Again and again, handsome men take the best spot in any career they choose. — A short curly hair, a face structure of an action movie star(it’s all in the jaw), and a seemingly modest demeanour — a secret combination that makes many girls and boys immediately wet their pants. He carries a degree of masculine energy that’s just enough to attract and not distract…

After two hours, she finished with a white sticky cement-like composite in my mouth. — Can I use her real name here? I’m not sure. She didn’t formally say yes — maybe because I didn’t specifically mention that I would write about our encounter. At least, I think I can tell you how she looked. She had long, whole-wheat-coloured hair. She wore white, tight-fitting t-shirt…

In fleeing Kyiv, I left behind everything normal — I’m sitting in a cool, hipster-looking coffee shop with wooden floors and red brick walls, right in the centre of Ivano-Frankivsk. I drink filtered coffee. I see people of all sorts coming inside to sit or take away a latte, a croissant, a cake. I can order food, not just…

She rushed by me like lighting, leaving her electric energy and animal print behind — A ventilator above my head is working hard to keep me cool, and I do feel cooler than I usually am — maybe it’s the refreshing air that descends on me from the above; maybe it’s the magic of an afternoon coffee (which some might call chemistry, but I don’t…

Do I enjoy my coffee or am I addicted to it? — When I try to detach and look at my life from the point of an observer, I sense that nothing I do on daily basis would cross that fine line between “I like it, I enjoy it, I need it” and “I’m addicted to it, I’m obsessed, I can’t live…

When the thirst for completeness squeezes your throat, you reach for a cup of wholesome water. — There’s a time in every day when I catch a moment of sadness or, what’s fairer to say, the moment catches me. It starts at different times depending on the season and lasts for an hour or so. …

Fermented foods, aged meat, coffee, tea, most fruits, and some vegetables are off the table…is there anything you can eat? — From now on, I will associate grey and orange with a feeling of slight relief. …

And some other things you should and shouldn’t do. — You know what? We’re moving to a new flat. My boyfriend and I have been living in a one-bedroom apartment for three years — it was a medium-term committed relationship/the flat didn’t deserve our commitment for such a long time. Every winter, we ferociously wanted to move out, but instead…

Am I allowed to whine about this? — Today, it’s strange to complain about anything beyond the threat of dying because…people are dying in Ukraine — if not in Kyiv, where I’m right now, then in other places. In my case, I’m not dying — I mean, I am dying but not at the same speed as those…