It has been complicated from the first day, when we met under a grapevine to talk about what Thursday nights would look like now. And, 2 years later, it’s still easier to say what they don’t look like, which is almost anything I’ve ever known. Each week we cycle through the same emotions. It is, at any moment, confronting, disquieting and a strange kind of … Continue reading In which we don’t have all the answers…
This blog began as my college experience did, with excitement and rose-coloured glasses. At least, they told me the glasses were rose-coloured – people reassured me it wouldn’t always look so sweet. And I waited to feel it. I posted whimsical pictures of my room and my food and I wrote excited squealy posts about Sydney and I waited for the lustre to fade. And … Continue reading Rose-coloured
So 2 years ago I stalked a chick I’d never met into a toilet which isn’t my usual behaviour, but considering how well it went I’d probably do it again. I have spent just shy of 100 Sundays with her since that inauspicious faux-casual ‘hi’ near the hand basins, and today was the first of all the ones we won’t spend together, which is all … Continue reading Nobody said it was easy…
*we could call this a book review… In July last year I googled a word I didn’t understand, which isn’t something you expect to change your life. The word was ‘mimetic’, which relates to imitation (miming), and somehow, post-google, I ended up in the bowels of Wikipedia, reading about a French philosopher and his ‘mimetic theory’. After 20 minutes of ignoring my assignment I ordered … Continue reading If enthusiasm could substitute for intellect…*
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