Road to Steemfest: Breaking the Ice (+ramblings from Krakow)

Oh boy, here we are: the final week before Steemfest, and now we're really getting to the meat and bones by breaking through the shallow ice of our surfaces. I like it. When we strip down pre-emptively, there's nothing to be afraid anymore.

Oh, I forgot to mention yesterday due to being so tired.

I'm already in Krakow!

^{in a hostel in a 10 people bedroom with a couple shamelessly kissing each other}

^{Blame @anomadsoul for giving you my grumpy face as a thumbnail.}

Though I'm not getting crazy here or anything, in fact, I'm planning to do the opposite and gather as much strength as possible.

So, my plan for today is to play, what I would call, "a game of Finn". You might already know what kind of game that would be, but let me clear the rules just in case: you avoid social situations, and eye contact, because eye contact is the number one reason to accidentally get into a conversation so it should be avoided. Luckily I have natural talent for this, being a Finn myself (hence the name of the game).

But don't worry, I have a clear rational for my actions. (I'm pretty sure I have said that exact thing not long ago. Right, the skateboard and the dried fruit. Rational indeed.) I'm depriving myself from social situations, simply because time spent alone also increases my appetite for interaction.

So don't worry, I will not act asocial when I meet you, at least I will do my best, I promise!

Talking about appetite, the other part of the "recharging batteries" plan is to eat well today. That might disturb the first part of the plan, because I do have to get some groceries. Luckily the cashiers here don't always even say "hi" (or "cześć").

Talking of food and language, in the case that we will go eat to a restaurant, I've been learning some essentials, like jestem głodny, "I'm hungry" and jem dużo, "I eat a lot", so that I will get an appropriate dish.

Anyway, I've been rambling way too long by now, let's get into the topic.

1.- Tell us your most embarrasing moment in life.

This must be the time when I got a panic attack at school on eighth grade. It was one of those situations in school where you have to keep a presentation of topic x in front of the class. Well, at some point I just froze forgetting everything I was supposed to say. My anxiety went through the roof whilst I'm thinking how stupid and awkward and gringe-worthy I'm looking. Somehow, though, I still managed to make it through, but after the presentation I was in extreme stress mode, barely holding it together. But when I was sitting in the diner (luckily it wasn't lunch time) one obnoxious girl came asking what went into me during the presentation. I was still in panic and shaking, and that moment was the last bullet: I started crying uncontrollably. The last supporting pillar keeping up the facade was kicked down following with a complete breakdown in the middle of the school.
One teacher eventually saw this and took me away from the diner to get to the curator. When she asked what happened, I couldn't even answer because I was still crying hysterically.

This whole thing was witnessed by my friend who's a bro and realized what happened to me and played it cool. Even a good friend of mine from primary school came comforting me, even though we had been distanced from each other since, kudos to him. The girl, though, fleed right away, luckily. Probably realized that it was a question that would've been best left unasked.

2.- If you were stranded in a deserted island with 3 Steem Fest attendees, who would they be and why?

I'll have to go with @tarazkp, because in the case we would be about to die due to starvation, at least the last moments would be spent well, because he can always come up with something interesting to say.

I must say that @honeydue, would be my second choice, simply because we get along pretty well. I've even managed to get her attracted to the poetic nature of Finnish profanity. Maybe that's my real motive for bringing @tarazkp, to get him Finnished for good with the help of @honeydue after I've converted her ;)

Olisi se jo korkea aika hallita suomi 15:n vuoden jälkeen, Taraz!

For the third guy I must say @anomadsoul. This is for the reason that, depending on the size of the island, I'm anticipating of eventually getting anxious to get the hell out of there, and I can't imagine a better person who'd start feeling the same way than Eric who'd probably be down with the plan of building a raft with me :D

3.- As thumbnail of your post, make a funny face.

Gave you the picture already, now you can meme me.

4.- If you had one superpower (any superpower), what would it be, why, and how would you use it during Steem Fest?

It would probably be the ability of being completely unaffected by the lack of sleep. In other words, my brain would have the ability to repair itself while awake, because that's the function of sleeping (at least one of them).

This way I could maximize the time spent with the people during the Steemfest without the cost of quality that inadequate sleep might cause.

5.- If you had to pick one Steemian for a summer fling story, who would it be?

Oh, so a love story, eh? I'm a hopeless romantic idealist whose imagination starts running wild way too easy, so I have to tame those thoughts to not create expectations to get disappointed from the reality. And that reality is, that throughout my whole life I've managed to avoid relationships and romances. Yeah, I know, I'm still young and so forth...

I might be taking myself too seriously here, but I can't give any name here, sorry.

Edit.

FUCK IT! I'm just gonna go ahead and say @honeydue. Yes, she was already featured in the island, but hey, what can you do; We're both young, we're both beautiful, and more importantly, we're both Steemians who hate people and have weirdly surprisingly similar views on certain things. Is there a better premise than that for a summer fling?

Ok, now I definitely need that shot of tequila.

And your fat vote @anomadsoul!

I know I "cheated" a little by adding it as an edit, but I'm sure in the next RTSF compilation you can name all the people who nominated their Steemcrush so that we will all know each other's crushes and tease about them.

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That is it! Now I'm just anxiously waiting for you guys to arrive here!