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20 • English Lit and Archaeology at McGill • Main blog: frznsquid

[isayaki]

lazy monday, doing nothing except drinking iced chai lattes and studying japanese

currently listening: rain falls when you are leaving — jannabi

ig: isadoeslife

[huitingreads]

truly can’t wait for this semester to end so i can dig into the books i want to pick up

[cawefee]

“faintly visible.”🕸

ig: cawefee

[notebookist]

some nights it's just me and my milk tea against the world

[maryindecember]

So July is already here, and with that Moscow has heavy rains. We are expected to have this kind of weather for two weeks. ( I’m crying inside)

I really like “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by  Katsushika Hokusai. It looks so magical and mighty. And my favorite color is blue. So combining two of them was a winning combination. Also with summer time comes traveling and vacations, I going to be stuck in the city, I need something to make me feel vacation like. ( I want to visit Japan one day)

I incorporated much more spreads than in June, so I could track everything in my life. I’ve never made mood tracker before, it would be nice to see how many mood swings I’m going to have in July.

I’ve decided to bring my playlist back, become music is so important to me.

Over all I’m extremely happy with the way it turned out. It might become my favorite month in bujo. Have a great July :)

Supplies used:

tombow dual brush pen #553

edding 1340 #10

edding 1880 #0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4

muji gel pen #0.38/black

[cafe-study]

08.10.20 | don’t be like me and wait until the day before / the day of to work on the entire methodology chapter of your dissertation. trust me on this one. (but sometimes the added pressure helps me work better??? weird)

[notebookist]

take me back to a peaceful sunday spent eating pancakes and journaling please

[eintsein]

25 Oct 20 🌿 today’s study situation: trying desperately to prove np-completeness for algo (aka introduction to analysis of algorithms) which is definitely my toughest class this semester but I’m doing my best! how are y’all doing?

🎧: trouble’s coming - royal blood

[bulletnotestudies]

23.10.2020 // continuing the old bujo spreads series

day 23 - Tag someone whose blog you always check

@study-van i literally visit your blog every day bc a) your photos are always lovely and exactly the kind of content i love, b) your personal text posts / updates? pricelessly relatable and most often beautifully catered to my med student crumbling psyche, and c) i have to check on u bc you’re my friend and i obviously want to know what’s going on with you so i can then yell at you in the dms :) i don’t want this to turn into an essay so yasemin, you’re one of my absolute fave people and my closest friend on here, sending u hugs and i hope you survived the week fine ♡

[ohk4te]

a monday to-do list of academic proportions (feat. the sun trying real hard to shine and a rather spectacularly dust-covered bookend)

[earlymoderngothic]

20th October 2020: Still editing.

listening to: can’t sleep - loco feat. heize

[acadernia]

092920. first day of classes! it's an easy day for me—i've only got one class in the afternoon—so i spent the morning wrapping up some homework for tomorrow with some tea (it's getting chilly out!)

[jinjii-kikko]

tue // 25 aug

is pre-birthday anxiety a thing? i always end up in a weird funk in the days leading up to my birthday. on top of getting older in general, approaching my late 20s offers me little comfort lol. on the bright side, i’m seeing my family this weekend and my coworkers organized a small [social distancing] boba hour for me at work tomorrow that i’m looking forward to!

in the meantime i’ve been trying to keep myself preoccupied so i don’t think too much about it. currently prepping for a few interviews i’m conducting for work at the end of the week and spending my spare time digging into the divine comedy, which i’m really enjoying so far. can’t believe it’s historical fact that dante created self-insert fanfic

[jinjii-kikko]

thu // 10 sept

the weather in the bay area has been so eerie this week because of the fires all over the west coast. yesterday i woke up at 7am and thought it was 5 since it was so dark outside. there’s so much ash and smoke in the air, but at least the lack of sun coming through means our marine layer hangs around all day and mitigates some of the effects. this also means it’s been surprisingly cold—we just had 100+ degree weather over labor day weekend and now it’s in the 60s.

everyone around here keeps remarking on how they’ve never seen anything like this and it honestly freaks me out. i worry about what we might see in years to come. anyone reading this who lives on the west coast, i hope you’re safe and able to stay indoors!

Keep reading

[jinjii-kikko]

mon // 21 sept

spent half the weekend painting my bedroom at my parents’ house with my siblings, which turned out to be a fun bonding activity! we blasted old john mayer and ne-yo albums which i’m sure our neighbors got a kick out of. it’s immensely satisfying finishing a paint job but there was some sadness about it, too, like saying a little goodbye to the walls of my childhood. i’ll miss the bright green walls that were here before. but it also feels sort of like a refresh, not so much a clean slate that’s erased all the old memories, but a new slate for future ones to be made.

the rest of the weekend i got through most of kazuo ishiguro’s never let me go. i finished the rest of it today. the first time i tried to read it was in middle school and i barely got past chapter 2. maybe i was too young to get through it then, being a middle schooler who didn’t care much for any book that felt very introspective and wasn’t forthcoming with its world building. so it surprised me quite a bit how quickly i got through it this time around, and how profoundly it affected me. i highly recommend it, as well as his other book the remains of the day, and i have a pale view of hills on my reading list next. there’s just something about the way he ends his novels that gets me thinking about my own life.

autumn is finally upon us, northern hemisphere friends! hope everyone has a cozy, productive week :-)

[on-the-heath]

working from the coffee table today for a change of pace

[asteriscuz]

more espresso less depresso