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100 ideas

I came across this list of 100 ideas to brighten up your day. I spend 7 and a half hours typing data into a computer...I need all the help I can get. Plus, my idea for making my life more interesting is to learn Lithuanian! It's hard to feel like I'm achieving anything quickly here. This week on the way to work (one hour bus journey) I learnt the first two lessons in po truputį, including conjugating some verbs, declension of nouns in the genitive and locative, asking questions, introducing myself, countries and nationalities, about 30 adjectives and professions. A quick question for all you Lithuanians out there. You know the adjective juokingas (it means funny as in haha funny)? Well, is it from the English word joke or joking? Have you ever thought about this connection?

Well, the ideas from the link are a lot more attainable than learning a whole language. Let's have a go:

Idea number 37. List all the places you've ever lived. OK, this one is easy: Blackburn, Cologne, Oxford, Yaroslavl.

Idea number 39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine. ??? Well, firstly it's not my washing machine, but I think we have a healthy relationship. No socks go missing, no clothes shrink and it's automatic (unlike the ones in the public laundry in Yaroslavl!)

Idea number 58. List you ten most important things (not including animals or people). This is just from the top of my head and after just taking a quick glance around my room. I hope this doesn't mean practical things like shoes or anything. Photographs and letters, German dictionary, Russian dictionary, Russian vocabulary notes, my computer, passport, paper, pens, my necklace. So the list isn't too sentimental. But that Russian dictionary is a second hand bookshop find and I haven't seen it in any other shops.

Just one last link to finish off the post. It's 3 o'clock in the morning in a Yaroslavl suburb. You've drunk 5 litres of beer and the thirst is kicking in. But you remember you can't drink tap water and boiled water tastes like crap. What do you do? Go to a kiosk staffed by a lonely old woman. Knock on the little glass window and get served some refreshing mineral water. Oh and a packet a crisps. Oh and just one more beer. Oh yeah and a mars bar...In celebration of the wonderment of kiosks (a rarity here in Britain) is the website Kioskierung. Scroll down for a link to the English version.

Created: 2008-01-17 18:26, Tags: blogs, creativeness, ideas, kiosks, links, Yaroslavl