Smelly Swiss Dilettante

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Jean
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I like it in Europe. I didn't feel welcome by the spirits of the Land there. It ranged from tolerating in the uper peninsula to hostile in southern Michigan. The humans were really nice. It was really like some kind of Ghost attaches to the Land.
The feeling of being home when i arrived in iceland from Chicago was stunningly contrasting. They were happy to have me back and gave me every rights. It's probably all in m'y head

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Interesting. I’ve never felt rejected by the spirits of a land. Maybe because I am female, so universal mixer.

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Or maybe you never felt love from them, so you couldn't tell. Three weeks were enough to believe this reject was the normal.

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No, I am pretty much a neo-pantheistic. It is possible that Colorado rejected me, but it felt like I was doing the rejecting due to lack of water. Mountains actually don’t do much for me. I even prefer swamps. I also prefer a deciduous mix over mostly coniferous.

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I hope things improve for you Jean. I sometimes feel the same about places, like I always feel at home in Switzerland, there is a sort of primeval purity in the Alps which draws me. I have this vague idea of living there for a few months next year in a mountain chalet (if you know anywhere cheap-ish ?)

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The most tangible negative manifestation is: a lot of nightmares, feeling of a very hostile presence, that want you to leave. That was weird in michigan which is objectively very similar to forest and swanp landscape were I feel at home. So it's not really linked to how the place looks. Isle royale is objectively a paradise for me, but I didn't felt that good on it. It was awesome, but i wasn't feeling at home the way I do in many parts of europe.
The positive, like in iceland, manifest itself by a huge confidence, that i can go anywhere, and that nothing will happen to me. Even if i'm wet, cold, and out of water. Or sometimes, It's almost like a groove asks you to stay around. When you make sleep paralysis like dream, the presence is soothing, and wants to be close to you.
In the US, I a posteriori linked it to how dirty the war against the native had been, but this isn't a feeling, just a rationalisation.

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Thanks, i really motivated me to this master with ideas of nuclear spaceship and antartica base, but my belief (delusion?) that it would happen in my career just vanished, and now i can only picture being homer simpson, which is much less motivating. For the chalet, it's a very vague demand and depands on your standard for confort, how much in the mountain, and cheapness.
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@jean - Anything cheap as possible with good wifi and hot running water would be fine. I am more positive about the future, things will return more or less to normal in due course. Crisis always seem bigger at the time, so don't give on you're Antarctic dreams.

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Jean wrote:
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I like it in Europe. I didn't feel welcome by the spirits of the Land there. It ranged from tolerating in the uper peninsula to hostile in southern Michigan. The humans were really nice. It was really like some kind of Ghost attaches to the Land.
That is because the Hollanders clear cut the native forest to create a cornfield prairie. The rivers muddied up, the fish died, the game disappeared and the natives moved north to where the forest still existed.

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I have honestly no idea if it's my subconcious talking to me, the trees making human repelant or attractant chemicals depending on the situation, proper ghosts, or me being crazy.

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@jean - Maybe all of the above ;) Though I find there is something special and mysterious about iron age hill forts, like you feel something from the spirits of people who used to live there.

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With the distances you were driving, I am not surprised that you were burned out with negative emotions. I have experienced the same. Try making decisions and choosing behavior that brings comfort and tranquility into your life, you may be pushing yourself too hard.

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As long as i don't try to work, I'm fine (spend most of the week end doing stuff outside, it was nice).
But as soon as i try to work, it gets terrible. It reminds me of my PhD time.
It's annoying to see how i resist to any kind of ambition.

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You are unhappy because you beat yourself up for not being ambitious, but the ambitious people are never happy.

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I'm not really unhappy, only when i try to work. As soon as i decide to do it later, i'm fine.
I was happy about the work as long as i knew where i hoped it to lead me.

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I started mining as the rate i get on my GPU at 90w(65°C, it's the temp at which the GPU starts to degrade faster) is around 6chf/day. My strategy is to buy very cheap crypto that looks goods (looking good defined by a guess after reading about it for 15minutes on how high it can go) for how much i get after letting my computer ran for half a day(0.0001 BTC). It's just a way to turn my heating into lottery tickets.
I will pause my study until i can go back to school. I will try to get a internship in the olkiluoto nuclear power plant for this summer. Until then, I'll will write a book. I have a few idea, and am close to decide for one. If I don't get the internship, i'll go back working on the alp. I will also as soon as possible travel to Latvia to look for real estate to buy.

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Good luck with the book Jean. Fiction or non fiction ?

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I made around 400.- with the mining, so my GPU is paid.
No one answered my application for internship, it killed my motivation for the degree, as i'm not planing to build a nuclear reactor at home.
I got back to sport, first week was harder than when i was 20something, but now it's ok. I'm impressed by my own biceps and quads. Posture is already straigther, back pain are gone. Motivation is to be still reasonably fit when my kid will be in their twenties.
I went hiking 1 week with girlfriend and was able to get rid of my need for clean underwear (see personal hygiene topic)
I wrote a few short text. My book will definitely be fiction. I still need to find a good reason to write. Today I'm fine with the idea of dying without leaving a work behind me, but I will probably change this.

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Jean wrote:
Mon May 17, 2021 6:53 am
My book will definitely be fiction. I still need to find a good reason to write. Today I'm fine with the idea of dying without leaving a work behind me, but I will probably change this.
I have adopted a method where I write a minimum of 20 words a day. Such an easy target to achieve but in a year you will have written a novelette.

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@chenda 20 words is an even better goal than the 2 minute goal I have! I will try that instead! It is really amazing how thoughts and ideas accumulate over the year. Especially with shorter writing goals done consistently there are more often times when I look back and am surprised by the ideas that were top of mind a year or two ago.

@jean I started editing some of my small snippets and combining them into topics so that I can give it to my nieces and nephews. It is not going to be a fantasy epic, or the next great novel, or any of that. Just some thoughts and short stories for them. Often times I have them in mind when writing as an audience. In the case of only fiction, why not make a collection of 5-10 shorter stories?

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