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. This time of the year, in summer, said moment looks the brightest…

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. Last week, those two colours on the walls accompanied me from the clinic's reception to the allergist's cabinet, where my long-lasting suspicion was confirmed — “Anton, judging from your symptoms and tests, I think you…

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…