The Cycles of (My) Life

Life goes in cycles. I sometimes think that I'm the only one who notices this, but then I realize that is a silly thing to think. However, I might be the only one to sayt this online.

So what are my cycles? They go like this, but not in order:

1.) The quest for learning Icelandic.
2.) The quest for learning something new.
3.) A desire to catch up with long lost friends.
4.) A desire to improve myself in some way.
5.) A few nights of little sleep.
6.) Normalacy.

This usually happens every three months. I'm at the part where I lose sleep for a while and don't know what to do.

Tonight, I started learning Icelandic again. I also have been learning Italian. One thing I have to say that I never noticed before was that Icelandic and Italian verbs don't do any "am-ing", "is-ing", or "are-ing", but rather stay in the infinitive form of "to be." I think that's a huge step after eight years of fooling around here and there.

But I think it will be an important breakthrough in my desire to learn. Next comes verb conjugation. Ugh.

I've only been studying Italian for a few weeks and I'm picking up a lot. A funny thing happened, though. I've been thinking of Icelanic phrases as well. So I'll think of a simple sentance and think the words in Italian, then Icelandic.

I'm pretty proud of this so far.

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As far as work goes, it's been great. We just finished pre-sale so now there are tons of clothes everywhere in bags just begging to be fitted (and hopefully kicked out) of all the little corners in the store. I get scared when I see a lot of backlog. But I guess it's up to me to work on that kind of stuff.

I think that now I'm moved into my new place I'll be spending more time with this journal. At least I hope so.

I also hope to run into some Icelanders soon.