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The other day I read an article because I had downloaded it so might as well, even though I didn't think it'd be very useful for my thesis.

This afternoon I went through half the comments my thesis advisor had left on the draft I'd sent her, and one of them was perfectly answered by that article. Useful indeed! Very sorry to have doubted you!

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to all the warriors who will feel pressured to shave their legs now that it’s warm enough to wear shorts… HOLD THE LINE!!!

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does anyone want a weirdly comprehensive guide to keeping your house clean when your brain’s weird or?

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the existence of "maybe", "perhaps", "perchance", and "mayhaps" suggests there should also be "maychance" and "perbe"

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i can’t stand “it’s not that deep” attitudes like even if it really really isn’t that deep just PLAY WITH ME. just fucking PLAY. have a meaningless but deep analytical conversation with me. just like think about shit for fun. does anyone else like to think about stuff for fun. it’s so lonely

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Welp, last term was a shitshow for me. My treatment was toyed with, I lost my focus, my energy, and I got sick. I barely studied during the twelve weeks of term. Tried to speedrun it in the end, but didn't make it. I submitted one exam, out of the 3 I was supposed to take this year. Hopefully I'll do better next year and won't drown under everything, even though next year I'll also have a thesis to submit and defend. I'd cry. But for now: it's over. I'm going to relax, chill, see friends for the first time in three weeks. and then I'll go back to studying and working on my thesis. Because exams might be over, but exams aren't everything.

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every time I mention how many days sober I am I appreciate people congratulating me and telling me to keep up the good work. it is nice. but I also wish that milestones in addiction recovery weren’t still so pinned to length of sobriety/abstinence

yeah yeah I’m 50 days sober who cares. how about the fact that, when I do drink, it tends to be nipped in the bud after two days nowadays instead of weeks or months? how about the fact that drinking has been condensed to a six pack because I’m at the end of my tether, instead of browning out every night? how about my friend who has decided to stop drinking alone, and is actually sticking to that? recovery doesn’t always look like sobriety and I wish it was more normal to talk about that. yknow. when addiction is normal to talk about at all

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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Today I looked at my last exam of the semester, I did not cry, I looked at it for a long time, and then, I did some research and wrote One (1) paragraph.

Tomorrow, maybe more! (hopefully more, since I aimed to submit it today, instead of on Thursday, where I have nothing planned because I wanted to do do Nothing. but maybe I'll finish that exam instead...

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It's Wednesday! It's typically my "health appointments" day, so this morning I had physiotherapy, and this afternoon it was a vet appointment for my cat! She's fine, she just needed her shots to stay a healthy girl (she's getting old!!! can't believe it's already been 4 years since I got her—she's now 7)

After her appointment I took a snack while watching a (French) vlog about vlogs, and doing a thesis on vlogs. Because I follow Leachoue on Instagram, and it seemed interesting. (it was) (really helped with my motivation to pursue this)

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congratulations to people who are good at performing conversations and social interactions. did you take a class or is it just like genetics or whatever

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Sometimes two languages have a lot in common because they come from a similar origin point but sometimes two languages have a lot in common because one tried to eat the other at some point

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i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

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Worked on an exam for an hour, then the boredom settled in. Went for a walk. Had some chocolate. Not feeling much better. It's Medieval Library background noise time, I think.

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction