I'm doing 31 things
ScreamingMonkey's Life List
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1. Complete my thesis before December 2013
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2. Beat my depression
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3. Regulate my circadian rhythm
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4. Stop being a packrat
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5. Discover more music and listen to all the tracks and albums I already have
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6. Improve my social skills
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7. Stop picking the skin around my thumbs
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8. Improve my short-term memory
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9. Start creating art again
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10. Help my mother catalogue all the books in our house
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11. Move back to Europe
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12. Stop worrying about the future and embrace the present
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13. Meet my sister
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14. Learn to juggle
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15. Visit a nude beach
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16. Witness the aurora borealis
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17. Solve the Rubik's Pyramid
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18. Learn a third language
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19. See the stars
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20. Get lost in a hedge maze
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21. Stop feeling guilty about spending money on myself
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22. Go for a midnight picnic
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23. Make a quilt
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24. Learn how to drive a stick shift
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25. Fly a kite
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26. Visit a ghost town
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27. Let go of jealousy
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28. Find an alarm clock solution
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29. Go paintballing
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30. Watch a space shuttle launch
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31. Make myself more employable
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Recent entries
- People contacting me with offers – and then ignoring my phone calls and e-mails when I respond to let them know I’m interested
- Great location, price, and people – basic household appliances missing
- Good offer – available only for some inconvenient period of time
- Good offer – room is unfurnished, which simply amounts to additional expenses
- Good offer – tenants have weird habits or demands (ex. a long list of expectations regarding the new flatmate’s diet and how they should contribute to the collective social life of everyone in the flat)
- Good offer – the flat is so far from the city centre that it might as well be within the borders of a separate municipality (and probably was at some point)
- Good offer – tenants are concert performers or musicians and need to practice 4-6 hours a day
- People contacting me with offers – and then ceasing to respond again after the first two or three e-mails exchanged
- Good offer – “Must be over 25”, “Must speak Russian”, “Must speak Turkish”, “Must be athletic”, “Must like partying”, “Must be a hockey player”, “Vegans and vegetarians ONLY!”
And the most disheartening, infuriating one of all…
- Unbeatable offer and great tenants – “We picked someone else. But don’t worry, you’ll find a flat eventually!”
Finding a flat in Vienna is proving far more difficult than I’d anticipated (or maybe I simply set my expectations too high, for once?). I admit I could have probably made more of an effort to search online over the summer, but then again, most people will not accept a new flatmate without first meeting them in person, and I was unavailable at the time.
While lots of ads within my price-range get posted each day, the competition is absolutely fierce. If an individual with an ad can receive 600 e-mail responses within just four hours of posting (as one person did claim), that means my chances of getting any kind of reply are severely reduced unless I write within the first few minutes of a new ad popping up. This, in turn, means waking up extra early and spending most of the day sitting at the computer, refreshing web pages and checking my inbox obsessively.
