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I love the song "Scarborough Fair" because it follows my favorite poetic structure:
Nosy question
Grocery list
Haunting personal information
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found this site that lets you like, look at all the radio stations around the world, lets you connect to them and listen in
and obviously you can flit around between all the big stations, but itâs quite fun to go to the isolated green dots
I discovered a new band thanks to a station in cyprus, and now Iâm listening to âchilloutâ music being broadcast from kazahkstan
(http://radio.garden/)
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things to do on sundays to recharge and make the upcoming week awesome
⢠clean ya room (just do it). also, check those pinterest boards you save for âone dayâ and actually go through them and draw some inspiration, even if you just end up rearranging the books on your bookshelf or putting some flowers from your garden in a mason jar on your desk. this is your home, make it feel like it is.
⢠do your laundry (also, donât forget your bed sheets). if youâre in the mood, look at next weekâs weather forecast and think about what youâre going to wear. go through your drawers, check the back of your closet. that hat you bought some time ago and forgot about because you didnât dare to wear it? well⌠new week, new you, right?Â
⢠call a friend/family member you havenât talked to in a while, tell them you miss them. tell them you love them. remember and appreciate that they are a part of your life even if it doesnât feel like it all the time.
⢠draw, paint, journal, write or make some music. something you know you love doing but ânever find the timeâ. sunday is âfinding-the-time dayâ. if youâre not feeling creative, read a book or watch your favorite show. or watch a new show. a scary show. a funny show. laugh as loud as you want. listen to music. listen to your favorite songs, or listen to new songs. even a new genre if you dare. turn the volume all the way up. take a second to consciously feel the music. you can always get up and dance. or sing. or both.
⢠the great, but still really effective classic: take a bath or a really long shower. if you have this special face or hair mask youâre saving up for a special occasion: congrats, youâre the special occasion today. use it. also, body lotion. we all know youâre going to be running late during the week and skip it one too many times. make yourself feel like the goddess you are.Â
⢠sit in silence for a few moments. listen to your breath. listen to your heartbeat. for the love of god PLEASE listen to your thoughts for once in your life. donât make them feel like they are wrong. or bothersome. they too just want to be heard once in a while. what are they trying to tell you? what could be soothing for them? be compassionate to yourself. itâs okay. you are okay. you are okay.
⢠think about things you can be grateful for next week. even if you feel like your life sucks atm, think about the small things you take for granted in a different way. for example: ânext week, i will have access to clean water. CLEAN. WATER. 844 million people donât have that.â or ânext week, my legs will take me wherever i want to go. not everybody has two fully functioning legs, so iâm lucky in that way.â youâre allowed to feel bad about your life, but youâre also allowed to feel good about things.Â
⢠if youâve stayed home most of the week, go out. go for a walk. go swimming. go to a party or dinner with friends. even if you feel like you donât need to see the outside world, chances are youâll feel great after you do. if you feel like youâve been running around all week, maybe youâd like to stay home today. put on your ugliest sweater, comfiest leggings, and fluffiest socks and curl up under a thousand blankets. you a sloth today and itâs okay.Â
⢠eat. i mean honestly: eat THE THING. i donât care if youâre on a diet. if thereâs something youâve been craving all week that has turned you into the veiny-neck-dude meme just trying to resist it: EAT IT. you deserve it. not because you worked out or ate salads or did well in school, but just because youâre a human and you love to eat and life is short and you should be allowed to eat yummy things. itâs okay. you wonât gain 5 pounds or lose your brain cells no matter how unhealthy it is, i promise.
⢠plan plan plan yo week. it doesnât matter if you use a planner, bullet journal, the calendar on your phone or the notes app: write everything down you have going on next week. appointments. events. coffee-dates. when are you going to the gym? what are you going to eat? (meal prep if necessary) also, create reminders on your phone for everything. âi wonât forget it!â is a sweet thought, but oh honey you will. schedule reminders for every event. let your phone remind you that you need to buy toilet paper when the store is nearby. schedule daily reminders for your medications. (once youâve done this it honestly feels like you just cleaned out 38GB of your brain, you simply donât have to worry about that anymore, space for more important info, like your new favorite pun to annoy everyone with)
⢠most importantly: listen to what your mind and your body need today and next week. daily life is so full of âshould-doâs that itâs important to find a healthy balance between the âshouldâs and the âneedâs. you will be much more productive, healthy and happy that way. nobody knows you better than you do, take advantage of that and plan accordingly.
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hildegard von bingen wrote âwe cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. an interpreted world is not a home. part of the terror is to take back our own listening. to use our own voice. to see our own light.â she wrote part of the terror is to take back our own listeningÂ
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the only valid version of "Hallelujah" is Jeff fucking Buckley's...like he's the ONE person who understands that the mood of this song is not "romantic" and "wedding-esque" but actually "sitting on the floor of your bathroom at four in the morning, drinking and crying while you wallow in self-pity and miss something that never was or could have been"
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why get a boyfriend when you can get a pack of really nice pens
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Iâve said this before and Iâll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
âoh we shouldnât teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where itâs noisy or they need to be quietâ
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things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever
change the color used to highlight text on your laptop
move the pictures on your wall
stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you donât have time to clean it all
slightly vary your commute, even just by one street
change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if itâs only to the chair in your room instead of your bed
drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real
shower with the lights off, without music
buy $3 flowers at trader joeâsâthey look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room
start typing things you donât post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you donât deem them worth sharing
wake up super early just once. you donât have to make it a habit itâs just extra satisfying to go to bed that night
listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015
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the fun thing about bel canto and grand opĂŠra and the like is that technically one could make the argument that itâs an improvement on opera seria (more varied musical structure, perhaps a more diverse crop of libretti, etc), but at the same time Iâll take a seria over a Donizetti piece 100% of the time cause itâs more likely to be gay and exponentially less likely to be suffocatingly heterosexual and thatâs what makes good art in my opinion even if there isnât a single fucking ensemble piece in it and Iâll have to hear the same 1000 words over and over again
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school mindset
essays:Â make each essay you write better than the last
⨠small assignments: aim for 100s, expect 100s, get 100s
⨠homework: pretend theyâre assignments
⨠homework thatâs not graded: pretend! theyâre! assignments!
⨠tests: study for 100s, expect less
⨠long term projects: act like itâs due in four days -even when itâs not- until youâre done with it
⨠group projects: do not get angry
⨠presentations: pretend youâre obama
disclaimer:Â this works for me, it may not work for everybody, do not push yourself too hard!!
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i feel like thereâs this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing
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