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I’ll probably find myself stealing some time to throw a few more pennies into this cyber fountain of mine, but for the next week or so I’ll be pretty much under house arrest. If it isn’t a Sociology essay, it’ll be a Social Work report. And besides all of that, I need to start studyingContinue reading “Exam Time”

Okay. So I finally gave in to peer pressure, and started a Twitter account this past Thursday.It took me a long time to get to this decision, mainly because I thought: “another social networking tool? But Facebook works just fine, though, doesn’t it?”. I just couldn’t understand it. I mean, I could see that itContinue reading “A Little Birdie Told Me”

I love her voice. Solange meets Erykah Badu. And this remix of another one of my favourites is just amazing! Follow: @ellevarner

I’ve always been undercover about this, but when Cosmo on Campus and Levi’s Curve ID set up their station right on the library lawns today, I went. I went, forsaking all logic and common sense, to stand in the snaking line in the scorching heat so that I could be fitted, made-up and photographed forContinue reading “Okay. I’ll Admit It…”

It would more aptly have been called “Mission” BFF, because that’s exactly what it was. When Pearl and I were trying to figure out where I had to be using Google Maps two nights before, it had seemed simple enough. Almost too simple, in fact, as it looked like the building I had to beContinue reading “Seventeen’s Project BFF”

I’m still undecided. I mean, I like DJ Fresh (UK)’s Gold Dust, and the remix of Ellie Goulding’s song Lights. But it’s still a little confusing deciding which one of the two genres has a more acceptable amount of “doef-doefing and nts-ntsing” as the people in Middelburg would say. Like, how do I know whichContinue reading “Drum and Bass vs Dubstep”

Hands  up if you do that crazy thing where you look through the characters in a scene from a movie, sitcom, or reality TV show- instead of at them- so that you can hear the soundtrack better? Anyone? Well, I know that I’ve lost the plot to Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl several timesContinue reading “Music Makes TV”

The word “whirlwind” comes to mind when I think of this weekend’s events. Family reunions, life-endangering bus rides, birthdays and special requests make up the bulk of what turned out to be a three-day birthday experience for Pearl and her friends. From Thursday afternoon to Saturday night a bunch of us (Pearl’s mom and herContinue reading “We Laugh. We Pose. We Snap Photos.”

When I walked into a friend’s room and saw this CD lying on her desk, I laughed. Loud and long. On the cover was the most ridiculous picture I’d seen in a while: a goonish-looking white man in an ibeshu posing under some dodge tree with a guitar! It looks like a mugshot. And his boepContinue reading “Death by IBhubesi Elimhlophe”

Okay. I already knew that.But, even after almost two years here, I am never quite prepared for the many ways in which this school lashes out at me. That’s not a figure of speech: today, I could actually feel the hoofs of the Wits Goat pounding at me wildly from every direction possible as IContinue reading “Wits Just Does NOT Let Up!”