I can't say I've ever felt this happy, yet anguished; eager, but still so terribly frightened.

So my dissertation is going to be in bio-ethics. It's laughably ironic considering I've eschewed science all my life, and am now condemning myself to a future of monitoring and scrutinising its developments. Anyway, more specifically, I'll (most likely) be considering various conceptions of human dignity, their coherence, and whether genetic ( Read more... )

1. Had an especially good weekend in Manchester, walking along the Northern Quarter and taking swigs from a carton of soy milk while singing Last Night in the pouring rain. Sherman and I also spontaneously caught An Education in a little cinema with a piano, after I casually mentioned I'd been planning to see it ( Read more... )

( Dirty Valentine )

Out by the box-car waiting
Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long (so long)
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man

It's September. Referring to my mother's yellowing music scores, I used to play an oversimplified version of Autumn Leaves; melodramatically singing along, embracing the slow tragedy. Back then I'd never been in love - or at least I believe that on hindsight - but I pretended anyway. It's a beautiful song, like most other jazz standards. I wish I ( Read more... )

There's a song playing on the radio ( Read more... )

This academic year's resolutions:

1. Clean my room consistently
2. Stay (relatively) thin, which implies going to the gym and walking aimlessly
3. Contribute regularly to newspaper and attend meetings, even if they do clash with lunch (priorities ( Read more... )

Today I ate lunch by myself in a Japanese restaurant. The last time I was there, I said goodbye to a friend who was leaving the country. I chewed on egg and chicken, clumsily scooping up chunks of sticky rice; sushi travelled past, colours and textures blurring pleasantly. I avoided reaching for the expensive plates. Beside me was a man in his ( Read more... )

Asking For DirectionsWe could have been mistaken for a married couple ( Read more... )