Leaving on a jet-plane (hopefully)

In addition to accumulating sex partners, binge drinking, drug use, and learning how to skip classes without the lecturers knowing, most people consider studying abroad to be one of the most important parts of a “well rounded” college education. By attending school in another country, it seems as if one is more well-travelled and well-acquainted [...]

We’ll be singing, when we’re winning

Soundbites: Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
It’s suddenly the second (or third) week of February and the days have been spent either counting down the minutes till the next Tuesday arrives, or being at the mercy of phonecalls. Have found myself constantly thinking of the rhetorical question that G had once asked me: “how long is long when you are [...]

Un garçon pas comme les autres

La première fois que je l’ai vu, j’lui ai seulement dit que j’avais envie de lui
Je suis folle de lui, c’est un garçon pas comme les autres. Mais moi je l’aime, c’est pas d’ma faute. Même si je sais qu’il ne m’aimera jamais

We play hide and seek with trains and sewing machines.

You’re digging a hole and the walls are caving in. I’m trying to breathe behind you, but the air’s getting thin. But I’m still trying to breathe in, I’m still waiting for you to find me. Come find me, won’t you? And you said: “It hasn’t felt like this before. And I know it’s easy [...]

Escape

“I have a tendency to run. I’m warning in you advance, so don’t get mad at me if I do okay?”
“I will chase you if you do. Don’t run.”
Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can’t have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And [...]