Oh, hi! I'm alive!! (I mean, I hope you didn't assume I was dead because I haven't written in this blog for five months, but... I have perhaps at a point in my not-so-distant past jumped to similarly insane conclusions. Or, in any case, really enjoyed insisting that I had. And that's all I'll say …
Alllllll of the things
Hello! What's new with you, lovely friend, family member or casual fan (nope) reading this blog post? Not much over here! Well. Except. Since my last post... I've done about twelve more standup sets, including one this very eve (it was good)! I got my nose pierced! I left that part time job at the …
Phone-bloggin’ (or: comedy! visits! amazing things!!)
This is my attempt at writing a blog post without a computer. It is without a computer because my computer is broken. I am writing this post on my phone. Hi. "What's going on with you, Leslie?" you ask. "Your hair is disheveled and differently coloured and quite clearly overprocessed." (Yes. These are your concerns …
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Hello 2015, this is who I am
Here's a strong start to a blog post: I need to teach myself that I'm a valid human being. And how are you? It's been an odd time for my brain. Things have mostly been so good. I don't know. Last year (last year! It's 2015, guys!) was simultaneously amazing and mindblowing, and socially lonely. It's …
Getting away, taking the plunge
So imagine me, the day when I had that tiny, important epiphany, walking down Kentish Town Road with the sun beaming down on my bare shoulders, feeling happy and like I should be kinder to myself. Imagine my thoughts drifting to the impending Edinburgh Festival Fringe for which, comedy aficionado I am, I'd witnessed so much preparation. And …
Jobs, familiar faces, and self-improvement
It’s hot out recently, and more humid than London is meant to be. I don’t mind, really; summer doesn’t feel quite right without a bit of suffering, but recently I've found working in the extreme heat has made me feel a bit ill. An old feeling I remember well, and didn’t really miss. But I’m …
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The process of resocializing myself
Maybe extremes aren't the right way to go, you know? It's hard to get what you want out of life without making certain sacrifices. Obviously nothing about the process of moving to London was easy, but one of the things that was scariest to give up was the complete privacy of living alone. See, my …
Almost a year! ALMOST A YEAR!
I’ve been incredibly alluring to strangers lately. The particularly creepy ones. The ones who don’t see the fact I’m wearing massive headphones and largely ignoring them as reason to stop trying to talk to me. Who talk in spite of the fact that I cannot hear them for exactly long enough to get me to take …
Mantras, and the last two months
Periods of my life can be defined with little mantras. A few years ago it was “be brave” and that one will always recur in different forms. My predominant focus at any given time requires bravery (or else it wouldn’t be worth doing; I do love a challenge). “Be brave” is at the heart of …
Living the daydream
At the beginning of 2009, I decided in a year I was going to move to London. "Decided" is a strange way of saying it, really, because it'd already been a certainty in my brain for a couple of years that I'd have to do so one day, that this city that had lured me …
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