min3rva




I'm doing 31 things
 

min3rva's Life List

  1. 1. watch more classic films
    34 people
  2. 2. share more books via www.bookcrossing.com
    1 cheer
    106 people
  3. 3. write more letters
    1 cheer
    1,522 people
  4. 4. Learn to sew my own clothes!
    1 cheer
    389 people
  5. 5. read all the books I own
    2 cheers
    1,138 people
  6. 6. have tea parties with interesting friends
    5 cheers
    2 people
  7. 7. learn to cook healthy vegetarian dishes
    1 cheer
    141 people
  8. 8. have a library
    1 cheer
    284 people
  9. 9. earn a living doing something crafty as well as something literary
    3 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. Write for a living
    1 cheer
    329 people
  11. 11. NEVER have children
    1 cheer
    86 people
  12. 12. pay off my student loan
    1 cheer
    664 people
  13. 13. Give blood
    2 cheers
    2,952 people
  14. 14. Make a difference
    3 cheers
    6,765 people
  15. 15. start a proper vegan diet
    2 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. Be a crazy cat lady
    1 cheer
    68 people
  17. 17. have cats
    2 cheers
    11 people
  18. 18. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    18,535 people
  19. 19. not care what people think of me or my choices
    77 people
  20. 20. get rid of my candy addiction
    1 person
  21. 21. learn chinese
    2,368 people
  22. 22. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
    6,962 people
  23. 23. get my lip pierced
    1,032 people
  24. 24. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
    413 people
  25. 25. Get a PhD
    2,776 people
  26. 26. become a researcher
    57 people
  27. 27. Start my own business
    1 cheer
    8,567 people
  28. 28. watch more black and white classic movies (pre-1950)
    1 cheer
    40 people
  29. 29. watch more classic spooky films like Nosferatu
    3 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. live in New York City for a while
    2 cheers
    17 people
  31. 31. dare to start looking more like i feel instead of how others expect me to
    6 cheers
    1 person
Recent entries
finish the last stage of getting my driver's license
and i hate driving, too! 3 years ago

You see, there’s two stages in getting the Finnish driver’s license. The first bit is the main driving school part, after which you get a temporary license that expires in two years. In order to get the permanent license, you need to complete this couple hours’ worth of ‘economical city driving’ class and a one-day class in how to manage your car safely or something, I’m not really sure what exactly. So anyway, it’s been nearly two years and I still haven’t done the second stage, for numerous and varied reasons. One being that I hate driving in this country, another that I hate the driving culture that I’m in, another that I hate that modern car manufacturers COULD easily build cheap hydrogen or hybrid cars or whatever, but they don’t, and so on and so forth. In short, all of this has given me so much head-ache that I’ve just pushed finishing my license more and more into “the distant future”, until now. I’ve got my first driving lesson in two years tomorrow morning and I’m absolutely terrified. But we shall see, as they say, what happens.



see stonehenge
Bitterly disappointing 4 years ago

I’m really sad to say that Stonehenge is not worth visiting at all. Firstly because Stonehenge is located on a tiny little hill between two major highways. Yeah, there goes the atmosphere. Secondly, it has a really wide circle of forbidden-to-enter-area around it (presumably to keep every eejit from stealing bits of it etc), so you can’t really even look at it properly. And there are tons and tons and TONS of tourists, every single hour of every single day. And of course you enter the hill-site through this little tunnel, which has a rubbish merchandise shop at the beginning. I mean jeez, cups and baseball caps and pens and all the rest of touristy shite nobody really needs. ARGH. I always thought Stonehenge was this “bastion of the pagan world”, something majestic and beautiful to behold and all that new agey jazz, but nowadays it’s just as commercialised as your average rid-stupid-tourists-of-their-cash-type place. But of course, I did visit three years ago, so maybe they’ve, y’know, built extra circle roads and gotten rid of the awful merchandise… Tsh, yeah right. So if you want to keep imagining Stonehenge as something beautiful & pagan and all that, don’t visit. Ever.




 

I want to:
43 Things Login