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07/08/2025

Went to the lab and worked on analysing some substrates for my research project

Finished reading “Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman”

Started preparing for my term-time internship by reading some material on the developments in the renewable energy sector

Started a MATLAB online course

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sunday | august 3 51-58/100 dop

another weekend morning struggling with grad school essays in my favorite coffeeshop!

work this week was a mix of successes and failures, as usual – on monday i'll start trying to express my protein of interest, but i'm not expecting it to work on the first try.

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Breakfast without the academic stress🌻

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23.07 - botanical gardens & a book about when medical advancement means murder.

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used bookstore tucked into an old church in the holler I will always love you

Buckeye Bend Books, Marlinton, WV.

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more dissertation editing!!

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09.07.2025 // fieldnotes and being an Art Critic™

it was surreal to have met my supervisor, who is visiting for her fieldwork, here in this city. meeting her in person helped because i've been feeling so disconnected/dissociated. sharing my anxieties and insecurities with her really helped; i've definitely been sleeping better since then. also, a temporary workspace that is reminiscent of my office at uni.

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I couldn't let this essay sit on the shelf of the bookshop - it called to me.

Saturday, the 5th of July 2025

Yesterday, I jumped right into revising for my Russian exam. Taking a break wasn't in the cards for me and I am truly enjoying diving into another language aside from Czech. Yet it's 4 o'clock in the morning again and I am so tired. The plan of getting back to the countryside early did not work out since there was a delay of almost three hours. Around lunchtime I was at home but so fatigued, that I fell into bed and napped with the dog for a couple of hours. A bit drowsy but determined I am back at the desk to study Russian. Tonight will be quiet before my early shift at the coffehouse tomorrow.

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I ate one of the pieces of toast in the process of taking the pictures ... Breaks in between deep work sessions are brief and there's no time to waste

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a warm cup of tea 🍵

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04.06.25 | Doing my readings :)

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January 2025, Seoul KR

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M2 diaries 06/100: I started the Infectiology section and treated myself with the best matcha oat latte in town. My sister in law came for a visit and we went to the opera (Tschaikowski‘s Pique Dame).

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u could literally have a PHD in something but a random man will still think he knows more about it than you because he’s male and you’re female and he read a post about it on reddit

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another half term spent up north- mostly marking papers. if you’re ever in leeds, be sure to pop by the bookish type for a browse. very excited to make my way through these james baldwin essays (but very unimpressed with the penguin archive collection covers). hope you’re all having a lovely june thus far :)

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Wednesday, the 28th of May 2025

Yesterday, I arrived in Prague. I have to admit that I was very excited to know the metro lines well enough to navigate the city without a map. I had a picnic on the balcony of my room before I went for a walk at dusk along the Vltava. On strělecký island there was a Czech folk band playing and I sat down to listen and read poetry. When I got back it was night, and I crawled tiredly into bed after having refused the offer of a visit to the karaoke bar and having consoled a crying lad in the hallways of the hostel. Although the night wasn't too restful, I got up early and strolled through Praha 5 until the rain got quite heavy and I fled into a breakfast café. Now I'm going browsing in a bookshop, and visit an exhibition with a friend before I'll have to be at the University in the afternoon.

P. S. I bought so many academic books on Czech history that I cannot get in Germany. My poor wallet and my poor back.