Pallas Gloriai

Data Analyst living in Girona. Currently studying MSc in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and learning Russian at the official language school. Passionate about Art History and Literature when I am not between data. Studyblr & Langblr 📝 Booknerd IG: @gloriaibars @pallasgloriai

[pallasgloriai]

🇩🇰 I bought some Danish biscuits to add a sweet touch to this exhaustive weekend.

📝 Next week I have my 🇷🇺Russian final exams and a final assignment of one of the subjects of my master's degree 👩‍💻

[americacontidied]

˖ ᡣ𐭩 ⊹ ࣪ ౨ৎ˚₊ I feel so bad for her. I wish I could go back and protect her, she didn't deserve any of that. She was failed way too early

[dostoyevsky-official]

[dostoyevsky-official]

[petaltexturedskies]

Marina Tsvetaeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters, Summer 1926

[heavensghost]

Marina Tsvetaeva

[apoemaday]

“Where Does Such Tenderness Come From?”

by Marina Tsvetaeva tr. Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine

Where does such tenderness come from? These aren’t the first curls I’ve wound around my finger — I’ve kissed lips darker than yours.

The sky is washed and dark (Where does such tenderness come from?) Other eyes have known and shifted away from my eyes.

But I’ve never heard words like this in the night (Where does such tenderness come from?) with my head on your chest, rest.

Where does this tenderness come from? And what will I do with it? Young stranger, poet, wandering through town, you and your eyelashes — longer than anyone’s.

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "We take the road of ordinary folk," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[irinasherry]

Frozen tears

[omenalehto]

one day in november

[omenalehto]

proper winter morning in november

[cozyacademia07]

2025 was the year I realized just how much doom scrolling has cost me. My reading capacity, memory, consistency, creativity, ability to keep working hard, etc etc. I used to be the kid with shelves of books and now I haven't read the ones I bought years ago. I can barely keep track of time and the days just fly by, I don't even know what I did during most of them. I obviously can work hard but not persistently, I've lost the ability to put in effort day by day to reap the reward in the end, I'm either hard on myself or I give up and stop caring when I don't achieve something immediately. I barely have any hobbies anymore, its been replaced by scrolling. This has generally been normalized so much tbh, so many people I know don't have hobbies anymore. Even my english is getting worse, while I know my native language instinctively, I hadn't realized that I had to keep reading to not forget vocabulary and basic grammar lol. But this is not who I want to be anymore. I don't like this version of myself, I don't want to be this stupid, useless, and incompetent. I want to change, I want to be better and do better for myself. I've been privileged enough to receive the sort of education and opportunities so many around the world have been denied. Hell, I do genuinely believe I have the brains, I've just not been using it right. I have tried to get my life before so many times before, but I hadn't properly realized where I was going wrong and I've never had the drive I have now. It won't be easy, but I hope 2026 is going to be my year

[keitoslifesource-blog]

october lectures and fresh air

[erbiumspectrum]

11 October 2025

I finally managed to catch up with the IR spectro lecture notes 😮‍💨 I took a nice walk and now I'm back home and about to revise some very basic matrix algebra before the seminar next week, but that should be a breeze - I've always loved matrices :)

[hayden-in-the-library]

#cozychallenge

It's been a while, everyone. And happy late Halloween :))

I have been so so extremely unmotivated and crazily busy at the same time. Good news: I submitted all of my early decision/action applications last week. Let's pray my dream school will admit me... plz plz

School has been busy. I have three tests and one big presentation next week. Wish me luck :\ I also have to get ready for my regular decision college apps so yay for that too... And my research is hectic recently, too. But it is fun and I like spending time with my teammates, I think.

I am really into dried fruit, recently. Especially dried cranberries and raisins. I have been eating raisins as small snacks everyday this week and it was lovely.

[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.

[katarinastudies]

20/10/2025

it feels like i can never appreciate october fully because there's always so much to do for school and work. i try to go on a walk (and find crunchy leaves to step on) whenever i can.

i spent the weekend getting my web app ready for testing this week (as part of my master's thesis). honestly i'm struggling to find meaning in my topic and wish i had chosen something different :') but oh well, just a few more months to go.