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I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet ‘cause I haven’t moved in years.

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𝒶 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹…

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December 8th, 2023

Tired. Got the last pages of my dissertation back today. Quite some work ahead of me... Tired.

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my favourite professor complimented my academic writing skills/style ONCE i have lived off that shit for 2 years now

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17/01/2022 - 23/01/2022

I handed in my first essay on the 24th so i almost hit my goal of the week haha! Also, I have to get used to losing the weekends now because I started working at costa and it’s annoying lol

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10/01/2022 - 16/01/2022

essay work, procrastination, getting closer to getting an ADHD diagnosis, and slowly going insane. But at least I published a chapter for my fanfic and ignored my academic responsibilities lol

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my new desk in our new flat (i have a whole study now that’s also a guest bedroom because we have a 2nd bedroom now whaaat)

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happy new year! I’m gonna kind of re-start this blog again because i’m in my last year of uni and my linguistis BA and i’m  s t r u g g l i n g!!! so here’s my january monthly spread of my new muji bujo (forever disappointed they don’t have the clear dotted journals in the size i want anymore)

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02.01.19—Current hobby: faceplanting off my skateboard into a crowd of startled international students on the way to the Natural History Museum

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i had heard good things about shakespeare and company but i didn’t know it was THIS amazing. we spent way more time than planned there on our trip last week. psa: they have a housecat called aggie as well! bonus.

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me and my best friend went to the fair today and we had the time of our life 🎡💌

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getting healthy as a student pt.1

Okay so this year I’ve been on a MISSION to get healthy since previously in year 9 through 10 I was developing extremely unhealthy eating habits and, was overweight, couldn’t perform in sport the way I wanted and was depressed. I know other people want advice as a young student trying to get healthy so here’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I stopped buying unhealthy foods. Honestly this meant doing my RESEARCH and finding out what is good for my body and what isn’t. Writing a shopping list specific to the meals I knew I was going to make during the week and STICKING to this list. 

I joined sports I liked In my case this was going to weekly squash training, going on runs and doing heaps of interval training in my bedroom when I was crushed for time with a heavy workload.

I replaced my granola bars with fruit Snacking is something I do! and something that helps me throughout the day but I realised that those protein/granola bars I was eating were LOADED with sugar and were truly not healthy for me! So I stopped buying them!

I found a couple recipes I loved and rotated them! It’s about finding alternatives to the things you love and replacing them! e.g. whenever im on my period I halve a wrap, put some pasta sauce and cheese on it and put it on the sandwich press and have that instead of pizza with a heap of veg on the side!! Every now and again I get a heap of new recipes and change it up!

I forgave myself and allowed myself to enjoy unhealthy foods This might sound counter intuitive to some but if I’m out with friends, I’ll buy chips and a salad!! I didn’t punish myself for enjoying these treats, it’s just something I ate! I remind myself that I don’t have these things often and move on!

I started walking places That local shopping centre you need to go to for some supplies? Walk there! Your school is only a 30 minute walk? Go for it! Or even just going for a walk for the sake of going for a walk! Stuff like that is not only good for the soul, it can VASTLY improve your metabolism!! 

I became calorie conscious This meant I became AWARE of how many calories I was eating and how many I should be eating. I don’t count calories by any means, I’m just aware. This helped me realise that by eating ‘clean’ I was actually only eating around 1100 calories which was WAYYYYYY under the amount I should be eating for how active I am so I was able to increase my calories and feel SO much more energetic

I started eating more protein So i’m ‘flexitarian’? I guess? I don’t eat meat but I sometimes eat fish when I’m in a bind and I rarely eat dairy. Increasing your protein will speed up your metabolism because the body expends more trying to digest it. I increased my protein by eating a source of protein in every meal, protein powder with breakfast, eggs with lunch and maybe dinner or even with tuna! You DEFINITELY don’t need meat in every meal, that’s not what I’m saying. In fact, eating meat in every meal is very bad for you! Find other ways of incorporating protein, whether it be with yoghurt, eggs or tofu!

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you have to admit there are some joys in life that can only be felt due to hardship. a common example is steaming hot showers. it takes a cold day, or a sickness, for someone to experience the joy of a hot shower. you can’t enjoy it in the heat. then there’s the joy of a fulfilling sleep, often achieved through a tiring day. and there’s the joy of a reunion, achieved through separation. and there are many more examples. sometimes difficulty carries a special range of joys and that’s something to be thankful about.

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I love discovering etymological links between languages, like today I was talking to someone about how a circumflex in French indicates a lost s after the vowel and they were like “so même used to be mesme then?” And I was like “WAAAAH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE BECAUSE IT’S MISMO IN SPANISH THIS IS SO EXCITING” and this is probably why I don’t have friends

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That unstoppable girl that you’re envisioning, you’re her. She’s you. Go be her!

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05/01/16 ||| day 11/100 of productivity

i studied but i did not…

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helloooo :)