#moonglow rambles

Woke up at 6 AM, and did some light dissertation reading before making breakfast. It was a good day till afternoon hit and brought along a wave of sudden drop in motivation. My head felt it was buzzing and I couldn't suddenly concentrate on the words. So I took it easy and decided to not set strict goals. And thankfully! I felt better.

Makes me realize about the trick people talk about- 'do it for 30 min, if even then you can't seem to do anything, atleast you did work for 30 min!'

Book- Timothy Clark's introduction to ecocriticism.

Song- Page by Got7

Greetings! I've had a fairly productive day today. Annotated an essay that was to be discussed in a zoom session tomorrow and also got started with my readings for the thesis.

There are days I wake up in absolute horror of being left behind, when my peers are rowing ahead in speed and clarity. I'm still trying to come to terms with sheer madness that is self confidence. Imposter syndrome is real and so is self sabotage. I'm just trying to calm myself down and do my best right now.

Hello to all the beautiful souls here! Sunday calls for fun and relaxation, but I've spent it working (not complaining though! I have a class to attend and needed to catch up on some readings.)

Sadly it was the last session with one of my professors today whose classes I had thoroughly enjoyed. I do get clingy 😂 so I was sort of grieving (?) Lol.

PS- my friend drew an emoji on the pdf of the reading we were supposed to read to 'express her sentiments'. When emoji takes over 😅

Today is a holiday! But that also meant helping mum with groceries and festive lunch. Anyhow, I still got in a decent amount of work done before attending a quick zoom lecture with my professor.( Extra session for backlogged discussion on Judith Butler)

Post that, paid a visit to the nearby bookstore and thrifted a few books.

Books thrifted-

A wide Sargasso sea by Jean Rhys.

The Dark holds no terrors by Shashi Deshpande.

Tea for two and a piece of cake by Preeti Shenoy.

Weekends mean classes for me. My research coursework has literary criticism and today's focus is on Timothy Clark's essays on literature and environment.

Meanwhile, I'm also reading Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh and it's been so good so far! Really excited to find out the different themes I can deduce out of this.

Baked in the evening to relax and enjoyed a beautiful smelling home.