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28|10|2025

Master thesis adventures #05:

Finished writing notes for The Discovery Of Humanity by David Abulafia

Wrote down some thoughts and ideas inspired by said book

Emailed my advisor to give her a general update

Reread old notes of another class that I thought might be helpful and wrote down some stuff on my thesis commonplace book

Continued reading Amerigo Vespucci's letters

Wrote down notes for every letter I have read so far in my commonplace book

Looked for a book I heard about that might be useful for my thesis

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October 2nd, 2025

i had coffee and a pastry with my best friend in the morning, and then i got to pet her cats. a good start into the day <3 i also bought a used copy of Madame Bovary in french. it’s still too advanced for me, but i’m using it as study motivation.

today, i will:

check out a literary theory lecture about the fantastic and haunting

go to my evening class on information organization in libraries and archives. it’s four hours long, and it’s hard for me to concentrate so much in the evening. but i’m hopeful that i’ll get used to it over the course of the semester

finish reading "rubbish ecology"

make a few admin calls and reply to emails (the horrors)

pet sit for my parents

September 30th, 2025

my conference abstract got accepted! it's a rewarding feeling, and i'm motivated to work on the paper and to submit to other cfps. so that's nice. however, i'm also still feeling sick, which is frustrating. i'll do my best to rest today. my plans are:

drinking lots of tea and making ramen for lunch

starting a relaxing new novel

finishing my assigned reading for the first day of university tomorrow

teaching a short online class

replying to work mails and dealing with some problems surrounding my new apartment :/

watching sopranos and ordering food with my boyfriend in the evening

📘 80 books in 20 weeks

I know it looks like I’m posting the same photo over and over but in reality I’m just going to the same coffee shop and drinking the same americano and reading the same book lmao. Gorgeous weather ALL this week so it’s time to buckle down and read these here novels.

Dissolving in Light - Sasha Hartslief , 2020.

South African , b. 1974 -

I ran out of a yarn colour mid-way through knitting this bee motif.

Initially this was frustrating - I have to put the project on hold whilst I order more yarn. However, having had time to reflect, I think I will un-do this section and re-knit it with a new and improved bee design. See below.

V1 is over-engineered for the medium.

V2 is simpler, involves far fewer long yarn floats, and comes with a greater BPI (bees per inch).

See the left image for a row of condemned strawberries; and the right image for an improved second attempt.

There are still ends to weave in, though not as many as you might think as I did quite a lot of them as I was going along. Will post again when it's blocked 🌻🧶