quintessentially C

  • Out And About

    Dearest reader, wait… wrong blog. I fear I’ve been gone so long I’ve forgotten how to write my blog. But I’ve not been gone for nothing! Last year I took the internet’s advice and went out to touch grass, and I never went back inside, truly. I’m just starting to have my weekends to myself…

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  • Oh No, Here She Goes Again

    There is beauty everywhere my love,Even in the scariest.If only you will look.And there is ugliness everywhere,But listen love,I am a beautiful thing.I’ll hand you peeled clementines and sliced apples.I’ll come home to you at two on a Thursday night. I’ll stand at your window and I’ll throw pebbles till you let me in, and…

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  • The Damsels Are Defrosting

    First of all, Happy New Year! Second of all, it’s been a long time! I thought about this title while I was out on my hot girl walk last month, and get this, this post was supposed to go out on the first week of March, but I’ve been doing everything but writing so here…

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  • Ah, The Little Pleasures…

    I was writing this and on cue, this cool breeze started blowing into my room, and I had to close my laptop and take a nap, talk about little pleasures. I can go on and on about all my little displeasures of life, but I’m going to take a page from Taylor and choose to…

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  • 6 Adulting Things No One Prepares You For

    And this is only just for phase 1 of adulting… Summer is over, and so it’s time to factory reset to regularly scheduled programming- I mean adulting. Here’s the first adulting lesson I learnt the hard way — That your unemployment phase is one of the best phases of your life, and ironically you might never get…

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  • To The Things that Look Better in Retrospect

    The day the dandelions sprouted, I found myself thinking, there are still beautiful things. That evening, I walked home in a sort of drunken haze Kicking pebbles, spotting angel numbers, colours seemingly brighter than the day before, birds chirping for the first time in months, geese honking, and I thought, If I could paint this…

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  • Everybody Moved On, I Stayed There…

    Have a seat, today I analyse my grief. On a Friday night, I’m sitting on my bed drinking lemon-saturated green tea, with Scenes From a Marriage tirelessly playing on my TV for the 100th time. I think I’m my most introspective on Friday nights that I stay home. There’s something tragically beautiful in knowing that…

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  • In My Graduate Era

    For those that follow me on Twitter or Snapchat, you saw the videos, you saw the tweets, one year after graduating and I can now officially accept I AM NO LONGER A STUDENT. All it took was walking across that stage to end that chapter and dare I say, it was the perfect ending. LOOKING…

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  • My Top 5 For 2020

    2020 has been a mad year… and that’s putting it lightly. I was in this room on Clubhouse and they were asking each of us to rank the year out of 10. There were 2’s and 6’s and 7’s and it got to me and I say 8. Why? They ask, ‘Well, it’s not been…

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