Grad School: A Memoir

A blog to document my decent into the void of graduate school. Emily / MA student / Drama and Perfomance Studies / I will be so successful Stephen Greenblat will write me into his will /  Cis Pronouns Her/She Background by skypard

[happyheidi]

[darkacademyrimbaud]

l'esthétique de l'académie sombre

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: __suzannah

[spectrologie-deactivated2023041]

New Orleans, Louisiana // Valerie Esparza

[mountainnamemama-deactivated202]

Looking for something new to me | Far Forest , Seminole Heights, Tampa, Florida, United States

[africanaquarian]

Every goddamn week white ppl post some disgusting, unprovoked shit

[ororomunroedontpullout]

And if poc were saying this people would call it abuse....

[slightlycrookedletters]

... they're talking about children, who need the whole soap and shampoo routine a lot less often than post puberty humans. The main purpose of baths in the pre puberty age range is to remove dirt and sweat or other debris, since children take a lot longer to stink or need to wash their hair. Being in a pool does that. I don't see how that could be considered abuse regardless of race.

[africanaquarian]

[aaliyahbreaux]

yall smell sum?

[mrdsc1010]

[mrbenibo]

[bihet-dragonize]

Do they know......that you're not supposed to fucking leave chlorine on your skin even from a swimming pool?? Like aside from the whole "my kid basically stays clean by swimming in (very diluted) chlorine" issue and their kid not....fucking showering, do they know that you're supposed to shower after a swim to wash the fucking chlorine off??? Do. They. Know????????????

[purrseus-deactivated20191103]

Hey, former lifeguard here!

My partner is trained as a pool operator, and we both have pretty intimate knowledges of how pool filtering and operation works. Something, first off, to know is that pools are ABSOLUTELY filthy. Chlorine levels are severely impacted by dirt and debris (which is also why you absolutely must shower before you enter a pool) and the more dirty people in a pool, the more chlorine is bonded with that dirt and the lower the chlorine level gets. Other chemicals like bromine destabilize when they’re oxygenated (in this case, water movement oxygenates bromine) and that chemical is released, also throwing off pool chemicals. 

Dirt doesn’t magically disappear once you enter a chlorinated pool- it stays in there. I know you didn’t really want to think about all the sweat, urine, feces (because lets face it, kids are bad at wiping at traces remain on the body, coming off in the pool) and dirt you’ve been essentially swimming around in at every pool you’ve ever been to in your life, but that’s the truth of it. That’s why pool staff are adamant about shoes OFF on deck and people showering before you get in. 

Plus, I don’t trust people with pools in their backyards for ONE SECOND to be maintaining proper pool chemistry. All of these nasty ass parents are letting their kids sit in their filth for days on end. Above is correct- you HAVE to wash chlorine off. 

TL;DR : chlorine doesn’t fix everything, you have to shower before and after being in a swimming pool, and all these facebook parents are fucking disgusting. 

[madgastronomer]

ALWAYS SHOWER BEFORE AND AFTER SWIMMING, FFS.

[english-idylls]

Details from John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1851-52).

[the-bookshop]

Source.

[bills-skarsgards]

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night.

ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[tothewordgarden]

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

[english-idylls]

Details of John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (1888).

[prettypaperandpens]

27.04.16 don’t skive off school kids, unless you only have PE in the afternoon and there is a great coffeeshop round the corner to revise in

[artist-millais]

Joan of Arc, John Everett Millais

Medium: oil,canvas

[cozyism]

i’m curled up underneath the covers today because 1) it’s warm and 2) how does one argue with reason #1? honestly.

[windflowerfairy]

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

[floralls]

London by  by Ksenia Skos

[flourilegia]

bedroom aesthetics