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19.05.25 🍓 ☕ 📚 somehow this semester is not stressful enough to complain about but just stressful enough to feel tired all the time, so i let myself be peer-pressured into drinking coffee for the first time :') bitter af

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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contents of my bag (i love library books)

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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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21.05.2025 🌿 what a wonderful day! i went to the market with a couple of friends, had a really good violin lesson and they gave me free coffee at the bakery + i got a near perfect grade for my term paper :)

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came up with a banger paragraph while lying in bed trying to fall asleep and told myself i'd remember the next day. you will never guess what happened next

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05.03.25

I had some time to read in a café. I haven't done this in a while because of my schedule and some adverse events in life, hehe. But today, I had time. I'm grateful for these little moments. :) By the way, I ordered my favorite matcha latte. 🍵

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My uni semester is done done done ! I received my good results, so I can finally exhale. My friends and I reread the Bell Jar and went to see the Dead Poet’s Society in theatre, and it was SO nice to think about something other than my uni assignments ☕️

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healing happens in circles, not lines. you will return to old places with new eyes.

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— virginia woolf , carlyle's house and other sketches (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

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Tag your favourite flower, fruit, colour, scent, season and tea!

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physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.

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| 18 may 2025 |

I'm at my aunt's by the shore :D trying to relax before I start research up, I've brought 2 library books and I'm halfway through the first one! I love taking sunset/sunrise photos so I may post a bunch of those..

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Embroidered chiffon evening dress for Queen Alexandra of Denmark

c.1910

Doeuillet, Paris, Fashion Museum of Bath