Hey, remember when it was the early 00's and every once in a while we all used to do this dramatic and dreaded thing called the FRIENDS CUT?! Well, I've just done the biggest friends cut EVER and deleted every single LJ friend that hasn't actively posted or commented in the past few months or whatever. This has left me with precisely 11 LJ friends ( Read more... )

(I'm not complaining, because some people can't find work, some people have to do work they loathe, and some people who would like to can't work at all for any number of reasons, but ( Read more... )

Helsinki Festival 2013 DONE. Holy fuck that was fun. I've said it before and will say it again - best job ever, best coworkers ever, best bosses ever, best best best. I can't wait for the 2014 edition.

In the meantime, it looks like I've secured myself another science fiction translation gig. Seriously, exactly how did it happen that my [ ( Read more... )

We came back from Estonia at 1.15 am last night, at 8.30 I went to work and badaboom!, during my 10 days off everyone'd come back from their holidays, boxes and boxes of the festival magazine we worked so hard to put together were filling up the corridors, ditto the Night of the Arts booklets -- my baby this year --, the phone rang constantly, the ( Read more... )

I don't know what to write on here anymore so I'll just tell you this summer has already been significantly better than last summer. No crippling health conditions, no crippling weather conditions, no crippling (un)employment conditions. As for other things going on in my life, I have decided the key to making my existence happier is going to the ( Read more... )

I'M OFF TO AMERICA, BYE

HELLO CLEVELAND!

I'm sitting on the train right now, travelling home having just interviewed this writer dude in another town in this country. Hello Turku, bye Turku ( Read more... )

Something happened to that 9-to-5-and-then-what? life I lead for about a week. Now it's 9-to-7-and-freelance-stuff-all-night-and-every-morning. Still no social life apart from boyfriend and co-workers - although I'm going to have to add I have the best boyfriend and the best co-workers, so I'm not sure if I even care. I also have the best job. I ( Read more... )

So sunny, oh joy! My BodyCombat™ class was cancelled, so I'm going to go and try running instead. I have a new neck warmer for running too (I am hopeless!), so maybe it'll be okay even though I haven't done any running at all for months. This winter never, ever ends. At least now it gets light early on and stays light well into early evening, it ( Read more... )

I'm utterly uninspired by LJ. I'm utterly uninspired by anything online, in fact - seriously, I've tried Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, a couple of different public blogs... and now it turns out I just don't use any of them and that's making me sad and frustrated, because I really want to have a presence in social media. Help me please ( Read more... )