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On having your soul crushed
It's 11pm and you're still in the office. By your count you've worked at least 50 hours this week and it's only Thursday. You've been working on a big piece of work, it's important, you feel like you've put your blood, sweat and tears into it, trying to ready it for a presentation to the boss. But you already know you've wasted your time.
here's hoping for 2017
So I keep coming across the phrase 'New Year New Me', and although it's shrouded in cliche, I like what it represents. If like me you found 2016, especially the second half, to be an unconscionable beast with a mind of it's own, impacting negatively on your personal life and general view of society, the opportunity to start again is enticing as fuck.
bracing for the cold
Midnight, or 12.04am to be exact. The Piccadilly line is taking an age, and there are people scattered on the platform. I'm exhausted, in the way that's starting to feel more and more like London.
the shark
"Home is where the heart is."
I have always struggled with this phrase. It sounds simple enough but actually, I'm not sure it means anything more than "Home is where you like to sleep", or "Home is where the person you like, likes to sleep"; but that sounds a bit like the mantra of a stalker, so maybe it's not quite as simple as that.
11.40pm
It’s 11.40pm. I’ve been circling my living room for the past ten minutes, humming the same tune over and over again, with a bottle of whiskey perched casually under my arm. The pacing is self-soothing, as is the humming.
on dealing with difficult people
I am a difficult person. I say that not to be self-deprecating, but because it is a fact.
blocked
I’ve been telling everyone that I have writer's block, and I do. It’s true. But it is not, as they say, the whole truth.
what was I thinking?
What a week it has been. Britain lost its collective mind and left the European Union, I emigrated to France for three days, and the US nominated Donald Trump as their next President of the United States!
