Posts filed under “Journal”
Dependence
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, no blog-hopping, and I was in danger of losing a Scriptlance project I’d worn the […]
Lingerie
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 had been sitting in the washing machine for a while and I remembered to stop […]
Overture
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 hat she had drawn down over one eye. I’ve always believed gender doesn’t matter when […]
Gourmand
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 wonder if it had anything to do with my drinking hot chocolate and eating bread […]
Rub and Shine
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 this morning and rushed into the shower. I didn’t get any water when I turned […]
Names Amnesia
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! When someone’s all gushes and happy to see you for some reason, you’d better know […]