Good that this pain in the ass gratefulness project is over soon. I'm not apparently the kind of person to feel gratitude that easily.
About a year ago I left my contact information to a local professional translators. I didn't hear from her for a long time, so I assumed she must have ditched me althogether. Today, however, I received a very nice phone call. She called me to offer a language check. Unfortunately, she would have needed the first two texts (information booklets of certain Finnish towns) for Wednesday. That's when I'm coming back home (I have to go for the heritage discussion thingy -perunkirjoitukset- today so I won't be coming back until then). But the really good thing is that she has all my contacts, knows I'm still interested in doing translations and spell checks. Maybe she'll phone me again at some point.
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I'm sure my wall neighbours love me right now; I just increase the volume whenever a good song is aired in the radio. Right now that's 'How long' by Hinder. Hail Radio Rock! Now if you could just play 'Six feet under the ground', 'Evolution' and 'I'm not Jesus' (Deathlike Silence, Korn, Apocalyptica feat. Corey Taylor)... nope, Coldplay and 'God put a smile on your face'. The song has a nice video, though.
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Okay, since I'll be offline for a couple of days I'll do this in advance:
I'm grateful for...
Day 9 (which was yesterday...): ...a nice gym instructor who managed to make me smile last night when I had a somewhat bad day.
Day 10: ...the professional translator considering me worth offering a job.
Day 11: ...people to speak with without the fear of being judged.
Day 12: ...having a life of my own and getting to make my own decisions.
2 kommenttia
millikan
23.8.2007 12:54
Heh, I think I will steer away from that gratitude project, since I would probably come up with stuff like "I'm grateful for gravity, without which we all would be flung to space", and after that start wondering if that would be such a bad thing after all...
Splenetic
24.8.2007 10:54
Nope, it probably wouldn't be that bad. I think I could list a few people I would be happy to see dwell in the void of the eternal darkness for the rest of their life (which, according to Douglas Adams, would be about thirty seconds if I recall correctly).
Now that my project is finally finished I'd say that if one is able to see things to be grateful of every day without trying... well, I doubt they need any kind of projects for that.