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[galina]

Is iced coffee season over? (Say it’s not so) @warmhealer​

[sincerelyvalentina-deactivated2]

12.19.19 — day filled with cute coffee shop corners and books. not complaining.

[boringangel]

https://instagram.com/p/BXRP9wSAK_J/

[violetsnotebook-archive]

06.08.20 / i’ve been so busy lately with errands it feels so good to finally return to the usual today. russian notes ft. the plant corner in my study. hope your week has been fruitful so far. hang in there ♡

[7jungri]

Astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, 1890-1920

[stillstudies]

ok so I was going to write a different caption for this but I honestly have no idea wtf I’m doing right now lol. so far this quarter has been the busiest I’ve ever had- I’m taking 19 credits (the highest I’ve ever taken), started working at my first internship, doing work with some community activist organizations, planning what my life is going to look like over the next year, not to mention… surviving during an election year in a global pandemic). needless to say, I am very tired. it’s all just a lot and last week I finally burnt out. 

tbh it feels wrong to complain about everything I’m doing because it’s all stuff that I genuinely love (other than analyzing founding father speeches for my communication of public address class) but I guess I really just have to keep reminding myself that work is work, and productivity isn’t admirable if you never take a break. you don’t have to earn the right to rest- what’s important is that you prioritize it. my life will work itself out one way or another. everything is going to be okay. sending you lots of love xxx

[captainofstudies]

16/10/2020 | I have so much work to do and I have a presentation this afternoon that I'm only halfway through making so I got up at 6am and I feel like shit

[caeruleuz]

just took my first exam in months and oh boy, i never want to do these 4.5hrs again

[areistotle]

22/10/2020

Happy autumn everyone! 🍁 How did you spend your summer? I spent mine primarily reading really good books (both for pleasure and for my next dissertation) and going swimming, but I also started writing letters again which has been quite relaxing! 💌

more on my instagram @aristotelian

[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 :-)

[slomedico]

via tinakunakey

[falleangels]

[drip-2-hard]

[dewylids]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd5B5GnBUre/

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry, September 1st 1938.

[spiralstudy]

happy new month ✨🐇🌱

[slfcare]

things i wish i’d been told sometimes

𓂃 your life revolves around you and it always has. if you feel the need to stop and catch your breath, do it. time moves forward, but your life will never be able to continue without you. 

𓂃 the way people talk to you about others is a direct reflection of how they talk to others about you. remember that. 

𓂃 life is too short to stay quiet. your voice carries you as much as you carry your voice. 

𓂃 nobody pays as much attention to you as you think they do. 

𓂃 nobody’s expecting you to do something useful every day. you shouldn’t expect that from yourself either. 

𓂃 nothing that matters to you is useless. if it’s important to you then it’s important, period.

𓂃 don’t live every day like it’s your last–rather like it’s your first. get to know your space, get comfortable where you aren’t yet, try new things but not everything at once. and look forward to things that are coming. 

𓂃 you’re only responsible for what you can control and influence. focus on that. 

𓂃 stop trying to be okay all the time. you do not have to be okay all the time.

𓂃 it’s more common to have a soft and protecting tummy than to have flat abs. both is healthy, both is pretty. 

𓂃 your teens are not your only chance on having a good, fulfilled, and social life. if you can’t find your place in high school you will in another environment. this isn’t where it ends. 

𓂃 you have the right to change your mind over and over and over again until you’re happy.