Bolt

It's past half past midnight, but i didn't do my writing today (well, not here, i did do a bit of writing... 1600 word-ish, for a project), so i can't go to sleep. I could, but that would not be fair. I should really stop working before 11 if i want to get to sleep my 8 hours a night (and they're not even enough for my brain, it needs time to catch up with all the stuff that i think of during the day). Still, there's not much to say for today except the fact that i didn't actually go for a ride in the morning because i was lazy, needed a good shower and a friend called me, telling me she'd be over in one and a half hours. Not nearly enough time to eat, wash and take a ride. So i just did some stuff around the house that i don't really remember clearly. I think i read some stuff about a career in aviation and how that's getting to a sad end in the USA (hopefully, not in the rest of the world as well). That took quite a while. I wanted to know how soon pilots retire. Apparently, some don't even get enough money put to the side to get a retirement fund. How is that possible? Here in Romania we must pay 31% of our salaries (or income, in the more special cases, like mine) for the pension fund. You don't get to say 'nah, maybe next month'. The old people need their tiny pensions that they get from the working people because someone ate up their actual retirement funds (and probably built their own house on the beach/in the mountains) and now there is no money left for old people. Except that 31%. The people who think that money gets invested are fools. It's a joke. There is no investment in this country. Which is why i have a bad feeling about working in this country. Which is why i'm thinking about leaving. I didn't want to, but i may have to. At least until i can get a good enough income online to be able to work from practically anywhere i have an internet connection (and even without one, for creative writing you don't really need internet - actually i do, because i'm a compulsive reader, but i could deal with that). And then i'll be able to implement my plan, which will have been written in my super awesome book. Speaking of which, the main teacher characters are actually some people i know and love. Well, the characters will be based on them. I'm sure they wouldn't actually act like i mean them to (well, they might, since i know them pretty well, but i'd rather not make a caricature out of actual human beings that i respect as a whole). A short list would be (i need names for them, blah):
my character, obviously - the queen bee - the crazy lady who loves chickens, can't breathe properly, likes to read, but is really pretentious about what she reads, can recommend literature to read/go to to any person interested in any subject (is a sort of happy combination between google and wikipedia, but without the actual details), loves to hike, even though she's not that good of an athlete, teaches dance classes and breathing lessons alongside biology and geomorphology and is always looking at ways of improving oneself (none of that self-help/dezvoltare personală stuff that's been haunting us for the last century, just the actual thing);
her best friend - the hyperbunny - a tiny woman who's always on the move, gets crazy ideas for people to implement (and they turn out pretty funny in the end, actually), is like a magnet for kids and adults alike and completes the first character - actually, they complete each other and communicate easily, by making fun of everything that is wrong with society and things in general - she doesn't listen most of the time, unless you have something new or exciting to share, in which case she'll share your enthusiasm; she's an everflowing source of energy, unless she really dislikes/doesn't understand what she's doing; she teaches German and non-formal education, she makes up games and adapts games from past experiences and, of course, invents all sorts of crazy things to do;
the engineer - he likes to take on challenges and show everyone that they actually mean nothing - what do you mean it's difficult to get in there? i'm in already - he learned from an early age that you only succeed with hard work and has a few achievements to show for it; he can teach you how to see things in a builder's world, but he's also soft inside and needs a lot of attention; he loves being around kids and has a sort of a 'recipe for success' that he's willing to share with the most hard working of them; he teaches maths and physics, but only to those who care about these subjects; he also has hands-on classes where he builds flying stuff with the kids.

I'll stop at these three for now, i'll take it off with the others tomorrow. I can't believe how easy this feels...