How hypochondria affects your everyday life — I’m fine. I think. It’s hard to know for sure when you’re a hypochondriac. Mysterious pain… now what? It was late November last year when my right leg started hurting. The pain was constant. My leg felt tight and heavy. It didn’t matter whether I was lying down or speed-walking. It was always there. …

The sequel that no one asked for — Tall Girl 2 is Netflix’s newest high school romcom and a sequel to the infamous Tall Girl (2019). Filled with jokes about height, relationship drama, and a surprising number of songs, the sequel leaves you wondering one thing: Why did we need this? Here’s what you missed on Tall Girl The movie starts with Jodi (Ava Michelle)…

Two articles in and I’ve already made almost £120 — I wasn’t looking for a job. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t really looking for anything. I was just trying to find out what people thought about the latest episode of Love Island. The confusing world of freelance writing I always thought I’d be a writer. And I was doing well, for a while. …

#3 They don’t write ‘sup’ as their first message — How do you even find love? Is it on Tinder? Or Bumble? Or a whole other app? We all know that the only way to meet people is online. No one meets outside anymore. And not because of lockdown. …

From the perspective of a total couch potato — Now that we’re in the middle of yet another lockdown, I have been feeling particularly motivated. I will start exercising again, I decide. And I decide this every single day. See, when I say ‘particularly motivated’, what I really mean is that I mostly daydream about how fit and sexy…

You’re just two steps away from Stephen Hawking — Not to brag or anything, but I have been told all my life that I’m super intelligent. That I’m a smart cookie. That my IQ is through the roof. Fine, okay. I’ll admit it. It’s mainly people who don’t know me that tell me this. Strangers going by their first…

#2: Binge all of Married at First Sight Australia — I have been in education for 18 years now. Eighteen years. My academic career is so old it can get piss drunk and accidentally marry a stranger on a night out. You’d think that after so long I would have everything figured out. What to do, what not to do…

Confessions of a kosmemophobic — My phone has this thing where it recommends news articles I might be interested in. It’s based on some algorithm overseeing my internet history, which is scary. Especially considering most of these recommended articles are either about murder or Rupaul’s Drag Race. But yesterday, I was shown a different article…

One thousand percent not worth your time — I have to self-isolate. For two weeks. Again. This was in September. I just moved back to the UK after spending the summer with my family. And so it happened that I was in a new, empty flat, looking at the blank walls, desperately clinging onto what was left of…