The past few days have been rather physically trying, thanks to a female-only affliction called PMS. I have spent the past three days feeling incredibly bloated and looking as if I'd become 9 months pregnant overnight. The unsightliness of a bloated stomach aside, what was even worse was how painful it was, especially yesterday. I must have ( Read more... )

My writing; so lazy! If there were to be one particular cause for the failure that is my life, it would, without a shadow of a doubt, be my laziness; and with that, my chronic lack of self-discipline. It is staggering that I have written only two entries this month; and I have no other excuse other than my laziness ( Read more... )

It was the rare occasion that I sat by the window on a plane; the control freak in me does not like anything but the aisle seat on flights that are more than two hours long. I do not like the feeling of being trapped in my seat, unable to get up, stretch my legs, go to the toilet, anytime I want; feeling trapped by the inconvenience and ( Read more... )

1. Brighton did not happen. I woke up on time, ate and showered on time, but just as I was about to get a taxi for the train station, I discovered that my period had arrived. Great. I thought maybe I could go anyway since it was Day One and the flow is usually quite light on the first day, but I couldn't fathom how I would be in a bikini, going ( Read more... )

I have been feeling quite tired for reasons unknown to me, though it could be the combination of not sleeping enough because Wimbledon and my playing tennis 4 or 5 days in a row. I finally felt the effects of it last night when I played with a new person, at a new place, and found myself unable to time my forehand properly and so hitting a lot of ( Read more... )

Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights Project gave a talk at the faculty today as part of the Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy series that Raffael organises. I usually go for these talks because I am a supportive friend and supportive of the cause; but I don't usually leave feeling as if I had missed an opportunity to do something meaningful with ( Read more... )

Today has been one of the best days I've had in weeks. Having finished and sent off my Chapter 1 to my supervisors; having sent off the first volume of the Cambridge International Law Journal to the publisher last Friday; and having survived chairing a session of the Cambridge legal and political philosophy yesterday (over which I was, as usual, ( Read more... )

This Siberian freeze that is wrecking snowy havoc all over Europe really needs to stop. I am sitting in my room now wearing a hoodie over my extra-warm Uniqlo heat-tech long-sleeve top that I usually wear when I go out and when it's absolutely freezing cold - and I still feel cold. It, of course, doesn't help that the heating will be turned off ( Read more... )

Thursday evening with Thomas over at his ended on a rather muted and ambivalent note. In hindsight, too, the whole evening was rather weird, though my assessment of it as such may be coloured by my inability to relax due to the HSV1 conversation that I had intended to have. I didn't go in with a very clear game plan of when I was going to say it ( Read more... )

The temporary hormonal imbalance that accompanies the arrival of my period has put me in a wistful and rather melancholic mood the whole day (by 'day' I mean Saturday, 13 May 2017). I am awake at 4am writing this because I'd had too much coffee and I can't sleep, and there are these thoughts going through my mind and I don't know what else to do ( Read more... )