News: What messes with your head

Message anxiety

A close up of the iPhone home screen showing applications.

Sometimes messaging back can be anxiety-inducing.

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The third place

A bookstore.

Where do you go to immerse yourself in the human condition?

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Dear Diary...

Last night, watching someone's 'reading my old diary entries' video prompted me to do the same. I got out my old journals, and wanted to find some resemblance with my old self. In the pages, I discovered dream anecdotes, meditations on my current reads, brief allusions to the stress of an essay, and of course, declarations of being in love. Sure, there was something naive about it—as if I was aware that I would look back on these one days, I seemed determined to narrativise my days and feelings—but there were some sentiments that I felt truly thrived from being written down.

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On volunteering

We’re nearly right bang in the middle of winter now and boy is it getting chilly! One of the things I love about winter though is that the cold seems to propel me gently into a sort of quiet – nearly a hibernation. (Note: If only it were possible to hibernate when you’re nearing the end of your HDR candidature!) This is my quiet season and I do enjoy it.

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I’m on a buying ban 

Person paying Google Pay.

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an avid shopper.

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Keep going

Okay, so for the past eight weeks now, I’ve relentlessly worked on my doctoral thesis. For the most part, I have kept my commitment to myself to write every day – some weekends, I’ve taken a day off. There are days that the writing feels good, not easy, but I feel driven and purposeful. Then there are days that are just completely hard. Putting a couple of sentences feels brutal and almost torturous. And to think this is self-inflicted – I applied to be a Ph.D. student.

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Embracing the ordinary

Purple flowers

I find myself often unable to embrace the routine, everyday activities. 

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Go into it scared

A void.

On getting over the biggest hurdle.

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