Posts by Eve
Ipods: A Social Pest?
January 30, 2014
With the start of the new term comes new term resolutions: this is the term I work harder; this is the term I go to the gym; this is the term I stop buying salt and sweet popcorn. Resolutions give us a refreshing sense of satisfaction and aspiration pride. Even if we know, somewhere in …
Boob Length
January 24, 2014
Hair (specifically head hair) plays such a vital role in how we construct our personality, individuality and identity. Whether you wear it long, short, curly, straight, fluffy, messy it has such a distinctive effect on your appearance and how people remember you – ‘the one with ginger hair’ – ‘he’s the guy with spiky blue …
I can resist anything except an invitation to a play
January 17, 2014
Last Monday, I was invited to a rehearsed reading of a new play by C.J. Wilmann. He is not, despite the name, an eccentric thespian who smokes a pipe and calls everyone ‘darling’. He’s just a nice, lovely fellow who happens to be a rather talented writer with a rather large man-crush on Oscar Wilde. …
Awkward Encounters
January 11, 2014
The old home neighbourhood – a place full of memories, familiar coffee shops and people from school who you know, well the you-know-sort-of-but-kind-of-not-really-know-but-sat-next-to-them-in-class people. When you do run into these people you experience a strange feeling – nostalgia mixed with panic. You could act cool, a brief ‘Hi. How are you? Cool. Bye’ routine of …
Harry Potter Battleships
January 3, 2014
A significant sign that it’s a New Year: there are more diet adverts on TV. The New Year is a strange invention. It’s a bit like birthdays. One day follows the other as usual but, for some reason, the next day feels like a, well, a whole year later. It could be any day in …
Extra-terrestrial Christmas
December 27, 2013
When I was in lower Secondary School, years 7-8, my teachers would sometimes use a certain metaphor to try and get us to explain better in essays: ‘imagine you’re writing it to someone who has no knowledge of the subject like – like an alien’. And so, stimulated by the imaginative motivation of my old …
Christmas: The Movie; or, A Question of Genre
December 20, 2013
Back home for Christmas. And the lists have been written up. Lists for the Christmas party; Christmas decorations; baking ingredients; still-to-buy presents; and (most importantly) what-films-to-watch. Films. Movies. Whenever I think of the Christmas holidays I think of slumping on the sofa and watching a family film. For some people it’s TV series and, I …
Santa isn’t Dead
December 13, 2013
Twas a plain simple Sunday. And a girl lay awake, looking up out of the window of her tower-bedroom. The window was frosty and outside the world was chilly and damp. It was Christmas day. Well, for anyone else – any other students slumbering sluggishly that simple Sunday morning – it was just another Sunday …
Bloke in a Dress
December 6, 2013
Christmas season is panto season. Panto is like a mash up of a cheesy children’s TV programme and a sexiless cabaret show. Its primary audience is, obviously, children and parents – appealing to students isn’t really taken into consideration. However, I actually rather enjoyed Jack and the Beanstalk at the Nottingham Playhouse! I went on …
The Plastic Bag Phenomenon
November 28, 2013
The plastic bag – a creature we are all used to seeing floating around the kitchen, stuffed in a cupboard or lined up like pancakes at a sainsbury’s checkout. But these creatures are unstoppably duplicative. No matter how much you tell yourself you’re going to re-use them the next time you go shopping you never …
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