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Today I spent a few hours in the library and made some notes for my thesis defense. They sent me an email this morning and told me to go do it on Monday, so I'm feeling kind of nervous. A friend has told me she wants to listen to me practice tomorrow and that she will try her best to ask mean questions to prepare me (my kind of friend).

I think I haven't said this before, but my thesis is on contemporary theatre, which is what I'm most interested in pursuing when I think about a career in academia.

On another note, I spent the whole morning listening to Chopin and I really like it :). I figured getting into classical music one musician at a time would be easier.

Tomorrow the application period for masters programs is also starting, which I'm not chill about at all. It will be tomorrow when I know if the program I'm interested in has any space for me to enroll. Anyway, I sort of manifested it too hard this past month for it to be any other way, right? ...right?

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

“I'm a master of speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence”.

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit.

god can i Please have an adaptation of the idiot set in modern day st. petersburg with nastasya filippovna as the main focus like i'm dying i'm starved she doesn't get enough attention or analysis in anything

Czeslaw Milosz, from “Ode,” in New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[text ID: O October Season of poetry, of the total daring Of starting one’s life at every moment anew,]

Private international law 💀

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

never not thinking about elliott smith's hampshire college thesis, 1991