Making Things Work

Trying to make things work and believing in yourself is hard work. After exactly a month in this apartment (meaning a month and a day in Lithuania) I have achieved:

• A regular (paid) position on a contract basis writing for a newspaper in Lithuania
• An offer (starting May) for a full time (paid) position (working from home) for an automotive magazine in Lithuania
• A local library membership
• One English student
• One friend
• A few beautifully cooked dinners (by me)
• Two sets of invitations for two (one of them being VIP) to exhibitions
• Visited cinema 3 times
• Wrote two articles so far, with another three to be written in the near future
• Read two books, about Klaipeda city, a big fat document on South Baltic Cross-Border Co-Operation Programme, currently reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and another four books waiting to be read.
• Been to one museum
• Found another article of mine that was published that I did not know about
• E-mailed over 150 perspective employers and received five inconclusive replies.
• Tried smoking a cigar and loved it.
• Started a photoblog.
• Spent lots of money and earned very little.

I am so tired that I did not know how to put things together. I did not know where to start. I feel good about what I have achieved, as once I listed almost everything, I can see that I have done a lot. At least in comparison to my boring days in Spain. I could do with some extra students and some more cash. Slowly but surely I know, just that slowly appears to be, a little too slow.