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daily grad school affirmations:

my paper is not that bad

my professor will not notice that i’m 100 words under the minimum word count

electronic records management is cool and sexy

i will not have a nervous breakdown

i am the smartest and most mysterious person on this discussion board

it’s totally fine and normal to consume 5 shots of espresso before lunch

#breaking the fourth wall #get a masters they said #it’ll be fun they said

ryrolie

bead neuron!

allsortsoffuckedup

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

adhd is fun because instead of doing my homework i get sidetracked and spend 3hrs reading Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

#breaking the fourth wall

poetrylesbian

memories-of-ancients

Late gothic sword with ornate carved ivory hilt, Europe, 15th-16th century

from The National Museum of Denmark

#artifacts

tanadrin

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

jadagul

https://xkcd.com/2567/

tanadrin

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

cherrystudies

10.9.2025

i think my russian cursive is coming along nicely :)

#русский язык

uispeccoll

#MiniatureMonday

Arabic Octagonal Qur’an

Likely produced during the tail end of The Islamic Golden Age, (ca 8th to 14th century) which was a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the greater Middle East, this remarkable miniature Qur'an is handwritten in fully vocalized Arabic on octagonal pages inside a gold border. It is contained in red spherical case with clasp, and the whole thing is preserved in a special case made by the University of Iowa conservation department.

Read more about it here

Check back in on Thursday for another book in Arabic from the archives!

–Diane R.

#archival materials

jamsandsuch

thanks to chatgpt we are losing the joy of the True Shitty Paper

mioritic

Posy ring, late Medieval period (15th century?), engraved with foliage and the motto "Je desir vous Ceruir" ("Je désire vous servir" / "I desire to serve you")

Discovered by a metal detectorist in Essex, 2023

Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service / BBC

#artifacts #medieval