by Kat Jenkins | 29 Apr, 2010
You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone. – Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff), Garden State For...
by Kat Jenkins | 1 Mar, 2010
It’s a paperwork day today. I’m finally ridding myself of all those niggly little jobs I’ve been meaning to do, like spending time on hold to talk to my insurance company, the bank, the IRD… I’ve spent quite a lot of time on hold today....
by Kat Jenkins | 15 Feb, 2010
OK, so some off my readers have talked to me about this, and some may have read the tweets, but finally I have the time to record the story of my Flatmate From Hell (FMFH). I’ve been flatting on and off for about 10 years now. Over that time I’ve lived...
by Kat Jenkins | 1 Nov, 2009
Tonight I got to interview strangers and work out if I want to live with them. Finding a new flatmate is a shit of a job sometimes. You’ve all got 15 minutes to make an impression – it’s like speed dating but at the end of it you actually stand to...
by Kat Jenkins | 14 Aug, 2009
Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to be happy flatting. I’ve only ever lived in one situation with another person where I’ve genuinely enjoyed the entire experience (rather than tolerated or, in some cases, actively despised it) and that was with...
by Kat Jenkins | 2 Jul, 2009
My old, annoying flatmate moved out the other day – hallelujah for that! Leaving with her are the incessant phone calls in another language (a flatmate constantly on the phone is annoying enough, but having to listen to that phone call in another language is...
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