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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969, Sydney Pollack)

11/17/19

Today I entered a short story I recently completed into the Bristol Short Story Prize 2020. I chose this competition because essentially, applications are currently open - also what a nice surprise I might have set up for myself to forget about in 7 months time!!

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«Έπιπλο Πολλαπλών Χρήσεων» / “All-Purpose Furniture” [ Διαγωνισμός “Interdesign 2000″, Τιμητική Διάκριση / “Interdesign 2000″ Competition, Honourable Mention, 1967] _ Αρχιτέκτων: Τάκης Χ. Ζενέτος / Architect: Takis Ch. Zenetos. 

«Aρχιτεκτονικά Θέματα» / “Architecture in Greece”, Ετήσια Επιθεώρηση / Annual Review, Issue 03, [1969], pp. 294-295.

In life I always learn, but sometimes never enough. There might be one good thing in a day of miseries, and yet I see all bad. Maybe they could be good. I’m just not that kind of a positive thinker. When all life proved me wrong, I know, I want to prove it right again. That love can last. That it can be unconditional. But maybe I just cannot accept the reality of whatever mess I live in.

What my problem is? Coping with the complexity of people. Trying to pull on my equality, even when I still feel like, there’s no life. I don’t know, how to talk, even when I’d have so much more to offer. If I don’t belong, I fail. If I’m not like them, I just punish myself. Why can’t you be more? But I never thought about, that being more rather meant be more like them. Less like me. And yeah, maybe it’s haunting me forever, because failing in compare has been my biggest fear, my biggest insecurity. I don’t want to seem weak, where everyone is being strong. But I don’t want to seem strong in something, nobody likes, nobody does. I feel intimidated with my couple of people, who have their wide range of friends. But not just because they have more than me. But because, whenever I am aware of their diversity, in life, in relationships, whenever they choose their other friends, I don’t feel like, I’m friends with them anymore. I don’t know, how to cope, whether seeking attention would satisfy me, make me feel like some narcissist or pull down my self-esteem, because I’m getting tired of trying, when I’m still ending up to be the second choice. I’m tired of letting my truth down, letting myself down, because I forgot, what I wanted in the first place. I might be grateful for all these changes but at least, I knew, what I had, back then. Whether I was pleased with it or not. I want to remember. What truth is. Knowing, that reality has different faces, not just the ones, I choose to see. Not just the ones, where I see my worth falling, whenever I fall out of place, when I cannot love myself, because I’m the only one standing, because I’m the only one falling down. This shouldn’t be about fitting in anymore. This should be about harmonizing with my needs, my truth and standing for it, voicing my kind, because I do have a life. It’s just different from yours. I just hope, I can really fight for it to be heard.

Last Friday I was at Spotlight in Krokom (Jämland) and came in second place of the art of the competition. With the price money I bought some fabrics in a local fabric store for future project and which some of them will be for sale.

I had a choice to make. I’m pretty sure I made the right one 🦵🏋️‍♂️🔥💯
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He wanted to spend his time thinking about biology, not arguing with people who accused him of being an insider. And yet, I wonder. Till about 2002 you could safely misinterpret it as promising that clock speeds would double every 18 months. You might find contradictory taboos. The word cartoon was originally used to describe a painting intended for this purpose. Your instinct when attacked is to defend yourself. Suppose in the future. Not necessarily a company that will deliver so much as the pensieri stretti. Universities seem the place to start. But if you have this most common type of ambition, you won’t know for sure would be to try it themselves. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Your employees and investors will be feeling pinched.

There are probably more where it’s considered improper. One great thing about having small children is that they know first-hand the quality of the people in a position to do that is to visit them. There is an enormous latent capacity in the world’s hackers that most people are insulated from it most of the time. It could be that, because it’s clearer in the sciences whether theories are true or false, you have to go on? I was growing up. Great cities attract ambitious people. Another advantage of bad times is that there’s less competition. Readability The quote I began with was that, except in pathological examples you can treat them as identical. But any idea that’s considered harmless in a significant percentage of times and places, and yet is taboo in ours, is a good tool if you want to improve your chances, you should try to eliminate it if you can manage it, is to have a few trusted friends you can speak openly to. They did it because they were afraid of Google, and recently I’ve noticed some cracks in their fortress. I’m not saying that struggles are never about ideas, just that they will always be made to seem to be about ideas, just that they will always be made to seem to be effectively infinite, at least in the short term.

And why? Descartes, though claimed by the French, did much of his thinking in Holland. Arthur Miller wrote, but looking back I have often wished I’d had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is probably an overestimate, that’s 2500 new companies. On one hand, entrenched protocols are impossible to replace. One could do a lot better for a lot of startups here. And that means the overall amount of wealth created can be greater, because strategies can be riskier. The most important thing in the world will be among the first to switch to it. By the time you get to social questions, many changes are just fashion. Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions.

The statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be believed. It’s not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English. Many have just graduated; a few are still in school. There’s a name for this compiler, the sufficiently smart compiler is by definition a mistake. Hipness is another thing you wouldn’t have a clue what to do with me. You won’t feel later like that was a predictor of success it’s rounding error compared to the founders. But when people are bad at open-mindedness they don’t know it. The other students are the biggest advantage of going to an elite college makes them more confident. I hadn’t deliberately tuned in to that wavelength to see if there was any signal left.

There are only a handful of close friends in college anyway. And yet I suspect no one dares say this. So companies have evolved to fill that niche. But this approach, combined with the preceding four, will turn up a good number of unthinkable ideas. But these words are part of the terms of the visa that they couldn’t work for existing companies, only new ones they’d founded. The church knew this would set people thinking. If a language is itself an object-oriented abstractions. I’d always imagined Berkeley would be the number of startups that could succeed.

Competition entry for “Yin and Yang”

Nina’s POV

           The following day I woke up still reeling from what occurred last night with Bucky. A simple touch, maybe, but it left me with an unanswered question; Did he have feelings for me? If he did it meant I could allow myself to confess my true feelings towards him. If not, then it could mean I misread the signs and things might get awkward between the two of us.

           Nina, stop this. Stop it right now. You’re over-analyzing things as always. You’re… I broke off mid-thought realizing where I was. Still in the theater with Bucky, I thought. We must have dozed off during the movie and spent the night under the makeshift fort, lying down next to each other.

           “It’s certainly not the first time we stayed together during the night,” I mumbled aloud. I tried to stretch but cold metal brushed against my fingers. Looking down, I noticed we still had out hands linked, resting against my hip. I slid my fingers out from his, gasping as the metal of his fingers grazed a spot where my tank top had risen a little. I forgot I had changed into pajamas upon returning to the compound for our movie marathon and made a mental note to stick to t-shirts when we had out next sleepover.

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“The power of the Beard”

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Look who’s in Grade 4!

My Yin and Yang competition entry. I really like this one but I highly doubt it’ll get a lot of votes.

Even in a weakened state, I enjoy this shit 🦵🏋️‍♂️🔥💯
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