When I was in high school I had the most ridiculous crush on this dude from about year eight to year twelve. I was a social pariah, though, and he was a jock, so he never noticed me and to be honest that was OK by me since I was too terrified to talk to [...] Read More…
When I was very young, I imagined the future to be almost a utopia. When I tried to imagine, say, a hundred years into the future, I thought of civilised, peaceful societies of learning and art and prosperity, and free of crime or unhappiness. We would live at one with nature, scientists and artists were [...] Read More…
My old therapist taught me about this thing called cognitive behaviour therapy, and it is where you think of something that is worrying you and try to think of evidence or facts that debunk your fear/anxiety/depressive thoughts etc. In other words, you look at your problems with a critical eye instead of wallowing in them, [...] Read More…
I hung out in Sydney this past weekend for a very brief but quality time with a couple of old mates. First of all, I don’t know if I could live in Sydney, because I am afraid I would possibly become a total consumer and have to wear really trendy clothes and shoes, unlike my [...] Read More…
I keep a lot of lists. Compulsively. Any aspect of my life, you can pretty much rest assured there is a list somewhere within the piles of papers on my messy desk. The most entertaining list that I actively maintain is that of ‘huge turn offs’, or ‘grounds on which I will refuse to even [...] Read More…