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Another afternoon spent in the library diligently reading + taking notes 🤍📖🫶🏻

📚: Currently reading Ink Blood Sister Scribe for my April book club, and it’s getting really good🥹🌙

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gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

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I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

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spring is finally here at Oxford

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“Umm it will actually be very difficult for universities to divest from israel and arms manufacturers without tuition skyrocketing 🤓☝🏼” why is the financial stability of a college (and the economy at large, especially in the us) so reliant on what amounts to war profiteering to begin with? Why is that an inevitability that we’re supposed to accept?

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// January 2024

The discipline and studying paid off! My first exam went great, giving me motivation to keep it going while desperately waiting for spring time to come around 🌷

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I had a delightful Sunday last week: coffee and a wander around The Wallace Collection, walking though Marylebone with an obligatory stop at Daunt books, and then basking in the sun at Regent’s Park with a cupcake 🧁

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05.02.24// work has been surprisingly calm today, so, after running some errands an revising my script for tomorrow's phd conference, I've done some phd brainstorming and class prepping :)

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I spend so much if my time daydreaming everyday, it's almost as if I'm leading an entire different life in my head

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01.14.2024

pictured: coffee, the cold, and colors of the first snow

hello! it was quite chilly this morning. rather than staying next to my fireplace, i braved the cold to complete my readings for the week. i might just have to slumber here.

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Mahmoud Darwish // Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The pretty study places series continues 📖

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crocheting, tea logs, playing persona, recent bookstore pick-ups! also desperately awaiting spring 🌿

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Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

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Oh, to be a bookworm in London 🤍

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2024/01/16

getting into the groove of school again, especially with readings. i’ve gone almost three years skimping on them, but i’m finally in a course that forces me to do them… oops