Study trouble

[martinemonster]

I'm back, comfortably behind my computer with a pile of sources stacked next to me an a comically large cup of coffee placed a safe distance away from the previously mentioned sources. And I can't focus. I look at them and try to go through them but every time I start I get this panicked feeling in my tummy and something tells me there's just no use. I have no methodological stand point for my research so why the hell am I reading these books now? Then I try to tell myself that I'm reading them to get the overview of the material at hand, and that I'll get to the method part as soon at I can talk to my tutor at the university. But it doesn't help. I still can't focus.

I've now done what I always love doing in these cases:

Airfare to San Francisco: 969 dollars
Airfare to New York: 950 dollars
Airfare to Sacramento: 1206 dollars
Airfare to Dallas: 1200 dollars
Airfare to Barcelona: 160 dollars
Airfare to Madrid: 160 dollars
Airfare to Tokyo: 950 dollars
Airfare to Glasgow: 160 dollars

Shall we run away anyone?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Help me rob a bank, and I'll go to Tokyo with you.

[sortkatt.livejournal.com]

The other (the one I'm replying to now) anonymous was me. Again. I hate, hate, hate, hate my work-computer and it's tendency to log me off when I'm not watching. Probably it's (not so) subtle way of telling me to go the hell back to work.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I don't want to rob a bank. I want to be able to go back afterall.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Who are you?

[(Anonymous)]

(The other anonymous was not me.)

Eg skal liksom skriva ei fri oppgåve for minst fire instrument i arrangering og komponering. Så langt har eg G-dur og 6/8-takt.

I have my last exam 2. june and quit my job the 31. of may. So if you wanna run, I'm in.

Og så har eg søkt sammordna opptakting.

[(Anonymous)]

And this is G.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Vel, rømmingen funker best hvis den skjer nå...må jeg vente til juni er jo eksamnene allerede over.

[(Anonymous)]

Men då ville jo eg og gå glipp av eksamenane mine! Det funkar jo dårleg.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Nei, nettopp. Vi rømmer fra eksamnene. Etter eksamen er det jo ingen grunn til å rømme. Da kan man jo bare dra på ferie...

[(Anonymous)]

Jo! For etter eksamen må eg jo finna ut kva eg skal til neste år og slikt, så då må eg i alle fall røma. Eksamen derimort går sikkert greit.
Men altså. Tyrkia?

[(Anonymous)]

Tyrkia? her sagt med positivt, ikkje kritisk tonefall.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Tyrkia? Hmmm...med tog tenkte du?

Er det ikke sånn at vi ikke liker Tyrkia av en eller annen grunn (sa damen som dro til USA)?

[(Anonymous)]

Vel, det er vel sånn at me ikkje likar Kina heller. Utan at det har hindra meg i å dra dit :) Uansett er eg ikkje så fan av boykotting (korleis skriv ein eigentleg det), for det kan lett ramma litt feil.

Tog, bil, whatever :)

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Høres utrolig bra ut! Hadde vært gøy. (Boikotting btw.)

[(Anonymous)]

Lat oss gjera det då. Eg har jo fri i sommar :)

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Jeg og forsåvidt...god ide!

[gasolinebreath.livejournal.com]

there was no sydney on this..

i still can't believe you went to newtown back in the day

COME BACK!!!

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

I'd love to come back! It's one of my favorite parts in the world...

Unfortunately, the only tickets I could find was 2096 dollars. And that is fairly expensive, even for me.

[jiituomas.livejournal.com]

Bah, with less money you could simply come back to Finland. And I'm sure we could fix you a nice job here, claiming that it's just a heavy dialect of Swedish that you're speaking, and hide you away in some Small Finnish Village where no one would ever find you.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd have to work there...and also, I was just in Finland. Plus, do I know someone who actually live in this apparently not so small village?

[jiituomas.livejournal.com]

I can easily think of a few others you've met and befriended at SK too, so hiding here would not automatically mean a shared bed with anyone. (Guest rooms are a different thing, though.)

But anyway, fleeing here would put you in familiar territory, and no one would look for you in such an obvious location. Not before 2012 anyway. :)

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

That is a good point. Hmmm...hiding in (almost) plain sight. It sounds tempting.

[cheshire-monkey.livejournal.com]

Why is it the most expensive to come see us? *grrs*

I know it gets tiring and focus is the hardest thing to come across, but you can do this. You can make it work.

