Phoenix Blackley
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6 Reasons Why I Love My Overdraft (And Why It's Okay to Be in Debt All Time)
My friends were recently talking about our housing situation moving forward into our second year of uni, and as you do, we were discussing the future decor and frequent IKEA trips we'd be making to kit out our abodes in the lushest merch possible. We were shown pictures of pristine grey sofa chairs with Scandinavian rugs, with civilised looking women sitting around drinking hot chocolate. This was the epitome of everything hygge, aka. everything Pinterest worthy and thus infuriating (due to visceral aesthetic envy and unattainable beauty). She proclaimed that this is what next year's house would look like, and insisted that everyone will be using coasters so we could exist in a kind of neo-Swedish flushed-surfaced rug-coated wonderland where student grime would not exist. These pipe dreams were of course squashed (student dirt is notoriously stubborn), and one of them said something I think is widely applicable to most things student-related.
By Phoenix Blackley6 years ago in Motivation
- Top Story - January 2018
'It's Not a Lovebite, It's Stress' - The Reality of Your Sex Life At UniversityTop Story - January 2018
"I’m stressed because I have not got a boyfriend which gives me a heat rash which people mistake for a hicky, which is the most ironic thing ever," one of my good friends at university told me once.
By Phoenix Blackley6 years ago in Humans
Lunch Date
They haven't seen each other in two years. The creeping wry smiles on their faces aren’t to do with the anecdotes he is telling, or her face when she drops her spoon on the floor. They sneak looks at each other over menus, remarking silently how each crevice of a face they once knew so well has changed incalculably. They discuss the mundanity of their graduate jobs over teppanyaki bowls, and each order a beer to smooth over the cracks of new unfamiliarity. The cumulative time these two once spent together is either a best friendship or a relationship, and yet it has never been either. She never crawled into bed with him as a girlfriend would; she had never not worn makeup around him.
By Phoenix Blackley6 years ago in Humans