Just a poorly drawn carrot writing about life and stuff she cares about
Ever since I started to come to terms with the fact that I have a limited amount of energy at my disposal most days, I tried to find a strategy to allocate my resources in the least frustrating way. As the simple act of choosing activities / tasks – e. g. what needs to be … Continue reading One Thing a Day
I seem to have fallen out of the habit of writing a little something for the blog every two-ish months and interestingly, I’ve been feeling guilty about it. That, in turn, probably exacerbated my not wanting to write anything new, as it ended up being something else on my to-do list, waiting to be taken … Continue reading Exhaustion / Hello Again
I wake up. It’s 7.19 am on a Saturday. I slept for 8 hours and 18 minutes, according to my Garmin watch, and apparently the quality of my sleep was excellent (which is a rare occurrence). I feel a little out of it, confused by the array of dreams I had throughout the night – … Continue reading (Un-)Masked
Schockelasrull? My non-Luxembourgish readers may wonder what it is – well, let me tell you, it’s pure bliss in the shape of pastry. The French call it pain au chocolat and it’s been a bit of a staple comfort food in my home ever since a friend told me that two of the grocery stores … Continue reading Schockelasrull
The past weeks (or maybe months) I’ve had the feeling that humanity, as a whole, is headed in a terribly wrong direction. To be fair, this has probably been happening for years, but I somehow no longer manage to summon the tiny ray of hope that we, as a society, could possibly still turn this … Continue reading Destination: Doom
A friend of mine recently sent me the Buzzfeed article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Peterson. As I started reading it, I noticed that it gave me a feeling of resonance that I had felt once before – yup, I had already read this. But even this time, there were certain … Continue reading The Self-Optimisation Conundrum
It’s almost 1 a.m. and I can’t for the life of me convince my brain to go to sleep, even though I’m tired and have been feeling rather exhausted for most of the day (from a lack of quality sleep from the nights before, duh). What does Brian have to do with that, you ask? … Continue reading Late Night Musings of Brian
For the first time ever (I think), I wrote a diary-like blog post that contains a bit of a storyline, which I believe was necessary to make the post work. As I’m typing this, I’m on a three-day ski trip in the French Alps, which probably doesn’t seem like a valid reason to be dealing … Continue reading Introversion Magnification
The other day I went for an after-work drink with friends at a “beach” (AKA a pile of sand dumped on the concrete in front of an office building) in Luxembourg City. We talked about how it’s considered normal to think about our work situation when asked if we’re feeling stressed because “being stressed” generally … Continue reading Choice Paralysis
Today’s Monday. Like a tremendous number of other people (and Garfield), I don’t like Mondays. It’s not even a regular Monday, it’s actually a day off. A bank holiday, as the British would call it. But still, I feel tired. To be fair, I didn’t get as much sleep over the weekend as I’d have … Continue reading Monday Struggles
Carrot Days 