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Plus ça change

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

I first started blogging in 2004. I was twenty years old, in my last year of college and had no idea what I was going to do once I grow up.
Since then, I’ve lived in two countries, in three different cities, moved four apartments and now, five years later, I’m a student again and still [...]

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Every day at 3.30pm

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The sun shines through the corner office and hits me in the eye.
Sun worshipper that I am, I enjoy seeing its gold orange glow reflected off the modern steel and glass structure opposite the window, and I imagine briefly, that I am sunning myself on some tropical island..
And I wish I could exchange the tweed [...]

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Of the small and sundry

Monday, December 10, 2007

There is a strange pleasure in the repetition of manual tasks.
In the slicing of an apple for instance.
The knife poised expectantly above the freshly washed skin. Leaping, almost, out of my hand in an eagerness to slice through the firm red fruit.
Thick creamy slices edged in deep maroon.
Or in the crispness of a freshly ironed [...]

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