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lifelong quest for self-improvement

May 22

Ego Check

I was feeling smug about how productive I was today - went to the dentist and was congratulated on how healthy my teeth and gums are, almost finished my chapter draft, only watched one episode of Midsomer Murders, making a pie for dinner - then I remembered that on Monday I literally swallowed a fly when I was yawning and I fell down Allenby Terrace resulting in a shin-sized bruise.


May 11

Mothers’ Day

Right now it’s 1:20am on Mothering Sunday and against my better judgement here I am writing to you,. I’ve already texted my dear mum but she is definitely asleep. I was just trawling the internet so that I wouldn’t dream of ‘In Cold Blood’ tonight, which…

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Freaks and Geeks is James Franco’s redemption

I know the title of this has got you all worried that I’m going to attempt something I’m very bad at: being culturally relevant. And, full disclosure, I am pretty uninformed on issues of popular culture. But to my credit (if I don’t say so myself) I pay a…

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May 7
So on our floor of von zedlitz we’ve had a bit of trouble with Someone over zealously overfilling the zip. The notes about water level have been polite, with humorous animal pics, or witty Shakespeare quotes, and now this one. Note the water level.

So on our floor of von zedlitz we’ve had a bit of trouble with Someone over zealously overfilling the zip. The notes about water level have been polite, with humorous animal pics, or witty Shakespeare quotes, and now this one. Note the water level.


May 2
“All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party to the lawsuit.”

Simone de Beauvoir, quoting Poulain de la Barre, wrote in an epigraph to The Second Sex in 1949


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May 1

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Apr 25

A Conversation with my Mother

Mum: “So what toot did you spend all your money on at Briscoes?”
Me: “I’ve tidied up! I was buying storage solutions for all my stuff!”
Mum: “I know a storage solution! It’s called the bin!”

 I did not inherit my love of storage solutions from my mother.


Apr 17

It’s about hearts, not parts.

Last night Aotearoa became the 13th country in the world and the first from the Asia-Pacific region to legalise same-sex marriage. The law will be in effect from August. And I’m not ashamed to admit I wept a little at the sheer beauty of this video.

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Remember Me?

Full disclosure, I’ve started this post about four times now, and deleted the sentence, disheartened, before returning to another episode of whatever tv show has been soothing my nerves. So now it’s been, literally, months since my last entry, and even…

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