April 5th, 2025

24.05.2021 // i love visiting my parents because my mom always makes some wonderful cakes. eating, drinking coffee and reading are the most important things in this family. this explains why i read so many books at home. i usually finish a book every two days which is really good for me. and this is the only reason why i still can keep up with my storygraph reading challenge.

07.04.2025 // First entry!

Now starting this new side blog because I really wanted to journal my studies and maybe find some long lost motivation for the new semester on the way.

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Today's accomplishments: ☆

4 hour reading session for my Erinnerungskultur course

highlighted relevant sections

organized the material for the new semester

got some cleaning done along the way

April 22nd, 2025

Tuesday already but I still have this week off. However, I'll have to start working a bit today as there's a pile of exams to grade and some classes to plan waiting for me. My plan is to do something during the day and work 1-2 hours each night. That way it'll still feel like vacation.

To do for today:

- get an overview of the things I have to do before school starts

- prepare one exam

- grading

A Walk at Dusk (detail) Caspar David Friedrich ca.1830-35

"Kikyo's Stolen Ashes" Inuyasha: Season 1, Episode 14 (2001)

a need

Went to Vienna in February '25 to visit the archive and attend a conference. The archive wasn't very successful, so instead I saw lots of impressionist art!

22.4.25

Coffee this morning - reading ‘On writing well’ by William Zinsser.

Watched a webinar on GI pathologies and pulmonary fibrosis.

Did some data/SQL review.

“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”

—Emily Henry, Book Lovers

Had a chill day with my sister to make up for this hellish week.

Didn't manage to study MOM or complete the CompSec notes, the report I submitted for PosGeo was an absolute -100, and I have to go to uni on Sunday to try and get something done for the MOM project. So yay ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

I'm alive though, and yesterday I tried on dresses I never would have tried on before, I ate a bagel at a trendy place, and I had some greek yoghurt with granola at this posh brunch place. Browsed some legos and books, and bought my sister her presents for her birthday. So idk, maybe it's not all about uni and getting good grades or living up to a certain arbitrary standard. I need to be okay with failing, and I need to know life can be good regardless.