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Our first steps: on continuous learning and growing
My 10-month old has started taking her first steps and in addition to being wildly excited about all of this, I also found myself in awe. Well of course I’m biased, she’s brilliant, but she also gave me this opportunity to reflect on learning and growing in general. I mean, how do we learn how to walk? It looks like we do it by falling an incredibly large number of times. She also needed to learn how to let go of things that she could hold on to, in order for her to take her first steps.
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The bright side
As you may know if you’re a regular reader, I’ve previously challenged myself to write at least one upbeat, positive post a week. This has been one of the hardest things to do!
The Crown Season 4
Upon hearing that South Australia would be heading into (what was then though to be a six day lockdown), the most reassuring thought I had was that being forced to stay at home would give me the opportunity to binge the newly released season four of the Netflix prestige drama The Crown.
Waste of time
I sit in a room I don’t want to be, listening to someone say things I am not interested in, as part of a life I am not excited for.
Great workspaces of Adelaide continued!
I have long been looking for many and various places to study or work, from cafes to public libraries.
Making lists and ticking them off
I can have days when nothing happens. When I find myself in bed until midday having accomplished nothing. However, there are also days when I make lists and tick the heck out of them to get things done!
Our complicated relationship with Sex and the City (part 2)
Sex and the City is a beloved cornerstone of 90s and 2000s television culture, but its legacy is complicated.
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Walking every day
I always used to tease mum and dad for thinking that walking was exercise. In a twist of fate it is now the major source of fitness that I engage in. Every day now, I walk around the park near my house.
Hatred and blame during lockdown
The memes, jokes and hate have already started flowing after an individual who contracted Coronavirus deceived authorities and lied, but does this individual deserve the anger and blame that is currently being directed towards them?
Lessons learned by marking
I have spent the last two or so weeks marking undergraduate politics essays.
