Hello!
It’s been another two weeks and here is your gift. A newsletter! Do you like it? I know it can get a bit tedious seeing them pop up in your inbox. Sometimes you just have other stuff on, sometimes you don’t have enough time to do anything more than skim. All the time I appreciate you reading as much or as little as you would like to.
Of course, If you haven’t already subscribed I wouldn't let the start of this newsletter deter you.
The Content
I have been carrying a camera around everywhere I go. Unfortunately, the camera isn’t a cute Fuji film situation, but you can fix that in the post anyway. I want to enjoy taking the camera out and about. I’m pretending to myself that I do. However, I am worried about the state of my finances if it really does click. I can’t become a photography girlie, it’s too easy to get hooked on the gear! I keep walking past Walkens in Melbourne and eyeing up the camera straps and Polaroid cameras.
Anyway, here is an early copy of my first camera adventure. A quick video on my scepticism for Little Libraries, which are meant to be a great point for connection and community sharing but always end up as a dumping ground for books you can’t believe anyone ever purchased in the first place.
(I re-sized this for TikTok/Reels before finishing it because i’m an inpatient bitch)
The Food
Have you had a Cheezel lately? Divine.
How did we make such a perfect piece of puffed rice, corn starch and cheese seasoning? Something to think about. You are excused from this section of the newsletter and invited to go partake in some Cheezels yourself.
The Social Stuff
It’s a shame meet-cutes aren’t real. Not a proper form of connection. Not good either.
Yes, when you are single you might yearn for someone to approach you on the street. A perfect person who can see what makes you special and unique from a distance and dares to act on it. Someone who knows that life is fleeting and you never get a chance to have this exact moment again. Sure you could go home and search endlessly for them on dating apps, but I would hope you would feel like a creep before that approach is successful.
The reality of it though, is even when it does happen it’s never someone that you want to notice you. It’s someone you would much rather let you remain invisible. It breaks the truce of civil inattention we have all made. They approach you at the lights and immediately stranger danger kicks in. The words “Stop it, I don’t like it, my body belongs to me” run through your head.
The opening line is always so similar, something about seeing you from across the street and feeling compelled to ask you for a drink. And even if it is someone you could be attracted to, good personality pending, the most upsetting thing is the assumption that anyone has plans that can be so easily disrupted. To be out with no purpose in the city you live. That shit is for tourists. If I am leaving my home it is to do jobs, even if that job is meeting up with a friend I’ve already put off three times because I haven’t been in the mood.
This all being said, I once turned down free Book of Mormon tickets and it continues to haunt me. These two boys walked into SPQR where I was eating a Margarita pizza alone before a show and asked if I would want to join them for the show. But I had to turn them down because my commitment to doing improv for free could not be shaken. There is a lot to regret in that sentence.
The Miscellaneous Stuff
Here are the links:
Watching this video of Emma Roberts getting angry at people who are only there to see Bill Clinton on a loop.
Women are never the right age when it comes to work. I know that’s something I struggle with as I move from “too young” and start to enter the “could have a baby at any point” years.
love this house, I could never commit to the wall colours though.
The fall of Fallon. I'm really getting that Rolling Stone content again after an Almost Famous rewatch.
Have you ever seen some better-looking sandwiches?
Final Words
Sorry!! I forgot to schedule this yesterday and then I was down bad with that start of Spring fever. Hay Fever. But it’s Monday and we are here ready to go now anyway. Hope you found something you enjoyed!
Also if you are Melbourne based I am trying some new jokes with my friend Oliver Coleman for FREE at the end of the month. I’m actually really enjoying all the new stuff I have at the moment talking about the death of cities so I think you’ll have a good time. Coleman is always great tool. Book a seat here.