look after yourselves

- Scribbling linguistic definitions in the margins of notebooks

- Empty notebooks lined up neatly on shelves ( you swear you’ll use them someday when the time is right. you don’t want to ruin a perfectly blank book just yet.)

- The front divider of your binder is about to fall apart, but you can’t quite replace it - you’re not sure why, but it means something to you now.

- Wishing you’d established a consistent highlighter colour code at the start of the year, but life isn’t always that simple. You resort to choosing the colour based on how you feel that day. You’re inexplicably more satisfied with this

- Maybe you wanted to choose literature, language had been a relentless subject the previous year, but you find yourself falling deeper and deeper in love with the somewhat scientific feel of the essays you write.

- Realising you’re really not as familiar with the subject terminology as you should be; Mixing up adjectives and adverbs, despite how sure you were of the difference. You can’t help it sometimes.

- The history of the English Language is where you really started to get invested. You learn about the hybridic nature of English, which at its most basic, is an excuse to pick up Latin in your own time, just for fun.

- Realising that kids are incredible for acquiring language so fast. This class really makes people want to have a domestic life. Not you, but you can appreciate the complexity of it.

- Realising that books, regardless of target age, are intricately designed. Children’s books are surprisingly deep and meaningful when you take the right perspective. Maybe they’re written for the parents as well as the children.

01.24.20 | friday morning planning 💫😌

it has been a pretty decent week! highlights:

i’ve gotten up to speed on some of the back-end tasks of my research work.

finished both assignments for my engineering courses.

started more rigorously studying for the qualifying exam.

started outlining my conference paper.

made edits to my grant proposal.

yoga (2x) and lunch with friends (2x). 

still have some stuff i want to take care of today, too:

research meeting.

send some emails.

finish some programming homework with a classmate.

Old memories…

Pt. 5

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