Tag: life updates
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10 weeks of madness in 10 songs and 10 photos
Spotify playlist here In June, in my notes I started writing a post with a provisional title “From Eden to Land of Confusion”. It was originally continuing my “self-discovery journey”, building on the previous posts about starting a new job, and mental health in Hi Esther and Who’s they anyway. Week 1 (w/c May 19th)…
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Best place on Earth
I’m very privileged to have experienced several unique and inspiring places. Cambridge is certainly one of them, and there are others I’ve visited or lived in briefly, from Ariège to San Diego to Oaxaca to Chiang Mai. However, to me, the best place on Earth is in the middle of nowhere in Latvia. It has…
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Who’s they anyway
NB: writing this post has spurred a new tag on this blog – “discovering the obvious” – which of course is applicable to some of the previous posts too Wait, was that allowed? I referenced this phrase in one of the previous posts. It’s a Russian-speaking meme that in the original reads as А чё,…
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Hi Esther & Supermassive Black Hole
Hi Esther I get emotional quite easily these days. Not sure if it would’ve happened at another time, but this morning I cried while listening to a song. Not the Muse one, this one: Ren – Hi Ren (Official Music Video) – YouTube Of course it’s individual but if you listen to it, I recommend…
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Am I one of those people now?!
I just wrote a LinkedIn post, copied below: To be honest, I have to overcome some social anxiety to post these sort of things, as I’ve always found talking about myself and my achievements publicly kind of icky. In some ways, LinkedIn is a bit less icky to use than Facebook, which I occasionally did…
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Как я купила пилочку для ногтей, или депрессия наносит ответный удар
(раз за разом, хотя джедаи тоже пока что возвращаются). 7 лет назад я написала длинный пост про депрессию и тревогу, который до сих пор держит мой рекорд по количеству реакций, комментариев, личных отзывов и т.п. (хотя последнее время я все хочу уйти с фб, но это другая тема). To cut a long story short, за…
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