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My kind of neon sign 🌟

Armchair Books in Whistler, BC, Canada

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being in academia is kind of like where you're on everest and you see the frozen bodies of the other people who've tried it strewn about everywhere and you think "okay, but that's them and i'm me"

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meh

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"Clair de lune."

@songs-of-venus

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magnolias, june 2025

metro atlanta, georgia, us

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Doing this for her. For my future.

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coffee, reading, and journaling

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instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

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OOTD + current read 🌷📖

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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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Amar Akway by Pieter Hugo for Harper's Bazaar US Magazine June 2025

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the key to surviving grad school (also maybe life but definitely grad school) is to pick a side quest every few months or so. something that brings you joy and that you can get better at over time, independent of whether or not your research or classes are going well. put your need for academic validation to use in a non-academic setting and everything will feel less dire and you will learn you are more than your work

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summer dinners in the yard

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a trip to chapel hill for archival research!

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