37 Days as an Antipodean
Clothes shopping banned, all other consumption encouraged
I’ve placed a temporary ban on CLOTHES shopping for myself, and I’m letting it coincide with LENT, which is the ultimate reminder of impermanence (of things…? To dust we shall return).
By the time the 28th of March rolls around, we will be entering AUTUMN, so I’ve created a list of things to steer us into a new season.
Dancing Girls & Other Stories by Margaret Atwood: I found this at a bach, read it in two days, and have never felt so much melancholia on a beach. I was actually TOO melancholic for the amount of sun I was getting, and suggest you all wait until it’s a bit nippier to gobble this up, but not so far into winter that you’re yelping from the cold (and other things).
Everyone, take part in a streaming swap: get rid of Netflix/Disney+/Neon/Amazon Prime and get a Mubi subscription instead. Once you’ve done this, watch:
THE WIND WILL CARRY US by Abbas Kiarostami
SO LONG, MY SON by Wang Xiaoshuai
CHOCOLAT by Claire Denis
Football shirts out, footy guernseys in. AFL season starts on the 7th of March, and I’ve taken it upon myself to champion it to all my Kiwi friends. If you would like to join in on the following the SPORT OF THE AUTUMN – AND YEAR – please contact me directly with your team of choice. The team CHANTS are unbeatable, So if you’re unsure where to start, I suggest listening to a few to help decide where your loyalties will lie. Then, we can all start buying merch (leave BLOKECORE in 2023, it’s MATECORE 2024).
I’ve taken up running (gone on One Run), which really beacons to the world that I am a single woman just shy of 25. I will not be joining a RUN CLUB, and I was trying to keep it LOW-KEY but I’ve already downloaded Strava and told all of my friends about my One Run (any tips and tricks would be welcome!!). It’s actually the perfect hobby for me in my clothes shopping ban, because I think all running gear is extremely ugly and I’m not getting influenced by anything on my For You page (my algorithm has also been told I've gone on One Run). However, I have bought a SPIBELT, which come in really terrible colours and patterns, because I need to run with my:
iPhone 11
Vivienne Westwood wallet
Three house keys for three different houses
Volkswagen Golf key
Mini Swiss Army knife keychain
Vape (LOL)
I don’t think this counts as clothes shopping because it’s so lame.
Final thoughts on PRE-AUTUMNAL ACTIVITIES and NO NEW CLOTHES:
Eat as many punnets of blueberries as you can, before you start kicking yourself in March
Start planning your move to Australia
Take a look at this chart
Sit in the park by yourself and with your friends and then by yourself again
Message Arantxa about the AFL
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