Eilidh studies

she/her | Autistic | learning Japanese & Gaelic | BA linguistics & literature: Latin and Ancient Greek

[eilidhstudies]

Introduction!

Hi! I'm Eilidh and I'm an Autistic language learner, currently studying Japanese (N3), Scots Gaelic (A2), and Polish (A1). I speak English and Dutch.

Besides language learning I also enjoy reading and crochet. I must admit though that I don't read nearly as much as I'd like.

I have no idea how tumblr works so please lmk if I'm doing anything wrong lmao

[eilidhstudies]

08.02.24

I accidentally disappeared but I decided to be back here because instagrams algorithm is simply atrocious and sometimes girls just need attention (i am girls)

today I:

- got my exam grades back 🥲 I failed three out of five exams

- planned a few feedback sessions for those exams

- got train tickets for a trip to antwerp soon! going to see Nothing More it's so exciting but I'm also scared because I've never been to a concert before, and I'm going alone

- caught up on greek from last semester

(these photos are not from today btw I don't have any photos of today but considering I haven't posted here in a while, I thought older photos would be okay)

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photo 1: reading the homeric hymns (which I've now finished) with a cup of tea

photo 2: dyed my hair pink

photo 3: an ed recovery win, got a hot chocolate and a donut

photo 4: reading theocritus' idylls with another cup of tea

[eilidhstudies]

🍵 02.12.23

today I:

- watched the european lit lecture that I missed earlier

- watched the greek lecture that I also missed

- studied for my latin linguistics test

- did my daily latin + greek vocab

- also did a tiny bit of gaelic and japanese!!

[eilidhstudies]

❄️ 01.12.23

I can't believe it's actually december already tf

today I:

- skipped my classes 🤭 I woke up annoyed and just went back to sleep. in my defense, it was freezing and my chronic pain gets worse when it's cold so it's basically just self care

- organised my notes on Lysias

- practised greek verbs for 30 minutes (I don't do this every day like I thought I would, but hey sometimes I do)

- took notes on greek literary history

- tried to read something in German! I just want to practise reading in German again because apparently it's an important language in classics, with a lot of research being done in that language. tbh it went quite well!

- did my daily Latin + Greek vocab

[eilidhstudies]

🕯 30.11.23

let's pretend the past few days didn't happen ok 🫡

today I:

- had my general linguistics lecture

- had lunch with friends

- started working through chapter 14 of linguistics but didn't manage to finish the whole chapter

- studied some greek verbs

- did a little bit of greek literary history

- did my daily Latin + Greek vocab

[eilidhstudies]

🐝 27.11.23

today I:

- went to this group reading session at my uni on latin poetry. I did not know there would be two of my professors joining so that felt kind of awkward. All the other ppl were phd students (I'm a first year bachelors student). I couldn't really join the conversation because everyone knew and understood things that I didn't

- had my first meeting with a psychologist about my ed relapse. I am tired

- finished reading babel. the ending killed me.

- tried to do some greek linguistics but tbh I have no focus in me so I'm just going to bed

[eilidhstudies]

🌙 26.11.23

too tired to talk about today. see you tomorrow 💤

[eilidhstudies]

📚 25.11.23

saturday is cafe day 🤭 I go to the same cafe every time because apparently I'm autistic

today I:

- watched a european lit lecture in the cafe

- translated a little bit of Lysias ("on the murder of Eratosthenes") (the translation pictured in the notebook isn't mine though, I like to use the translation from the loeb edition to study the text bc I don't trust myself to have a good translation)

- read a few pages from How To Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke

- started reading Hippolytus by Euripides for my greek literature class

- did my daily latin + greek vocab

[eilidhstudies]

🌈 24.11.23

I skipped my classes and only went to take a Latin test because I just didn't have the energy 🥲

Today I:

