put in work

hi i'm mari! i’m working as an accountant in pursuit of my CPA. i'm so happy you stopped by. (i follow from @musiqueinmymind)

[my-studyblr]

i’m going to reach my goal this year. i’m going to work so fucking hard and make no more shitty excuses. 

[alwaysbeenjessica]

warming up the mind with journaling and drawing before sitting at my desk ✦

[matchafigs]

this morning

[emgoesmed]

4/27/2026

Coffee and matcha kinda day

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

get it done the weird way. do it in parts. do it “wrong”. do it “late”. do it scared. it’s just better to do it differently than everyone else rather than never do it.

[tea-tuesday]

empties (bar prep edition) — i passed the bar exam!!! these are all the pens, highlighters, and white-out i used to study :D once i am fully registered, i will be tea-tuesday, esq.

i'm SO relieved. it's fun to go back and look back at my posts from this summer. although i wish i had posted more, i was so nervous about not passing that i didn't want to take too much time out of studying to take pictures and post them :((

[tea-tuesday]

this is the first time using a hobonichi weeks and i'm really enjoying it!! many a thoughts below......

i bought my 2025 hobonichi weeks planner a few weeks before it started so i decided to experiment with layouts and styles in the back for the last few weeks of 2024. you can really see the evolution from the week of Oct 28 to the week of Nov 18, e.g., how i went from one highlighter color (purple) to a whole system that i'll be carrying into 2025 :))) the colors i chose for the week of Nov 11 were so ugly that no one will be seeing that lolol. one issue is that i still don't know what to do with the empty page on the right side. i did a reflection on nyc one week but i'm not always in a reflective mode (i also do reflections on my life in my vent journal). i tried the alastair method but it usually takes me multiple weeks to complete a task. it was still helpful to see what i eventually need to do so i think the right side will be a very fluid system that changes based on my needs week-to-week. for now, i've been keeping an ongoing "interest log" and writing down quotes and poems that speak to me that week. i might implement a mini habit tracker too since i'm not great at maintaining my daily habits

my "aesthetic" goal for 2025 is for my planner to look as used and loved as possible! i'm not much of an artist nor a memory keeper (i have my 5-year planner for memory keeping) and i don't like keeping receipts but i made a better effort at preserving cute stickers and things from cafés and bookstores and other places (but only if i think they look good hahah). i also want my stickers and washi tape to look cohesive but it's a little hard for me because i operate on vibes (both artistically and generally) and never took any art classes or anything so idk if anything will look as "aesthetically pleasing" as i want it to. the only thing that saves me is my neat handwriting. but! my ultimate goal is to not be so hard on myself about how my planner looks since it's meant to be a functional tool. i do think i'm doing a good job on keeping it true to myself and my life 😎

anyway that was my ted talk and thank you if you made it this far!! qs for anyone who wants to answer: what is your 2025 lineup? are there any things you're bringing into 2025? what's your planner philosophy? i'd love to know !

[tea-tuesday]

wanted to share the first two weeks of my 2025 hobonichi weeks !! there’s not much rhyme or rhythm but it’s been incredibly helpful tracking/planning all my social events and invites 😙 it also got a little wet from the rain a few days ago, which ruined the top of the pages but oh well…..

[alwaysbeenjessica]

planning my 2026 journal ecosystem ✸

[alwaysbeenjessica]

reading + knitting

[thewhimsicalarchives]

Success will find you in different ways.

[erbiumspectrum]

21 June 2026 ☀️☀️☀️

It's been well over 30°C here for several days now and I am being boiled alive. This awful weather really doesn't make studying the most boring subject ever molecular modeling any easier. I finished reading Glory by Vladimir Nabokov yesterday and it was so good I didn't want to part with the book when I was done with it ahaha I just carried it around for a little longer. Highly recommend if you're into classics

[writingitpurple]

2025. 10. 22 | Wednesdays are always so slow.

Refreshing on thermodynamics in the context of microbiology and it's so slow. That's ok tho.

My priorities this week:

Thermodynamics/bioenergetics → what does that mean for my bugs?

Bioreactor cycle study

Brainstorming future RQs

Prepping for 3 month agreement meeting

I've taken to using my journal notebook to stay engaged with my project. Disconnecting so hard, esp on my commute or over the weekend, makes it hard for me to get back into the material and I'm realizing that the effort it takes for me to think about my project during non-work hours is less than the work it takes for me to reconnect with what I had done previously during work hours.

Not deep-work stuff. Just lightly thinking about my project. Idk what kind of toll it'll take to sort of mull over my research questions super casually, but for now it's working.

[heartcarmilla]

pov trying to study but you have a cat

[forever-in-earnest]

Beloved professor has not been responding to my humble messages about the modus operandi of his generous test so. Self test at 6pm it is.

22nd January 2025

[preksthinksthings]

I was kinda missing my old desk setup today

[pefkaes]

10.06.2026 // digital detox hours

realised that i've been spending way too much time online, so decided to do a digital detox for a few hours (after taking aesthetic photos, of course). my friend and i, sitting beside each other in quiet intimacy at the community library—me, journalling and reading; her, translating from sinhala to english.