mother maiden crohn

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Now that I am officially a Westie, hit me up with recommendations for stuff out west? Food? Fun? Kelston being my starting point.

An oeuvre I must be out of the loop on! Might be a bit weird/different because it’s direct from the developer? Not sure. Either way. House!

Oh really? I have no idea 🤣 I sort of assumed they put it on when it was no longer on the market.

fake it till you make it

mfw i drove out to the house i just went unconditional on two days ago to see that nobody has put up a sold sticker yet 🥲 I’M HAVING A TIME OKAY, I DESERVED MY LAME SELFIE.

I do really need to learn to sew to live my best con life though.

Obsessed OBSESSED with someone asking Tem about representing Te Arawa and Māoriness in the world beyond and going in films outside Aotearoa and him leaning in hard to mauri etc and also weaving in connection to SW with the Force.

Every time I’m at Armageddon I am reminded that one of the staff needs to teach Nicholas how question time works because he’s there every time asking repeat questions and it’s bloody annoying and takes up so much time and steals time from others. He was annoying at the bookshop and worse here.

I am once again pleading for anime and manga to have its own convention and let me not wade through so much of it to get to things I actually like at Armageddon.

Very unimpressed by 1A in the latest NYT crossword. Incorrect and disrespectful tbh.

more of a mismatched pair so surely not

the nature of the couple of weeks leading up to NCEA 12s and 13s going on study leave

I need more Ōtara Market action in my life. Came for a Niuē shirt, left with:
- TWO Niuē shirts
- earrings
- jasmine coconut oil
- a loaf of rēwana
- 10 Kuki doughnuts
- bottle of ‘otai
- two Scandinavian buns

I DID finish marking all my Level 2 mocks at school yesterday. And yes, I didn’t leave until 7:45pm because of that. But still.

Now L2 portfolios, year 11 practice essays, year 11 practice UFT, IB practice essays, eventually year 11 portfolios.

The hair I just shed is reflective of This Year.

Deciding to go to Ōtara market is actually genius because it means I have to up and about before midday on a Saturday. And then the rest of the day remains and marking and research proposal writing will still occur.

I miss Bean already.

Cannot believe that today, a day on which I am both unwell and having to wrap up Westmere cat sitting, is a day that Beabea’s is closed 😭😭😭😭 struggled my way through knowing that my reward after would be a pink icing bun. Not to be.

hell is currently the AT victoria street carpark, which i have been trying to leave for half an hour.

I wanted a little cute treat before school tomorrow because I am Struggling in a big way but it is not to be.

Came into the CBD an hour earlier than needed because I wanted to go to Crushes but it’s closed till 3:10 for a lunch break 🥲

the dummy in me has just figured one of them out with relative confidence

There are two women talking writerly stuff at this Westmere cafe and I’m not sure enough of who either of them are to say anything but they are talking about the Surrey residency and I just overheard a name of someone I know and I’m like 👀👀

Watched the match – first time of the RWC – courtesy of friends in the US screen sharing with me (because they get it as part of a regular old streaming service instead of the extortion of Sky Sport 🙃).

South Africa held their own pretty damn magnificently I have to say.

I realise that most power companies do monthly billing, but in the eight-ish years that I have handled bills and accounts for flats I’ve been in, I’ve been with Flick and it has always been weekly. Just glad I noticed I hadn’t been billed for a while before getting the inevitable horror month bill.

Pretty ridiculous that Flick gets bought by Meridian, and all the messaging is ‘don’t worry, you don’t have to do anything, it’s all sorted’ only to find (through having to email them to clarify) that ‘PSYCH we didn’t think to tell you that we do monthly billing only and that that could impact you’

Related: how *grim* is it that genuinely everything in my life that is making so so deeply sad in an ongoing inescapable fashion could be fixed if I just had money. Some money. A bit of money.

Somehow hadn’t seen the link yet so on it now!!

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So I don't have any junior classes this year so I don't have regular library periods. But I'm relieving a Y9 class right now, and of the six books the librarian recommended, very delighted that it was @hannahmarsh.bsky.social 's 'It's A Bit More Complicated Than That' that got the most requests. 💚🧡

choral/singing thought: I have a chaotic idea of translating (realistically, collaborating on translating) Pōkarekare Ana or another wartime song into Ghari or another Guadalcanal language as like a melding of Aotearoa and Solomons WWII stuff. like… that’s a kind of cool idea right?