valentines day - Last Year's Girl

culture consumption: february 2019;

I opened this month complaining on Twitter that my cold wasn’t so bad that I got to stay off work and watch Netflix, and then the next two days forced to do just that. While Stringer was in Colorado. Too sick for my own opinions, never mind cooking for myself, I retreated into everything my […]

the big girl’s guide to being your own valentine;

Valentines Day kinda has me conflicted. On the one hand it’s a heteronormative, hella commercialised non-“holiday” designed to squeeze even more money out of you six weeks after Christmas (and mere days before the birthdays of my two best friends – how inconsiderate). And I can’t think of anything much more demoralising to those not […]

sometimes the things you need are right back where you started from: tv’s grown-up love stories;

I have, over the past couple of weeks, become heavy obsessed by The Mindy Project; Mindy Kaling’s sitcom about the life and loves of a rom-com obsessed gynaecologist living in New York City. And when I say “over the past couple of weeks”, I mean that I’ve been piling up episodes since it first aired […]