Archive for the “Journal” category
Dependence
by Azuka on March 29, 2007
About 50% of my life since I came here has been spent behind my screen. I never would have realized how much the Internet meant to me until the network connection in the dorms went down. No e-mail, no Wikipedia, (…)
Lingerie
by Azuka on March 8, 2007
I had just come back down from the third floor where Kwame, Amir and I had been trying to solve some questions in readiness for the second part of Dr Hodge’s Calculus II test today (it’s 1:37 am). My clothes (…)
Overture
by Azuka on February 21, 2007
I had walked into my friend’s room to get a haircut from his roommate. ‘Hi sexy!’ someone called out. I looked up to see who it was. It was a girl, pretty and with this haute look from under the (…)
Gourmand
by Azuka on February 19, 2007
Noun gourmand (plural gourmands) a person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink. A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. I’ve been gaining a lot of weight in the past few months and I was beginning to (…)
Rub and Shine
by Azuka on January 12, 2007
One would think I escaped all the ‘usual’ trouble I’d grown so used to in Nigeria — NEPA, especially — and since I came over, everything’s been as normal as you’d expect things to be. I got out of bed (…)
Names Amnesia
by Azuka on January 9, 2007
I walked out of my Discrete Structures class today and while struggling to get into my coat, literally bumped into one of my former classmates. She called me by name and said, ‘Hi!’ Oops, I’d forgotten never known her name! (…)