Hellooo! I swapped my social media for this blog. I don't enjoy the algorithms and the endless ads and the way being on the social apps makes me feel. But...
Usually all it takes to escape the kind of pervasive body-critical content that the social platforms are riddled with is logging off. You log off and you stop seeing videos on "how to stop being skinny fat" or "what to eat to lose 5kg in time for summer" or "what I eat in a day to stop being fat". I find that once I log off I stop thinking about myself quite so much. I stop thinking about the size…
As I mentioned after my trail run , Kyle suggested a few weeks ago that we go for an early morning swim. In the middle of winter. It was freezing. And yet I felt pretty good after it. So we've kept doing it. One day of the weekend we go for a very cold swim once we're both up. The goal is to spend at least five minutes in the water 1 . I think you definitely feel better (and a lot colder) after…
It's been over a month now since I logged out of Instagram, and lately I've been trying to focus on multitasking less . That probably sounds silly - because who doesn't love being able to do multiple things at once? - but what I mean by it is: less phone use while watching a TV show, less putting a video on as background noise while I study, etc. I feel that the whole "our brains weren't designed…
Over the weekend I ticked off a goal I've been working toward for some time: a 22km trail run. My thoughts during the run included a lot of: Holy hell, I never want to see another hill again. Wow, this place is stunning ! That was a great orange slice. I hope the next aid station has oranges. Why is everyone on the return frowning? Is it that bad up ahead? Oh, yep. It is that bad. I get it now. I…
My clingy ex won't leave me alone. They email me. Sometimes up to six times a day, but always a minimum of three times a day. They're always trying to get me to come back. Always telling me that I'm missing out by not being with them. Telling me how much better my life would be if I go back to them. How much fun I could be having. You all know my ex, so I don't mind showing you what their emails…
A couple of weeks ago there was a conversation at my book club that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. We had just read 'Yellowface' by R. F. Kuang, which follows the story of a middling author who takes her dead friend's unpublished manuscript about Chinese labourers and publishes it, passing the work off as her own. At each book club we discuss the book for an hour or two and then we go…
One of my big goals for 2026 was to read more. As a kid/teen I devoured books. I'd read anything I could get my hands on. This year I wanted to read like that again. So I set myself what I thought was a reasonable goal - read 35 books this year. Turns out I wasn't nearly ambitious enough. We've just hit the halfway mark and I have already read 35 books. So maybe I'll try to hit 70? Anyway. Here's…
Logged off, but still online.
Recently, I had my five year anniversary with the city I moved to in 2021. Having an anniversary with a city probably sounds pretty dramatic. But I'm a nostalgic person and, honestly, this city changed my life . I moved here in between COVID lockdowns. I had no idea what I was doing and I knew no one. I just had a good feeling about this place. Five years later and I've built a life that I really…