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August.

For the last week, I suppose, I have been pondering one thing and one thing almost exclusively (apologies to those I have ignored or cars I have unknowingly walked in front of in the process): is the Internet good? I truly cannot decide. Which is annoying since, at the age of 20, I take pride that [...]

Place.

This morning, as my kitchen was being ripped out by builders, I didn’t get any breakfast, and so at about 4, after a man tried to explain to me why the house was leaking profusely from the side (something about ball-cocks, which took all my energy not to laugh at) I decided it was probably [...]

Crystal.

Due to an argument on BBC Question Time over climate change, I felt the cross compulsion to explain; snow is not an argument against global warming. Listen carefully – as the world warms up, the ice caps melt, this fresh and still rather cold water flows out into the seas, shutting down various ocean currents, one [...]

Juju.

“What? It’s when? 2010? Well why the hell did no one tell me!” I was first going to entitle this post ‘Beginnings.’ but I could practically hear the clichés that would follow. I always liked the word cliché because I liked to believe it was onomatopoeic, and that it derived from the noise people make when they [...]

Throwback.

I think it’s fair to say that I am not looking forward to growing up. I’m not even at terms with the idea that in three months it’ll be 2010. Twenty ten. I’m twenty next. I’m going to insist, at least for the first couple of weeks, that I be Tenteen. I will insist that [...]