*has faith in you*

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I guess the world is trying to tell me not to run away...and yes, I'll probably manage...sigh.

[eldfast.livejournal.com]

Ja, rymma! Jag vill också rymma :)

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Hurra! Har du noen preferanser? Jeg har alltid vært fan av ideen om å dukke opp på flyplassen uten bagasje med passet mitt og spørre om hvor det er billigst å fly.

[eldfast.livejournal.com]

Jag har alltid haft en romantisk syn på saker som luffare och cirkusar och resandefolk ... Jag tycker om tanken på att ge mig ut och bara gå – eller cykla eller åka buss eller tåg eller flyg (men flyg passar lite sämre med min romantiska dröm, för den ingår det att kunna kliva av var som helst, att få syn på en vacker äng/sjö/pojke/flicka/hus/vad som helst, och helt enkelt stanna kvar en tid, för att sedan dra vidare.) Jag tror att det är samma fascination som alltid får det att svindla av sorglighet och skönhet när jag läser/hör/ser såna där episka berättelser om förlorad tid och evig kärlek och ... allt det där som aldrig kommer tillbaka: de förlorade möjligheterna, ögonblicken när man tog chansen, du vet?
I verkligheten är jag lite rädd, rädd för att tappa bort mina vänner om jag ger mig av, rädd att det ska hända en massa spännande som jag missar medan jag är borta, att jag ska förvandlas till en vresig eremit ... :-D
Det bästa vore om man kunde rymma många tillsammans, men då kanske det spontana örsvinner och det snarare blir en planerad resa :-(

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Jeg og. har alltid hatt litt lyst til å stille meg på en bensinstasjon og begynne å haike uten mål eller mening.

Tror det kommer an på vennene hvorvidt man klarer å få til en spontan reise uten at det ender opp med å bli altfor planlagt. Jeg liker å tro jeg hadde fått det til sammen med noen, men selv når jeg prøver har det ikke gått enda.

På den andre siden, jeg forsvant to måneder til USA, og ingenting grusomt stort skjedde mens jeg var borte og alle vennene mine var fortsatt her da jeg kom tilbake. Tror det går å rømme litt alene og, så lenge man ikke blir borte altfor lenge...

[(Anonymous)]

Du rømmer ikke alene når du planlegger turen i månedsvis på forhånd. Du drar på ferie.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Sant nok, men det beviser fortsatt at folk elsker deg selv om du blir borte en stund før du kommer tilbake igjen...

[eldfast.livejournal.com]

Ja, som vem det nu är säger här nedanför: att rymma många tillsammans, och planlagt, det är "bara" att dra på ferie. Och det är inte lika romantiskt, inte lika farligt eller skrämmande. Förmodligen kan det i praktiken vara precis lika bra dock, men folk är dåliga på planlagd rymning också! På idéstadiet är det många som vill göra långa, spontana roadmovieresor eller tältturer i vildmarken, men sen visar det sig alltid att de egentligen måste jobba eller vara med sina flickvänner/pojkvänner och allt vad det är :-(

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Ikke sant. Det er problemet med hverdagslivet. Det tar over alt og plutselig sitter man fast i det og kan ikke bare stikke av. Sikkert egentlig litt fint også, men litt skummelt allikevel.

[mushiboble.livejournal.com]

I'll get 9600 on friday.
I have no work except from week 18 and 20.
I'll go anywhere with you!
(just not america,
since I've been a very bad girl, and they wont let me in there since I've got things on my record D:)

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? What did you do?

[mushiboble.livejournal.com]

Me and a guy drove off the road.
And then I apparently told the police that I was driving the car,
when I actually just planned to do it. (to help the car out of the road)
And I don't have the driver license.
oh, and cause I had smoked pot the same night/morning before we took off.

D:

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Doh! Well, that sucks. Okay, so no America for us then. How do you feel about hitch hiking?

[aj-stalin.livejournal.com]

Hell-fucking-o!

*waves*

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[kyokomurasaki.livejournal.com]

Go to Barcelona. Doooooooooo ittt. Barcelona is amazing and much less expensive than Sacramento. ^_~

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

that is true. And it's one of my favorite European cities. Then again, I've been there 5 times already. I've never been to Madrid...

[kyokomurasaki.livejournal.com]

Madrid is lovely too.