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       I am beginning the current lockdown with a reflection.

       Since last lockdown I’ve

• Acquired my full drivers license
• Chipped my two front teeth in Ponsonby
• Learned how to bottle-feed a newborn
• Lived in four different houses
• Cried myself to sleep in four different beds
• Experienced my first optical migraine
• Wondered why age is more salient than a person’s humanity
• Bonded with two new felines
• Decided that emotional pain does have a location
• Apologised for being an absent friend
• Used the word ‘sorry’ unnecessarily/too many times
• Stopped going to the gym
• Slept for an entire day
• Fallen out of & back in love with my body
• Consumed copious amounts of cheese & wine
• Dismantled my obsession with the Virginia-Vita romance
• Had poetry published in literary magazines
• Swum with phosphorescent plankton at Campbells Beach
• Almost set fire to my diary collection
• Taken the ECP (x2)
• Sung lullabies to my plants in the morning
• Left people before they could leave me
• Read the Psalms
• Taught myself how to play the acoustic guitar
• Started back on antidepressants
• Accidentally/intentionally continued my streak of not speaking in lectures
• Developed a particular fondness for the Tūī bird
• Developed a severe hatred for money
• Tried tart cherry juice to aid sleep
• Redefined sex
• Learned how to use MYOB (business software)
• Made a new best friend
• Dropped the same university paper twice
• Been somebody I’m not
• Chopped open a kina on the ocean floor
• Taken a liking to capers
• Convinced myself into & out of heterosexual preference (laughable)
• Had an article published in the paper
• Continued to be hopelessly in love with a person
• Been trapped in an elevator for an hour
• Stopped starving myself (hurrah)
• Realised all my prayers are pleas
• Become a better (more present/attentive/responsive) listener
• Come to terms with my idiosyncrasies
• Read Romantic poetry in the Mount Street Cemetery
• Trained myself to lucid dream
• Drawn dead hydrangeas all over my exercise book
• Relished walks in the rain
• Immediately & overly attached to affection
• Regularly flossed my teeth
• Signed up to Twitter
• Endured the worst acute gastroenteritis ever
• Compulsively kept a blog & dream journal
• Watched my little sister fight her eating disorder
• Slept overnight on a boat (x2)
• Experienced Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (x2) 
• Composed a song about bathtubs & windows
• Dined & dialogued with accomplished authors
• Worn in two pairs of blister-conducive leather shoes
• Decided I like the colour orange