pack. Having to continually travel around back and forth so much combined with the bag of possessions is interesting. I actually had no trouble adjusting to this and I’m not sure what that says about me and my previous lifestyle. Hmm..
- Contact with family and friends will be minimal due to the close-to lack of internet, no face-to-face contact, and my living-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thing meaning telephone connections are funky at the best of times. It also doesn’t help that the majority of the people I’m closest to are in another state or out of the country (touring different places and having the ultimate relaxation trip,or so I’ve been smugly told).
Andddd… I can’t think of anything else. Actually, I can’t really think right now at all. The tenses and so messed up here. Run-on sentences, ftw. Basically I will not be living a life of comfort and squalor. I tried going to the library today but this city doesn’t even have enough people to justify opening on Sundays or something. FTW. WHAT IS THIS. I JUST WANT TO READ BOOKS. I miss reading. ;___; If I hadn’t been so obstinate about only carrying one back-pack then I’d have carried a bag of books with me. Le sigh. Still, next week I’ll be at the library on Saturday. PLEASE BE OPEN THEN. LET ME BORROW BOOKS. Or just one. Just one will do… for a week. D: Also, I have yet to see a flipping bus in this city. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO ANYWHERE IN THE DAY WITHOUT BEING FRIED? I miss the bus too. D: I’m seriously considering getting a bike just to use for the weekend… This city is nice and flat so I can actually ride one here if I wanted to. HORRAH. Talking of being fried, apparently it’s almost monsoon season. That basically means lots of rain, thunder and cyclones. Joy.
EDIT: I’ve asked to borrow someone’s computer to check my email for a bit and ended up here. Oh Tumblr, I miss you. To think that I’ll have little chance to check you in the near future saddens me. OH, and the picture is a photo I took during yesterday afternoon. The sunsets and sunrises in this state are so pretty. That’s a huge plus in my book, hahaha.
December 04, 2011, 3:35pm
