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| 7 june 2025 |

quite foggy this morning but lots of squirrels out. I got myself a bagel, also I found this new pomodoro timer/focus website called "flocus". I mostly like it because they have a bunch of pretty backgrounds and you can customize the timer/break times

🎧 | angel of my dreams — jade

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040625 // june days

not a fan of iced teas but i love taking photos of my friends' drinks nonetheless

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the only tolerable thing about summer is that everything is lush green — thankfully my apartment is under the shade of a chestnut tree.

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Orals reading day 1 - 27 May 2025

Started Plato’s Symposium, the earliest written work on my orals lists. I’ve read it before so I really ought to be skimming. I have a hunch I’m being much more lackadaisical now wrt reading speed than I will be come October.

🎧 - Bleachers, Live at Radio City Music Hall

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June 1st, 2025

Starting off June right with a short morning reading session. I've accepted that I just don't have the energy for academia after my day job and have adapted accordingly. It's somewhat eerie to visit an empty cafe when they open in the morning! I do appreciate the quiet.

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time for an accountability post yet again! 🥲

it's 23 o'clock and i have a Big Scary Super Important paper due at midnight tomorrow. i had the whole semester for this. i did. but i'm only halway done with the easy parts of it and haven't even started with the harder ones. BUT i want to celebrate my friends thesis defense tomorrow as well, so i NEED to get this done NOW.

hopefully the next time i visit this blog the paper will be done...

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May 2nd, 2025 - Friday

A little tea party with some close friends✨ Sometimes what friends who are in the midst of applications (job apps, grad school apps) just need to dress up and have fancy tea. Just a little bit of whimsy to look back on and to carry us thru the rest of a process that feels hopeful yet hopeless, productive yet a waste of time. Because if I've learned anything, it's that the time that passes is spent whether you do anything in that time or not. So make little good memories even in bad times. Especially in bad times.

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25/05/28

Afternoon library session working on a conference presentation.

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reading these two side by side (the og one in finnish, the other translated to french) and it's a very space-demanding reading situation

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25 24 days until Baekhyun’s concert:

14/24 days left

🧹 cleaned my house

💉 got vaccinated against the flu

📚 stopped by the bookstore and read a few pages of a psychology book

📺 watched episode 2 of Riku Oh

☕️ made myself some tea and some coffee as emotional support

🇰🇷 3 min korean lesson

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i bought a couple czech poetry volumes that i haven't had a chance to read yet but that will change on the weekend!

Friday, the 6th of June 2025

Last night, I was feeling heavy-headed and was relieved when my roommate suggested to have an early dinner. Together, we went out for groceries and combined our fatigue-induced stupidity to make at least one proper dish. Courgette tartes with a nectarine salad on the side it was! We had a good chat, and while he went back to work, I went straight to bed and slept soundly through the night. Again, I began the day reading and in all honesty had to drag myself out of bed and into class. The class itself was as interesting and intense as always - I always come out tired but content. The professor is truly fantastic: supportive, smart, and witty. She helps me regain the joy of daring to make mistakes when learning to speak a language. Nevertheless, I'm quite fatigued now, and hope to get some general housekeeping stuff off the table before driving back to the countryside to be reunited with the dog.

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enjoying the peace and quiet of my first solo trip to do some studying

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6.6.2025 - DAY 1/100

redoing the formatting of how i post these, as i think the last method was a bit cluttered. was a good day today, unpacked from my trip and exercised and went to a miniature family reunion.

▸finish cleaning/organizing my desk ▸vacuum the carpeted floors ▸read for at least half an hour ▸print out the study plan starting monday

🎶 rule #27 - drunk on pride by fish in a birdcage

📽 you’ve got mail dir. nora ephron

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| 7 june 2025 |

quite foggy this morning but lots of squirrels out. I got myself a bagel, also I found this new pomodoro timer/focus website called "flocus". I mostly like it because they have a bunch of pretty backgrounds and you can customize the timer/break times

🎧 | angel of my dreams — jade

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Snippets from my room don't allow me to give up even when it gets challenging.

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friday | may 23

i think i've got about 30 minutes before the level of caffeine in my system shifts from "happy, energized, and motivated" to "ball of anxiety". taking advantage of my current state to make some more headway on grad school research!

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Y'all... due to some pet medical emergencies I have to make up a week's worth of work this weekend

Baby proof bedroom

150 Minimum workflows (preferable 200)

Read thru Ch 5

Balance checkbook

Post 20 Evals

Clean office

Finish writing chapter 4

Unrealistic? Yes but howevrr much I can get done I will