So, the Olympics Opening Ceremony. I didn’t want to watch it. I thought; surely if it appeals to so many people there must be something wrong with it – on top of being really uncool? I’d heard enough about The […]

Now, my current boss used to be an actor, apparently. Occasionally I get to see him in action with a colleague as they practice a French role play, together, which they will perform at the next staff meeting. […]

‘The café’s packed full of those summer school kids’ is the way we greet one another at work with contempt in the summer months since the university where I work is used for summer school lessons and lunch. But […]

Disillusioned long ago by Capitalism you look to Marx’s Capital but think, ‘f*** me, that’s a big book.’ Bearing this in mind you go to Marxism Festival 2012 for answers …
Man has remade himself
He looked like […]

It was last week that I was standing in the dole queue. But it is today, one week later, jogging clothes clad and walking my girlfriend up to work in a beautiful kind of sunlight, that I really feel ‘unemployed’.  […]

When I was just a girl at school – no, this isn’t going to be a tale of laments and regrets … actually, it sort of is – I remember boys or ‘nice strong lads’ were always requested when there was a box of books […]

‘Oh. Fuck.’ was my first thought this morning. The night before I had embarked on a persuasive offensive to convince a friend that up and leaving to Japan was a good idea – the only way to go. The upsides just […]

One of the worries I had when I graduated was, ‘I hope my brain doesn’t just … die’. With such anxiety carefully nibbling away at my head and sometimes making an appearance as a pain down my left arm, I resolved […]

‘The urge to … mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress’.

Sitting on the grassy patch in front of Oxford Brookes main campus entrance was a congregation of tents decorated with […]

I don’t recommend, and neither do I condone, harbouring an ‘illegal tenant’. However, I have been one. Instead of finding a room each, I squatted with ‘some girl’ in the same bedroom in a house with our friends. […]

There is a game we play. A game called life. All you need to succeed in it is a ticket in the form of conformity.
Subtle undercurrents of manipulation
She could have been a very interesting person … if it […]

I’m not saying I’ve been appropriately wooed enough to jump into bed with Girls, yet – I’m still waiting for that profound realisation that we share the same music taste after years of teenage despair feeling like […]

Last night I took myself down – somewhat whimsically (and pleasantly impressed by my spontaneity) – to Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre to satisfy my curiosity surrounding one of the events in Oxford Brookes University […]

I’m not going to let myself get too carried away – maybe I’m just that kind of girl – but President Obama’s recent statement in support of marriage equality is kind of special. He is the first US president to […]

Time to say …
Goodbyes are never easy; neither emotionally nor technically. When it matters I never take them quite seriously enough, taking the proximity for granted and that, someday, I will meet this person […]

It feels like one of those annoyingly abstract concoctions of about a million different emotions, and yet, it might just be a very treatable condition.
A Mild Case of the QLC
I’d been waiting for the sun to come […]