mark's studying.

September 11, 2025

Library kind of morning, in the company of an extremely interesting book on gender and how it permeates every aspect of our life.

📖 currently reading: Language and Gender - P. Eckert, S. McConnell-Ginet

24.08.25 Sunday.

The first week of classes wasn’t as productive as I had hoped, but, you know what? It’s okay. Returning to the studying routines is sometimes hard and it’s alright.

I did blissfully nothing yesterday. Which was much needed, and it allowed me to be surprisingly productive today. It wasn’t purely studying, but also there’s other tasks in life, yep.

✔️veggies sauté cooked & dishes done

✔️ laundry done

✔️ grocery shopping done

✔️ budgeting/money counting done

✔️ lab prep for tomorrow done (1h 20min on 🌳 in total)

Did hope to complete some other hw too, but I’ll have time to do it tomorrow. Today was good. Slow and steady. One day at a time.

🎵Of Monsters and Men are dropping a new album. Am I excited? I’m hella excited. Love them.

09.16.2025

took some time, but i’m settled into a new apartment and the new job. i feel like i’m finally at a point where i can shape my life around the things i really want to be engaging with… so that’s what i’ve been up to.

playing gigs with a 60’s reggae band and a 90’s rock band, taking salsa classes, (i’m abysmal) spending time with the people important to me, knitting and crafting and reading whenever i can, weekly movie nights with my friend. i’m glad this is how my 20’s are looking.

(p.s. does anybody remember when i had a pixie cut TT.TT it’s finally grown out lolol, 2 years and some change later. friendly reminder that short hair is not in fact less work than long hair!)

september 17, 2025 ☕️ cinnamon lattes are basically keeping me sane. later last night, i decided to journal and threw myself into a crisis. time is going so fast, i have two weeks to finish an article and six weeks to have at least a full draft of my final thesis. sometimes i think i won't make it in time

maybe finish reading that thesis??? almost there, though

finish Accomplice to the Villain not the best one in the series, but i really liked the ending

wash linens

Thursday, 11th September 2025

A chilled morning getting through some of my YouTube watch later + a long walk accompanied by Tool’s Lateralus + a bit of academic reading to finish reviewing the required papers for this year’s distant universe module :)

03.09.25

Ok so I definitely have a bad cold. I was sneezing and coughing a ton, and didn’t have any masks so i decided not to go to my classes yesterday and today — hate missing class this early in the semester but I think it was the right thing to do, I slept a ton. Today I was able to rally and go to the library (to a tiny, well ventilated study room so I wouldn’t cough on anyone), and cranked out a lot of reading and catch-up notes.

Very much in love with my Kindle Scribe (not an ad lol) — being able to annotate all my readings in pdf form without printing them out is awesome. I can also sketch on it, which is amazing. I did some thumbnails for my first printmaking assignment, and am pretty happy with them.

September 4th, 2025