Art By Simone Ferriero

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'No-one gets ink stains like yours out of a desire for money.'

Jo March, a protagonist of Louisa May Alcott's novel 'Little Women'

Ambition can dig like a needle; mostly, you have to pull a dream forward, but sometimes it pushes you. And it prods and bites and stings when things seem hopeless; when you have aspirations, the thought of them wilting wounds you like nothing else.

Life can seem like a series of wounds.

Much like ambition, the longing for love both pulls and pushes— but in which direction, who can say? The bright winds of freedom seem harsh without a hand to hold; and yet, the brightness of Summer love smothers without them.

for @hallucinating-antonym

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I love libraries SO much. If any of you see my book at your library can you please take a picture of it for me??? I haven't had the chance to hang out at a library properly for a few years so when we moved back to NZ it was on my priority list haha. The number of books that I take out at a time is definitely an exaggeration HAHA but I do often take out a few very heavy ones at the same time and it feels like a workout to bring them home. Searching through books always feels like an exciting treasure hunt.

self portrait

09/02/22

100 days of productivity: 40/100

let’s romanticise physics…?

I made these for my Instagram page last year, and I'm just reposting these notes here. They are on the integral form of Gauss' law, the first of Maxwell's equations. I guess this would have been better explained in a video but oh well.

Radio Astronomy

So I learnt something really cool today. Radio astronomy. Radio astronomy is done at ~ 1.4 GHz frequency. WHY YOU ASK??? Because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe!!! And hydrogen atoms have one electron !! Electrons possess spins!! Spins can flip!! And when they do, they emit a wavelength of 21 cm!! Which corresponds to a frequency of 1.4 GHz (f = c/λ). And since hydrogen is basically EVERYWHERE, they use that to observe celestial bodies and it is a very protected frequency which means radio stations, satellites and cellphone towers can't use it!!

26/01/22

100 days of productivity: 25/100

forgot to post yesterday but here are my phys notes!!

📍place of the day: Golden Gates, San Francisco

11/02/22

100 days of productivity: 42/100

writing up my rough class notes so they actually make sense :)

31/01/22

100 days of productivity: 31/100

happy lunar new year!!! 🧧🧧🧧

Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling