No Longer Scraping by on SMV

The writing on this one is a bit crude because I’m frustrated as hell as I write, and I don’t want to edit the text In the span of just two days, I had three occasions where I felt a deep disdain for women: An encounter with an annoying career woman at my co-working An insufferable date A date that flaked without cancelling The career woman was ugly and the story boring....

February 5, 2025 · 3 min · 486 words

Russian Near Miss Night Train

After working in Vienna for a week, I was scheduled to take a night train to Berlin on Friday the 13th. Boarding the train, I notice that I have the whole cabin to myself. The lights in my cabin were very dim, though. Train cabins consist of a small central table, and six beds stacked along the walls in pairs of three. Before I enter the cabin, I hear a woman with a thick Russian accent: “Excoose meh, can you halp mee store zis luggage, pliez?...

December 13, 2024 · 3 min · 612 words

Learning to Set Boundaries

Or how not to get laid in Warsaw: a warning to my future self to not be a moron. Wednesday 14 August was the last night of my first Polish Euro jaunt. I had one lay but, alas, no Polish flag. My last chance would be tonight: a date at 11 pm with a tanned Polish girl, after she would return from the cinema. My two daygame mates had left, so I was sitting outside a bar on Nowy street by myself....

August 19, 2024 · 5 min · 907 words

Obsessiveness & Impact on Professional Life

I’ve always had an obsessive personality. Whether it was study, games or work, I always sacrificed all other parts of my life to excel at the object of my obsession at the time. Without a doubt, daygame is my current obsession: it’s by a far the activity I’ve spent the most time on this year, and have read the most about. Although the impact on my personal life was modest, the impact on my work has been substantial....

August 7, 2024 · 2 min · 334 words