weekly read + wool gloves

These artworks by Lesley Oldaker

feel similar to: China Miéville’s The City & the City

ohhh the woes of a non existent fandom. no one knows what i mean when i say "we makin it out of bezsel with this one 🔥🔥🔥" and they're all throwing rocks at me and going "booo" and just generally giving me a thumbs down 👎

11|01|2026

Cheers to the mess, the long awaited bookshelf reorganization is finally happening!

📖🎧: The Days Of The Comet by HG Wells

It's all done! I now have to pick all the books to put on my tbr shelf in my room!

cold city hot coffee

27 December 2025 ☁️

Reading a lot, studying very little, it's been a while since I last got to spend my time like this

monday | january 5

drinking from the glug (gel electrophoresis mug) and reading some papers for my bio capstone project.

i had my first grad school interview today – i think it went well, but i'm trying to put it out of my mind as much as possible. nothing to do now except prep for the next one.

8 January 2026 🌤️

It was -12°C this morning and I thought my fingertips would straight up fall off when I took a glove off to extract a tissue out of the package 💀 Other than that I like to think I'm a pro at braving Polish winters: I'm wearing enough layers not to get cold ☝️

Catalysis lab was going suspiciously well today until I hooked up my two products to the rotovap - it took alarmingly long to concentrate them and now I'm worried I somehow messed up the previous step (liquid-liquid extraction) whoops. I'll find out next week when the GC-MS results come in. If everything turns out right though, that'll be my last catalysis lab! So close to not spending 10 h a day at uni lol

21.12.25

35/100

I made the yummiest sandwich this morning!!

I did a LOT of household work today so I treated myself to a pumpkin scone and a cookie afterwards. It was one of those days where I knew I wouldn’t be able to get a lot of school work done so I pivoted to something else instead of just procrastinating on my phone instead. Even if I didn’t do much school work today, I did set myself up to get lots done tomorrow now that the house is all clean - if it’s messy around me I get quite anxious and I can’t focus. But now I feel a lot better! Chores go by so much faster with headphones and a podcast 🤍

To end my day, I’m having an arizona hard strawberry half and half and watching some nichijou :3

commission🐻

A fancy cup of coffee ☕

Woke up at a normal time for the first time in 3 weeks & finally caught up on all of my lecture notes (worked through 7 lectures in total today)! Wrote a mail to ask about one of my pedagogy tasks & am currently fighting grammar stuff for ILS. So far 5h in, desperately hoping to catch a break soon – I remembered my grudge against being an education major…

Happy 30th Anniversary to Michael Mann's Heat (USA Release Date : December 15, 1995).

diversifying my knowledge portfolio

Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy

It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle

🌧️ it's been raining a lot this week