Expressions of Eslaviva

A jolly happy new year to everyone.  I hope it is not too late to wish everyone a happy new year? Even if it is, and I know it is, I will have to ignore this golden rule this time around.  Sooooo, whats up? What great tidings have 2018 brought us so far? Well, a few days into the year, H&M kindly took it upon themselves to organise the cutest monkey in the jungle competition in which the cutest monkey in the jungle came first, second and third. A few hundred hours later, while we were still gyrating to the sounds of 'jungle is massive' at the cutest monkey in the jungle competition, after party, the formidable man that is Donald Trump, organised a competition of his own; the competition for the shitiest county in the entire known and unknown universe.  Although we have not decided who the winner of this competition is, we certainly have a long list of shortlisted countries all fighting viciously for the number one spot. As if that wasn't nearly enough, ...

Sometime between midnight on Sunday and the time I would normally get up in the morning on Monday, I was lying down in my bed watching, or rather listening to a YouTube video by Marcus Du Sautoy about ‘what we cannot know’ when suddenly I decided to get up and do some writing. My intention is to kill two birds with one stone in this blog post. The first bird I want to kill (no offence to any vegans who might be reading this) is a bird called the setback.  So here goes.  After beating myself up for not doing any serious writing in 2 months, I eventually got tired of the bruises I got from kicking myself in the butt and decided to do some writing sometime in the middle of January. Having settled on what I wanted to write about, I got off to a flying start.  I quickly wrote my first draft and spent the next few days after fine-tuning my work. After about a week and half of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of words, I was totally satisfied with wha...