NonIdyllic
Ethan and Rachel are at each other’s throats. The more Rachel tries to gain the upper hand, the more Ethan settles, smugly, into his superior, smart-ass, provoking air. The more she fights for fair treatment, the more pleasure he takes in denying it just to see what buttons it pushes. And oh how it pushes [...]
A fridge full of granola bars.
I have a freezer full of homemade tomato soup and a fridge full of homemade granola bars. I’m feeling domestic and accomplished. Before we moved to this house I used to get all sorts of things done with my weekends – baking bread and biscuits and cookies and pre-making lunches for the week. And laundry! [...]
Choreographed
I am trying my hand at choreography. I have a number of songs that are my favourites, just waiting for me to choreograph something to them. And this one in particular, that I am starting with, has been tormenting me for a couple of years with the sense that it has a story that I [...]
Immunity
I don’t like tropes. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m so bad at small-talk. Maybe it comes with having a facetious sense of humour. As soon as I’ve heard something a couple of times, my humour sensor trips, recognizing that here is something that people say on automatic and those things are ripe for [...]