Posts

Here you can find all of my posts in chronological order, from when I first realised this long-meditated project in my Paris attic.

  • Day 11 of the 14 Day Skit Challenge

    Guiraut de Bornelh, the very real perspective of the third wheel in an affair of courtly love. I am sick with my numbers and essay, sick with my stress and the tail-end of my illness, sick of my myself, and sick with/of love. I ventured into the National Gallery today, the site of our first…

  • Day 10 of the 14 Day Skit Challenge

    A lovely little Boccherini: I have felt ill and miserable for most of today. I made a lovely roast chicken, and I am making a beautiful stock from the carcass. I used rosemary, garlic, and onions. I kept it simple. My remaining flatmate said it was very nice. Our other flatmate has gone home to…

  • Day 9 of the 14 Day Skit Challenge

    Today, I have felt ill, and somewhat apathetic. Or numb. I know not what. I have not been all there. I got lost today, my earphones gave up the ghost, and I did no academic work. Not in that order. My friends told me off for getting lost. My phone battery wound down, and instead…

  • Day 8 of the 14 Day Skit Challenge

    I finally got to perform Cyrano! My voice is feeling better! Today I felt really quite ill this morning, but I got some good work done towards my exams nonetheless. I think there might be something to what my flatmate said – Lucozade might actually make you feel better during a cold. Might. I also…

  • Day 7 of the 14 Day Skit Challenge

    Ayyyy!!! The half-way point! I’m so glad I finally get to read this poem. I love it, and I’m so proud of that translation! Well, friends, I was awoken by worry and coughing at 5.20am this morning, for which I could find no remedy but to finish reading The Instrumentalist. It is a very beautiful…