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Breakaway
I have just spent two hours listening to a man spouting some of the most hateful bullshit I’ve ever heard in my life, without being permitted to say anything or give an opinion in return. He was good-looking and I’m an idiot, which is how I ended up sitting down. Forgive me. This man is…
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Unfunny
This is not going to be a jolly sort of post. I’m also going to include a trigger warning. It’s freaking 2am again, and I can’t stop thinking about an email I received two days ago. I’ve been tossing and turning, needing to write about it, so figured I’d give up on sleep until it was…
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Romantic Despair
It’s a fairly normal day here in Belgium. That is to say, my housemates are eating, it’s raining outside, and I’m catching up on uni readings (aka ‘procrastinating’). I was idly wondering to myself this morning whether such procrastinating would result in an official Valentine’s Day post—I’m (perhaps obviously) not a V-Day kind of girl, especially…
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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…
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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…