Good thing about the financial struggle is that I am losing weight. I spoke about wanting to lose weight and the Lord sent my way the only method that has ever truly worked

Breaking news: one old fart congratulated another old fart on his bday. Wow.

There are things to admire about America, but it sometimes scares me, too

Su gimtadieniu! @dov.bsky.social

I need a job. I love teaching, but the bills also need to be paid and my business has suffered from huge blows over the last months. But atp it seems like a mission impossible in this country :") idk

Beans and egg in the morning. I am about to start apologising for everything

People - almost a decade younger than me - keep asking if I am undergraduate, I guess I don’t look that bad

Next friday will try to open a bank account in Finland… again

Idk if it’s the city or the amount of fellow immigrants, but it’s much easier to speak Finnish in Helsinki than in Tampere. Ppls here are either used to someone struggling to speak, occasionally switching to English& back, butchering the grammar, or they just dgaf, but it’s nice

Mother has been trying to make amends without apologising for abusive language the other day. I am not letting her brush it off. It feels awful and scary to realise she has no other person left, but at the same time standing up for myself heals me. When she hangs up, I feel good.

Saw this under a positive post about AI art

“Immigrants from Muslim countries” is bs. Hating Muslims for their religion is already wrong, but that claim is wrong for whole other reasons. I have a Pakistani friend at the uni and, guess what? She’s Christian. There are Christians in ‘Muslim’ countries.

To, ale jakbyście kiedyś mieli ciągoty do nauki nowego języka - litewski jest przepiękny. Gramatyka wprawdzie trudna, ale wymowa to prawdziwe tango dla języka. Wszystko co litewskie jest w jakiś sposób magiczne 💕

Saulė / Saule@sankuperis.bsky.social · last wk.

October is going to be financially brutal and merciless. I won’t ask for money, but if anybody wants to learn or anybody knows somebody who wants to learn Lithuanian, I am fully booked, but I would be happy if people subscribed to my Patreon! patreon.com/LithuanianAS

An excellent teacher! Lessons have been fun, just challenging enough to keep me trying harder, and based on vocabulary that I actually use.

Saulė / Saule@sankuperis.bsky.social · last wk.

October is going to be financially brutal and merciless. I won’t ask for money, but if anybody wants to learn or anybody knows somebody who wants to learn Lithuanian, I am fully booked, but I would be happy if people subscribed to my Patreon! patreon.com/LithuanianAS

I was almost asleep when I started to get degrading messages from my mother. She said I was the worst that happened to her and her bloodline and that she was cutting me off. Mind you I need to get up at 8 tomorrow. I am sleep deprived and she knows it.

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Capital punishment is stupid. After today it looks even more stupid.

A client asked me to translate few paragraphs. We have an hourly rate and that would have taken me less than an hour. I rejected it and said it doesn’t pay off for me to do it. I am already swamped. I thought of Dolly Parton and how she did business as a woman. She is så impactful.

My brain is fried, I still have one lesson to prepare for (I am teaching), still 6 pages of ethnographic methods to read🫠

No matter how hard a woman studies a field, there will be an unc who knows better without even googling it

Same here. Too many overly confident people who can make any discussion unnecessarily toxic.

People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · last wk.

I love blocking both sides of an argument for being insufferable

I love blocking both sides of an argument for being insufferable

Looking forward to the elections in Finland. They have these markets which the Lithuanian law would consider illegal, they try to pretty much bribe u with free coffee or sweets. I am looking forward to it, because it's fun when they try to be nice to you and then you go 'Mulla ei oo äänioikeutta'.😎

You couldn’t make this shit up: Finnish digital services declined my permanent address due to the… 2024 application. There is 2026 application that has been accepted. The clerk opened a wrong application and I am being bullied by this happy country again

My dad who passed away 14 yrs ago last night ❤️‍🩹I remember how I was angry at myself for being a snarky teenager w him, because how was I stupid to think he’d never die. Today, I think it’s okay if a teenager doesn’t consider this possibility. They shouldn’t. Rock in peace, dad (he played prog rock)

I woke up from a nightmare. Cried. Couldn’t fall asleep again. Checked the date - Sep 28th. My dad passed away Sep 29th, 2012. This date still haunts me. Sometimes it comes and goes, other times I become an anxious mess around those days.

Everyone is always loaded with money and party all the time on Instagram, I kinda hate it there

My Academic English course is only 2 credits and I dread those two credits like hell😞struggling with the homework

Today I had that awkward dinosaur moment when I was the only one in my group whose birth year starts with 19** (we were practicing Finnish)

I think we have a huge problem with people throwing big names. Supposedly, that big name alone backs your argument. Even if that argument of yours is nonsense or that big name never even said it in the first place. We made jokes about it in 00s, but the faster the internet, the worse this gets