As I've mentioned before, I'm a project junkie. I'll find a new interest, dive into it fully for several weeks, then lose the taste and forget about it for ages. And my pre-existing, established interests sit in a wheel that circles round, waxing and waning in importance and interests. I picture this when I was teenager like a little roulette wheel. Where was my attention going to bounce to next? Writing a novel? Making an RPG maker game? Making an UTAUloid? Vlogging? Learning Icelandic?
It scares me, it scares me not
After graduating from uni, I spent about a year and a half after uni pursuing writing projects, with the naïve goal of becoming a full-time romance writer within a short span of time. As you can imagine, this didn't quite work out, and I eventually decided that, for the short term, I needed a day job.
How to not be weird about finding someone’s online presence
So, you're a parent, friend, teacher, whatever to a Certain Person, and one day while Googling online, or through the arcane workings of Whatsapp, you find the Internet Page of said Person. It could be a philosophical blog, a gawky vlog, a lewd Twitter... The important thing is, it's something personal that you had no idea about. You get a little thrill of finding something out you "weren't supposed to", and maybe even a pang of hurt, because you feel like you know this Person so well that they should've told you about it.
Is ambition borne out of solitude?
I never considered myself an ambitious person, but it's a label others have applied to me. I've always been a project junkie: RPG maker, UTAU, fandubbing, conlanging, NaNoWriMo, Bitsy, vlogging... Heck, once I even started translating The Mencius into Esperanto. This blog and my podcast are just the latest in a long list of Internet-based/derived hobbies. But surely this isn't a sign of ambition? After all, they're pretty niche.
Ĉu krei aŭ ne krei? Tia staras ia demando
Ĉijare mi lanĉis podkaston en la angla, Easy Stories in English (Facilaj Rakontoj en la Angla), serio da mallongaj fikciaĵoj agorditaj al diversaj niveloj de lernantoj. Mi konsciis, ke ne ekzistas multaj rakont-bazitaj materialoj, eĉ en la angla, do mi decidis krei ĝin, kaj ĝis nun ĝi estis modere sukcesa, atinginte pli ol 10,000 aŭskultojn ekde Januaro.
Intercambiando vulnerabilidad
Acabo (al momento de escribir) de visitar una amiga española. Charlamos casi todo el tiempo en español, y aunque la entendí por gran parte, yo no pude hablar muy largo. Y después de dos horas juntas, sentía que mi energía había sido extraido, y apenas pude decir ni entender ni una palabra de castellano.
What is confidence, really?
Before I teach online, I get really nervous. Yesterday was the first class in a long while and it was no different.
Chocophone
The girl in front of me took a bar of Lindt chocolate out of her bag and read the ingredients, and I thought it was a phone.
Spice Up Your Life: Pop Meets Fascism
The Spice Girls were unstoppable. When the music video for Spice Up Your Life was made, this theme was thus chosen: world domination. In a New York dressed up to look like Blade Runner, the girls rule over a fearful populace, dictating their dominance through cheery pop vocals.
Fragile like glass
If I have an idea for a blog post and I don't write it down, it's already dead. If I have an idea for a blog post and do write it down, it's already dying.
The Polyglot Lion 