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3/1;

back in the library today, felt burnt out on japanese so shifted focus the last few days to an essay assignment on the buddhist doctrine of emptiness. rained a ton today, but the library is warm and i’m feeling focused.

🎧: tradition - cho co pa co cho co quin quin

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Studying is easy with a cat around 🐱

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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Look at that thats pretty cool

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Aging is hot. Gray hairs are hot. Smile lines are hot. Get with it.

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Early morning on campus ✨

(I was there an hour early because the automated schedule in my calender didn’t match with the most recent one given by our lecturer 🥲)

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Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

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27|04|2024

Today I decided I didn't want to set an alarm and I am happy I did that, I got a bit more sleep but I still managed to be productive. In the morning I got done more than I had planned, which makes me very happy. I then went to my brother's for lunch and to spend the afternoon together rewatching the hobbit movies. We watched a movie and a half and we'll finish sometime next week. I am really happy about the fact that lately we have been having these movie afternoons because ever since he moved out we have not been spending a lot of time together and I really missed it. I hope we can make this a sort of an habit to spend more time together like we used to when he was still living here.

today's productivity:

read first thing in the morning

Irish review on duolingo

read and annotated the Merchant Of Venice (I finished the third act so next week I will be able to finish my first reread and move on to other tasks like finding articles to help writing my paper)

started looking for a couple of articles for my paper (and I have yet to find out if I can access them with my uni credentials but that is a next week task)

did a quick monthly set up in my bullet journal to write down all the things I have to do next month (I have to get back into using my bullet journal since I have not been using it for a few months now, and I haven't find the perfect system for this period of my life yet)

📖: Miti E Leggende Dei Celti, The Merchant Of Venice

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27.04.2024 // I read halfway through Kate Eichhorn'sThe Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order while soaking up the sun in the deck.

Eichhorn's seminal work on feminist archives of feminist organising and feminist archiving practices is quite useful to me. But it always amazes me how scholars theorising from and about the West use such universalising and generalising language.The Archival Turn is about specific zines and other cultural materials produced by girls and young women in the US. Yet, due to the title, one might think that there was an archival turn in Feminism™ across geographical, sociocultural and political contexts at the same time.

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started reading, ended up drawing

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Ttoekbokki cats! The final part of my Korean food cats. This one is my personal favorite. They look so cozy in their spicy sauce <3

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i talk my shit but do you guys remember being 12 and in 2008 and you heard viva la vida by coldplay for the first time and you were like fuck this is so powerful. i'm going to kick the ass of god

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Unmute !

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wednesday, 24 april 🤍

i feel like a spent a lot of time revising yet did so little. it took me 2 hours to learn twelve flashcards and i didn’t even finish learning them. remembering biology is so hard, but it’s ok, i have tomorrow .*ೃ

7hrs 30 on forest ✿ 221 anki reviews total ☆

♪ of the day | so high school — taylor 🎧

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Desk before and after disaster (writing a results section)

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so back when i was teaching, one of the things i learned to look for were the "mood makers", as i liked to call them, of the classes. there were always 2 or 3 per class, and it was easy to find them in the first few days. you got those kids on your side, and it was a ripple effect with the rest of the students - they would all follow. so winning those kids over was huge when it came to how the year would play out. and from time to time, whenever the class was sort of faltering - middle of winter, of a big project, burn-out high - i would lean back in on those mood makers again to turn things around.

one particular class, when we had a big multi-month group project happening, were just... really struggling with getting their shit together lol. they were supposed to be practicing their presentations (english speaking class) and they were doing pretty much anything but, and their presentations were supposed to start the next class day. they were also PANICKING as i started giving out some feedback - which was NOT GREAT - as they were running through the lines they were supposed to be remembering. after realizing all of them needed so much extra work, i decided we needed to have a turn-around, so i invited one of the mood makers up to the front. i held out a cup to him, with two papers inside.

"one of them," i said, "says tuesday, and if you draw that, presentations go as planned. but one of them says thursday, and if you choose that one, everyone gets extra time to practice."

everyone was like OH SHIT. OKAY. THIS IS IT. and this mood maker, he was a big personality (they usually are) so i knew he'd really ham this up, and he did. we made a huge deal, with drum-rolls and everything, of him picking one out of the cup. he opened it up the paper and announced THURSDAY to a round of huge cheers. he was the class hero. everyone had TONS of motivation to work super hard on this gifted extra day, and really put the time in. their presentations were great. morale SOARED.

the plot twist was that both papers said thursday, because they all needed the extra time. my forever teacher advice: find creative ways to make things happen so that you get the buy-in from the class.