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Laura.be
I’m in Belgium! The lapse in posting about it wasn’t so much my getting on a hijacked train and ending up in Azerbaijan as it was my laptop dying. Again. I arrived here ten days ago now, and so far, it’s been good (albeit exceptionally busy!). Arriving into Gare du Midi (the Brussels version this time,…
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Oklahoma City
Okay, so firstly, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with Oklahoma. Nor does it have anything to do with the US. Nor even travelling, for that matter—instead, it’s about yet another stupid idea that I had. My great idea—pauses to groan and face-palm—was to try online dating. Oh, how I wish I were kidding. I mean, I…
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TIFU
Sigh. It’s poem time, guys—and for those who don’t know, ‘tifu’ stands for ‘today I fucked up’. And I did. Lesson learned: never ever use your photos from facebook anywhere else. _____________________________________________________ I decided one day it was finally time, For a new adventure (which I’ll tell you in rhyme). After four years of single, and in…
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Take Me to Church
One of my housemates is currently looking for work, and so each morning last week he greeted me with this song, belting out the only words he knew (“take me to church”): Today it was stuck in my head so I looked up the lyrics, only to find (much to my amusement) that the song isn’t about a…
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Sex and Power
There’s a famous quote by Oscar Wilde, which says that “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” I’ve found myself thinking about this, after just now simultaneously having a conversation with Mr Belgium about love and romance, and reading an article on power politics. There are traditionally three main…