Challenge Fails And Wins, Penpal Angst, And a Little Thank You to Terry Pratchett

Last night, just as I was going to bed, I got a terrible urge to write a blog post, but since I was tired, I decided to scribble the main points down on my iPhone and write the thing today. So I did it. I’m in school now, in class, and there is nothing to do here but write, so here goes.

So, I’ve been failing on the majority of challenges I’ve put up for myself. In fact, the only two that I’ve managed to hold up to so far are the decision to attend all lectures and stay away from alcohol. But those are the easiest. It’s easy to not do something I’m not used to doing anyway. And it’s easy to show up in school where I’m supposed to be at certain times anyway. It is much harder to gather up the willpower to sit down and learn Korean for 30 minutes a day. It is much harder to restrain myself from spending money on food if I get all kinds of freaky cravings and the store is right next door and I have people coming over and I feel like I deserve that piece of blue cheese… And it is just so easy to forget to blog for ten minutes every night, because I’m not used to it.

Habits die hard.

Oh well. Shit happens. I’ll try to be better in October – I already have some challenges thought up for next month – I’ll decide which ones to take up by the end of this week.

On another note, I owe a huge ginormous immense gigantic apology to Matti. A letter to him is long overdue and, even though I’ve had plenty of time on my hands, I haven’t managed to sit down and write him. I don’t know why, but writing letters is hard. I promise I will write to him at the end of this week, though, by which time I might have some more or less exciting news to share.

Also, I’m (finally!) almost done with Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, which I have been reading since June. It is still as good as I remember it to be. I love Terry Pratchett. I love him to pieces for creating Discworld, for giving people all over the world the opportunity to immerge themselves in a world so delightfully odd and parodical of ourselves that we don’t even mind being mocked – in fact, we enjoy it, we expect it.

Thank you, Terry Pratchett. You rock. And not in a mineral kind of way.

This should be it for this post. I hope everyone is well (all the three people that read this, heh) and eating a lot of vegetables. Vegetables are good for you. Yes. Hum.