THIS VS THAT Raising Course Related Costs There are many good things in life, being the fourth user of a Netflix account you don’t pay for is definitely one. Another? Having a baby smile at you instead of crying like it does with everyone else (one of life’s greatest...
Editorial The sesh. We’ve done it. Aunty Cindy has finally let the boys and I get fucking twisted again and I am so, so thankful for that. Seeing the boys again was one thing, but to get absolutely lazered and all round weird on top of that? Fuck yeah,...
Living by the moon to McDonald’s… “If we can’t control the food that we put in our mouths, what does that tell us about sovereignty?” – Prof Linda T. Smith, 2020. Contextualise this for yourself – it’s not just about McDonald’s and what we put into our bodies. It’s...
Editorial You know what I miss? Tap Beer. The liquid gold that is usually either Waikato Draught or Speights for me. Usually consumed in cheap handles at the Hillcrest Tavern on a Friday between 3 and 5pm, over some shit that with my mates who have either finished up...
Quarantine Diaries Week… 6? 7? 25? does it even matter anymore? My days have now developed a routine. At 9am I ask my son to get off his game and do some school work, he replies “nearly done”, and we repeat this at half-hourly intervals until it seems like...
Quarantine Diaries Dear diary, Day 35: We are almost seven weeks deep in lockdown, and in all honestly, I don’t know what’s going on anymore. The alert system has the same importance as a yellow traffic light; two metres distance is 20% of a kilometre, and police officers shoot...
There are some moments where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. Like the exact nightmare I had the night after I watched Barbie and the Nutcracker for the first time (terrifying movie) or the phenomenal atmosphere of the 2018 RnV countdown (back when they...
Sex In The Tron I’m currently nursing the kind of hangover where you’re literally suffering on every spiritual plane, i.e. physically (that would be the box and the baccy cones) and emotionally (making my round of apologies the day after). Somewhere between 3 and 6 am, it got me...
Life After Lockdown NEXUS CONTINUED TO EMBRACE ITS POST LOCKDOWN REALITY, BADGERING UNIVERSITY STAFF TILL THEY CONDUCTED A VIRTUAL INTERVIEW. THIS WEEK IT WAS SUZY FLOURIE FROM THE WELLBEING HUB NEXUS What kind of support do you provide? SUZY With The Wellbeing Hub doors physically closed since lockdown, we...
