Mary 🌻

reader, blogger, writer. history enthusiast, stationary aficionado, lover of the outdoors | @novelneighbor bookstore | she/her/hers

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nothing like a rainstorm to make me want to abandon my work for classes and curl up with a novel

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@sheshitpostsz @TheHuntington hi wow so sorry to see this so late! Very very little of the Octavia E Butler collection has been digitized—and I don’t believe any of her fanfiction has been. you’d have to contact a scholar who has copies (I don’t sadly) best of luck though

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reminding everyone that Octavia E. Butler wrote Star Trek fanfic and you can read it @TheHuntington archives because I did!!!

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at the stage of my dissertation writing where i want to start an updates thread on twitter...so here we are.

715 words left to hit today. aim to hit my rough draft end tomorrow (about 1100 words left)

onward to the rewrites

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my JUNE 24 playlist is so good i'll never have another playlist like it i fear

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fine tuning my final two essays of my masters (excluding my diss) today

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sometimes working in a cafe is great and other times I am bombarded with distractions of both babies and dogs !! how can I possibly get work done with so much cuteness??

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hopefully will help me motivate to finish my paper

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coffee shop vibes are immaculate today

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yes I am 6 books behind on my 2023 reading goal but I just keep starting new books and not finishing anything

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this is something that I would do honestly

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@tamaraniac omg yes!!!

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let no one forget that Taylor Alison Swift was in the movie adaption of The Giver

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nothing like BRAND NEW babies at the coffee shop to make an evening brighter

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alright circling back. my 4000 word essay was submitted last week ✔️

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it's finals grind ~grad school edition~

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4) first round of PhD apps --> 3 apps on my list due DECEMBER 1ST

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let me tell y'all...you think you know what "bibliography" means and then you start learning book history and let me tell you...you DO NOT know what bibliography means

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approx 1300 more words left to complete my rough draft of this paper

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OR at the very least that the algorithms are very invested in keeping me visually engaged...and that the knowledge that they are doing so isn't often enough to get me to move against the grain

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took socials off my phone bc of anxiety and finals and that alert that my screen time is down more than 50% compared to last week...helps remind me that I should keep them off my phone