A situation report

Who said this drug was OK?

After yet another afternoon fuelled by too much coffee and not enough to eat, I finally decide to do some reading on caffeine.

Procrastination - something to sleep on

For someone who has quite a lot of trouble sleeping, I want to be asleep a surprising amount of the time I am awake.

Warped views and the warping of responses

Recently, Nobel Prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt stood down from his position at University College London after his comments at a conference in Seoul led to widespread outrage in the scientific community.

Different life with benefit of hindsight

This year I am writing an honours dissertation in English literature.

Worse things than living in fear of a quake

I didn't feel the earthquake on Monday night. I was walking to a friend's house after work with headphones on, and so far as I was aware everything was normal and if anything swayed a little I must have just put it down to my faulty eyesight.

Time for men to broaden horizons

Representation of women in the media is something I think about a lot, and it seems like for the last few weeks all anyone has been able to talk about is the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.

Acting without reason can be plain horrifying

This week my classmate gave a presentation on Edgar Allan Poe's horror stories.

Food for thought for city cafes

It's getting to the time of year when I am completely overwhelmed by the number of assignments I have to turn in.

Fashioning an artful response

On the catwalk at the 2014 iD Fashion Show. Photo by Gregor Richardson.

Fashioning an artful response

Fashion week has been and gone in Dunedin, and typically, having missed the opportunity to engage with the fashion industry first hand, I've started thinking about it a week late.

Secret vices of a 20-something woman

I've written before about my love for tacky British crime shows set in sleepy country villages.

Men need to be part of the solution

Last week, Rape Crisis, in conjunction with Dunedin independent art space Fresh 'n Fruity, held a hui in order to facilitate discussion around sexual assault, how best to support those who have been sexually assaulted, and how to help create safer spaces within our community.

Universal language comes even in our dreams

The other night I had a very vivid dream about the clarinet. I haven't played the clarinet since high school, though I do still have a clarinet somewhere among my possessions.

Face it, you don't need chewed gum

At the beginning of this year I had only two goals.

Getting off the fence about taking offence

How many times have you been offended this week?

Short and long of it at war on my head

I have only been to the hairdressers three times in my 21 years of life.

I'm not your baby, mate

Walking home from the supermarket one afternoon my flatmate Rosie was banned from making up pet names.

Fine flat makes a happy homebody

At school they always tell you that you should never flat with your friends. Whether or not that was the only parting advice my school offered, I'm not sure, but it seems to be the only thing that stuck.

Farewell, Lou; now your gifts belong to all of us

Out of respect for Lou Reed, I tried to hold out on reading anything written about him until he was well and truly dead.

Time to try one out of the box

Before I moved in with one of my beloved flatmates I had never been the kind of person that bought cask wine.

The great yawning lacuna of a summer spent in Dunedin

Summer in Dunedin has well and truly arrived, and along with it the familiar eerie silence.

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A situation report