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I don't really get pets

I don’t really get pets.

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Self-care reminders for student-parents (aka finishing the marathon)

In a recent job letter, I wrote, ‘completed PhD while parenting three children and working part-time’. Ergo, I eat conflicting deadlines, a busy workload, and high pressure for dinner.

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What happens when we die?

I’ve never been a spiritual person, but recently, I listened to journalist and author Leslie Kean talk about life’s greatest mystery: what happens when we die.

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Switching between work and study

While I study my PhD and undertake part time paid work basically within the same field (Australian politics), there are real differences between my two roles, and thus, I find myself constantly aware of the need to utilise different approaches of ‘headspaces’ in each.

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A winter walk

Waterfall gushing over rocks

A winter walk is one of the simplest things I’ve been using to improve my mood and reflect and notice.

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Applying for jobs

I am approaching the end of my studies, and so have started applying for jobs. 

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Easy, Healthy and Cheap

I’m on a little bit of a health kick after having taken the advice to ‘support local small business’ by ordering take away a little too seriously during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Australians sound weird

A character (invariably blonde) is introduced in a movie, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Then they start speaking, they sound weird and it makes me frown for a brief second. Realisation dawns, oh they’re Australian!

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The Responsibility of Art

Should an artist bear any responsibility for what happens when they put their art out into the world?

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Unpopular opinion: I am starting to like mullets

I have always hated mullets. Dirty, grungy haircuts that need to be left behind in the 80’s. Society has moved on and advanced, but are they coming back?

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