ScreamingMonkey




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  1. 1. Complete my thesis before December 2013
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  2. 2. Beat my depression
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  3. 3. Regulate my circadian rhythm
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  4. 4. Stop being a packrat
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  5. 5. Discover more music and listen to all the tracks and albums I already have
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  6. 6. Improve my social skills
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  7. 7. Stop picking the skin around my thumbs
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  8. 8. Improve my short-term memory
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  9. 9. Start creating art again
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  10. 10. Help my mother catalogue all the books in our house
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  11. 11. Move back to Europe
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  12. 12. Stop worrying about the future and embrace the present
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  13. 13. Meet my sister
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  14. 14. Learn to juggle
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  15. 15. Visit a nude beach
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  16. 16. Witness the aurora borealis
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  17. 17. Solve the Rubik's Pyramid
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  18. 18. Learn a third language
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  19. 19. See the stars
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  20. 20. Get lost in a hedge maze
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  21. 21. Stop feeling guilty about spending money on myself
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  22. 22. Go for a midnight picnic
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  23. 23. Make a quilt
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  24. 24. Learn how to drive a stick shift
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  25. 25. Fly a kite
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  26. 26. Visit a ghost town
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  27. 27. Let go of jealousy
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  28. 28. Find an alarm clock solution
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  29. 29. Go paintballing
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  30. 30. Watch a space shuttle launch
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  31. 31. Make myself more employable
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Find a flat (read all 4 entries…)
Up three flights of stone stairs


Find a flat (read all 4 entries…)
The all-too-familiar scenarios
  • 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!”


Find a flat (read all 4 entries…)
Same shit, different day

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.



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