Things

Hello.

I had a few ideas what to talk to you about today.

The first thing that came to mind is something about the biology again, since I have an exam next week and so am forced to read the book anyway. But about as fast as I came up with that, I decided I've been talking about that too much lately, so I'll think of something else.

Then I thought I'd talk to you about Buffy, because I just finished the whole series (I've had surprisingly a lot of extra time considering I had to have a busy autumn), but you haven't seen it, so I can't talk about it without spoiling.

I also thought I could talk about next week, since for the first time since you came back we'll both be at our parents' place at the same time. But then I realised I don't actually have anything to say about it.

Then this month's Tiede came, and I thought I'd find something interesting there. There was one article about a cyber war that was written like it was probably early 2019. Basically it was quite close to a scifi short story about how, since everything is controlled automatically or via internet, during the last couple of years (as in in a few years into the future from today) hackers had been hacking into people's automatic insulin pumps giving them way too much insulin or their pacemakers giving the heart an electric shock. Or just shutting down the whole city's traffic lights, which causes a chaos, or the country's power plants and forcing people to live without electricity or heat. Which is kinda crap, especially in Finland where even warm winters are cold if you don't have heat inside.
It was pretty interesting. And made me a little worried about people being dependent on electricity, and, more importantly, becoming dependent on internet based programs that keep things going. Because that just makes causing chaos a little too easy for a skilled hacker. Not that I'd actually know much about how things work in places that need to keep running right now. Are the control systems becoming more internet-based?
It also made me think that's the kind of journalism that I could be interested in doing. This thought coming from the fact that on Thursday we will be (at school) talking about feature articles, and then we have to write one, and I have no idea about what, because features aren't exactly something that I'm interested in writing, or even less reading. Except apparently if they're done about something interesting. Since I'd say this cyber war thing is a feature article, since I don't really know what else it would be. But yeah, science journalism is a field I could actually see myself working in. Which is rare.
Anyway, there was something to that. But still, it wasn't enough for a whole blog post, so I moved on to think about what else I could write about.

Next a part of me wanted to talk about Christmas. Because it's coming up and is here soon. And then I went ahead and looked at the calendar and realised that it's mid-October. Meaning over two months until Christmas. Just apparently something inside me thinks it's a month further in time now than it actually is.
So I figured Christmas isn't a thing to talk about quite this early in the year.
Oh, but speaking of Christmas, when are we going to get the Cinnamon-illustrations? You've been working on them for nine months or so. I'd like to finally see them.

I also felt like I wanted to talk to you about how I ordered myself a set of Eolian talent pipes, but I knew you wouldn't understand what I'm talking about, since you still haven't read The Name of the Wind. Or show you a picture of a pair of trousers I made, because I used some hours sewing a couple of footprints onto them by hand, but that's not really enough for a whole blog post again.

Then I noticed, that since I've spent a little too long today watching the end of Buffy, because it was kinda hard to not watch the last few episodes in a row, it was a lot later than I would've liked. I was planning to work some in the evening, and I have a skype-meeting later, and I still need to study some biology, and then there's the blog post I have no topic for that I need to write before the day is due.

Though honestly, I don't understand. How difficult can it be to come up with something interesting to talk about once a week? Even a little bit of something is god enough, and yet, every week I face the same problem. I seem to have nothing to say. About anything.
Seriously, the world is filled with interesting things. Where are they all hiding? Or why are all the interesting things I know things that I don't find good topics for blog posts.
Or is it just that all the things that I'm excited about don't feel to me like things you would be interested to read about?
There are so many interesting things in the world. So why is it so damn hard to find something to talk about?

I just don't get it.
But I really do have to study some biology, so I'll just hear from you on Friday.
Bye now.

~matu