- read a bit from Mystery Cults in the Ancient World + Babel

- finally got some groceries and new tea 🍵

- read through chapter 8 of latin linguistics

- studied Latin + Greek vocab

[eilidhstudies]

🌈 23.11.23

For some reason I did not take any photos today 😔

today was kinda weird tbh, I had a linguistics lecture in the morning which went pretty well but when I went home after that I randomly almost had a meltdown?? I don't know why

the rest of the day I felt a bit weird but I'm autistic so I couldn't tell you *what* I felt

anyway, today I:

- had a general linguistics lecture

- did most of my reading for european literature - that sounds like I'm doing well however this is actually what I was supposed to do a week ago, I'm chronically playing catch up

- had a greek literary history lecture which was quite fun! I almost didn't go because of said almost-meltdown but I'm glad I went

- studied latin + greek vocab

[eilidhstudies]

🪐 22.11.23

I had a pretty good day! it wasn't even *that* productive if I think about it but the vibes were better than yesterday ✨

today I:

- did my morphology homework

- read through chapter 13 of general linguistics (I still need to take notes on this chapter but I'll do that later this week)

- did my daily 30 minutes of greek verbs - it's still a lot but I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of it

- read some things online about egyptian demotic just for funsies

- read a lot of Babel! I'm obsessed with this book

- had a Latin linguistics lecture, I did go home early but at least I tried

- studied greek & latin vocab. I have a latin vocab test on friday, I definitely do not know everything yet, but I'm sure it'll be fine

[eilidhstudies]

☔️ 20.11.23

not rlly vibing with today, wasn't very productive, at least I took a shower and went out to print some things

[eilidhstudies]

🐿 19.11.23

the mood swings are real because one moment I'll be like "I can't believe I'm studying classics this is a dream!!" and an hour later I'm questioning my entire existence

anyway today I:

- reviewed the translation of a letter of pliny the younger (this was when I was feeling so optimistic. it wasn't a difficult text at all)

- translated a bit of seneca's apocolocyntosis (idk if I spelled that right, can't be bothered to check) (this was a bit harder)

- read a bit from Babel

- did 30 minutes of greek verbs and decided to do that every day because boy this is never ending

- went on the shortest walk ever (photo for proof because ik it's unheard of)

- did a bit of greek literary history

- I'm looking at my planning for today and apparently I did some Latin linguistics? can't remember that though

- did a ton of vocab! I have a latin vocab test next week and it’s a lot 🫡

[eilidhstudies]

🍁 18.11.23

I did feel a bit better today compared to yesterday though chronic pain is still being a bitch and I didn't have the money to do my usual saturday cafe trip (my fault for buying a book earlier this week, I knew I couldn't actually afford it 😭)

today I:

- watched the recording of the greek lecture that I missed yesterday

- read quite a bit of Babel

- continued going through the chapter on the aorist in greek (why is this chapter so long)

- did like two hours of greek literary history but didn't actually make a lot of progress..

- did my anki reviews for latin + greek

[eilidhstudies]

🌸 17.11.23

Had a low energy day so I spent quite some time in bed and I skipped my classes 🥲

I did catch up on european literature, watched the lecture that I missed on monday, reviewed some greek verbs, and did my translation for Latin (which I did cover up in the photo because it's probably a shitty ass translation and I don't need you to judge me xx)

[eilidhstudies]

🍄 16.11.23

I didn't have a great day, got pretty stressed because I am always behind on things and idk how I'm ever going to catch up on things ✨

today I:

- had a general linguistics lecture and asked the professor a question (I'm mentioning this bc I'm bad at asking questions and I'm proud of myself for asking a question this time)

- studied linguistics for about an hour at the library

- did a little bit of greek linguistics, started on the chapter on the aorist

- started catching up on my reading for european lit but let's be honest I could've made way more progress today

- actually did ALL of my anki reviews

[eilidhstudies]

I'm just trying to write something here every day just to reflect on my day and also because I genuinely have memory issues and I want to remember everything 🥹