F*ck Kafka (Vol.3, 1982)

Content note: weight and diet talk; also brief mention of self harm and sexual assault

I find out how many years old Mum was the first time she boiled an egg... 

EIGHTEEN! Wild, I've been a master of the boiled egg for over a decade now

This episode we read about Mum reading The Bourne Identity for the first time, starting the Weight Watchers diet with lots of cottage cheese and Ryvitas, writing an essay on Kafka for Uni and none of the books being in the library because guess what? Every first-year lit student will write an essay on Kafka

We then read about Mum considering changing to Law which we discuss in length and decide she’d probs not have been a successful lawyer and might’ve ended up being somewhere around or worse than Dennis Denuto from The Castle. Mum posts a letter to Adam (no more info about what) and has lots of dreams where she’s meeting famous people and shaking their hands – very professional!

Mum has her second driving lesson, and though it's not in the diary Mum shares how the instructor acted inappropriately and we talk about how even if it seems people don’t know what they’re doing when they make you uncomfortable, they do, so trust your gut! We also talk about my ‘hot girl parking’ and find some diagrams from the diary outlining exactly how to parallel park, Mum then drives down to Inverloch in ‘Wuthering Heights’ weather dealing with the ‘problematic’ gear box in the Passat and canoe on the roof

Mum also has a bit of a retrospective epiphany where she realises that there’s a good chance that the source of her angst was that that she was an 18-year-old who needed to be creating or making something, but wasn’t, and didn’t know it yet! So, for anyone out there feeling the angst of life and not sure why, maybe try creating and see if it helps 😊  

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