Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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 Been about a tenday since my last update.  I'd say if you're following this, you can expect that kind of posting frequency, possibly even less.

Something that the digital nomad subreddit often says about this lifestyle is that it's really just having a daily life from different places.  Sure, you're in one country one day and a totally different country a couple days later, but for the month or three or eight between those relocations...you're just doing a job, having hobbies, going out or staying in or whatever.  The influencers that try to paint it as working from a beach or sightseeing every day or whatever, like most influencers, are painting a completely unrealistic, fantasy view of it.

 So it is with me.  I haven't posted because honestly there's nothing to post about.  I wake up, feed myself a bit, do some work, and play video games or watch something.  A couple times a week I have pole class.  There may come places where I feel more comfortable venturing out and exploring more, or finding other groups for other activities, or just generally figuring out how to be more social while still being true to myself - the club and bar scene is so not me, after all, since I don't drink and don't like loud places with chaotic conversational stuff and so on.  Part of all this might be connecting with other nomads through the various groups and such that exist, but even then, I feel like I'm weird enough compared to the typical person, even the typical nomad, that I'm never sure how to approach that without meeting people I have nothing else in common with.

Never know until I try.

And the other part of the issue is, I'm still learning how to live in this lifestyle.  I'm booking a month in any given place because I haven't yet settled into the idea of how much I should like somewhere, even as I find myself living pretty much the same as I did in the last place.  That can safely be projected forwards: when I'm in Kazakhstan, I'll likely live much as I did in Georgia, which will probably be much as I live today in Bulgaria.  The life of a homebody hermit doesn't really care where it takes place, and since all but two of my primary hobbies are done at home (and one, D&D, requires a group of nerds with strong enough English skills that we can muddle through together) it doesn't much matter.
Point is, I book short stays still and that means I don't bother really settling in and forming local links.  Nothing wrong with that, but I think my approach could be improved.  All part of the process of adapting to a completely new lifestyle.

At any rate.  Walking home from pole class the other day, I took a different route than normal so I could pop into IKEA and buy a new grocery bag since my old one, as you can see, finally gave out.  I came across a neat little park with walking trails and pavilions/grills/picnic/barbecue stuff.  There was also this display about Bulgarian embroidery which sort of hints at the history of the country that I've not, quite frankly, tried to learn.  Another thing that will come as I learn to better navigate this lifestyle - more investment in discovering the country on a deeper level.

As a final note for today, I've decided to move my pole videos over to Instagram.  This keeps them in their own place as well as allowing me to link them from a platform slightly better designed for them than Imgur.  Also allows you, dear reader, to decide if you want to see those by going there and following that, rather than links here or having them jumpscare you while scrolling through the posts/dumps on Imgur.

Just don't accuse me of being an influencer myself.  That's not the life for me. 

2 comments:

  1. I did not have any luck finding pole videos on Instagram. I'm sure it's me.

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    1. I checked the link in an incognito mode browser and my page did come up. I think you need an account to actually view any of them. As far as finding that 'genre' in general, I honestly don't know Instagram well enough to suggest but I'd think a search for "pole dancing" or similar would come up with hundreds, thousands of results. It's a popular thing to try to build interest/engagement/audience through.

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 Been about a tenday since my last update.  I'd say if you're following this, you can expect that kind of posting frequency, possibl...