On Changing your Life

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more please

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Will do tomorrow. It's bedtime now in Italy.

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Now I can't wait for the rest of this.

[Jay.]

This is good reading.

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I got myself a room in a dive of a hostel in Kings Cross, which is the red-light bar district of Sydney.

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Ha, awesome. I feel like i've stayed in everyone of these. Funkhouse w/ the acid art, the black one on the opposite corner which doubles up as a club and has Miss Backpacker awards and the general ones like Globe Backpackers etc. We shared a room with a painter who had no teeth and a healthly drug addiction. He came back to australia 4 months of the year to work 60 hours a week then live in thailand for the rest.

Kings Cross was awesome, there aren't many places you can see a 45 year old hooker tripping on acid while eating your breakfast.

Back on note, I feel like my life is starting to suck atm since i'm not making any decisions about the direction of my life. Maybe i should start a thread, for 30 days El Diablo Forum gets to plan my life day by day/week by week, you tell me what to do/where to go/things to experience that you think will benefit me, i'll pick the best few and stick to them.

[Runkmud]

Wow great stuff Adsman, more please!

[TyFuji]

"It's bed time here in italy" is such a tease

A+, I hope part of this story involves a stint as a journalist or writer.

[ImsaKidd]

Everyone:

If you have a story like this, post it. I guarantee you it might seem regular or ordinary to you (it's your life after all), but the rest of us will enjoy it. it is pretty damn hard to write a bad life story.

[daryn]

i guess my memory is just better than most but i thought everyone knew adsman was living in italy doing rafting, owns a club

[ryanj247]

i'm making plans now for a big change: (i intend to be soon) moving from vegas to playa del carmen, mexico.

i've only been there once before, for 2 weeks, but i absolutely fell in love with the place.

any advice for me? for example KKF, i'm curious why you choose not to tell anyone what you do? i've been thinking about this, and i guess i had kind of planned on just telling people i meet down there that i play poker online. i figured it would be easiest that way, so that i wouldn't have to be secretive or try to come up with some kind of story...

but yeah, any other thoughts/advice is welcome.

[DrNo888]

Does escaping on a boat and being captured by pirates before getting rescued by coastal guard count as good story?
I've been wanting to write this story, but have forgotten the names of all the cities that it took place in. Gotta do some research and get all the names spelling correct first. Also quite busy at work and Chinese New Year coming up so it may be awhile.
If anyone is familiar with Thai geography, please let me know.

[theBruiser500]

Jay: Do a thread and give my advice priority [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Come visit me in Amherst [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

KKFool: In America is not corny, it won academy awards and deserved them. Also picking up and moving somewhere is not easy, I tried and failed. Also did you write about your life or is that a lie? You like to lie a lot and talk very selectively.

" But I had a new city to explore. I did a lot of walking. I love walking in new cities." - People say this a lot and also say they like to hang out in cafe's and restaurants and watch the city life happen but I find this very boring and unsatisfying. Is anyone else with me on this?

Adsman: When you move from place to place to start a new life, do you find yourself having to deal with a lot of hassles when you move? For instance finding an apt., moving furniture or cleaning out old stuff etc. or maybe it's not a hassle to you. And how much time has it taken you to get comfortable, happy, content in your new life? To make new friends, find good things to do with your times, etc.

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" But I had a new city to explore. I did a lot of walking. I love walking in new cities." - People say this a lot and also say they like to hang out in cafe's and restaurants and watch the city life happen but I find this very boring and unsatisfying. Is anyone else with me on this?


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I'm with you bruiser. I actually love those things, but after about 5 minutes I'm going out of my mind - are we going to *DO* something yet or just sit here?

ps. you're not in SF any more?