I Used To Take It One Day At A Time Now It Has Turned Into One Hour At A Time. Life Is So Unpredictable

my order from @seminarycoop came in & i am SO excited to dig in!! seminary also sent some cute stickers/goodies with my order, which was a lovely surprise :)

i liked caitlin starling’s debut, The Luminous Dead, and i’m pumped for another sapphic horror story. i’m also having a ton of fun writing about the Locked Tomb books rn, so— review to come for YJ too, hopefully :)

support local/indie bookstores!

went to the used & rare bookstore downtown to buy one book for my friend, and came back with all of these beauties. i cannot be trusted around old books.

copying out some old book notes into my commonplace book with my fountain pen!

[ 11/100 DAYS OF PRODUCTIVITY • 1.10.16 ] wawawee haven’t posted in a while due to exams!!!but here are some geog notes in the process :’) sorry if I haven’t been answering my inbox for a while or posting notes but I promise I’ll get to it after my papers end!! :^) all the best for those who are having/will be having their papers ( • 3 • )」

a quick shot of my study setup one early morning

not me scrambling to finish my essays:"

04.10.21 || moshi moshi ! recently i have watched a ted talk on how to learn any language in six months by Chris Lonsdale. i took some notes from the video and i thought it would be great to share these with all of you. here are 7 actions for rapid language acquisition —

listen a lot! it's called brain soaking. you put yourself in a context where you're hearing tons and tons and tons of a language and it doesn't matter if you don't understand it or not. what matters is you're listening to the rhythms, to patterns that repeat.

focus on the meaning FIRST before the words, focus on the body languages!

start mixing! if you've got 10 verbs, 10 pronouns and 10 adjectives you can say 1000 different things. language is a creative process. it doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work. remember how babies communicate - “me hungry eat’’ learn language like a baby!

focus on the core! any language is high frequency content. in English, 1000 words cover 85% of anything you're ever gonna say in daily conversation.

get yourself a language parent! who's somebody interested in you as a person who will communicate with you essentially as an equal but pay attention to help you understand the message.

copy the face. if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're gonna be able to pick it up.

“direct connect’’ to mental images. when you hear the word fire, you think of smoke you go into that imagery and you become more and more skilled at just connecting the new sounds to those images that you already have into that internal representation. you prolly heard of associating a picture or a drawing when you're learning a new word in your target language. it means the exact same thing.

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11.03.22

the neck is attached !!! violin no. 1 has been… re-capitated? just capitated? started the blocks for no. 2 today while waiting on the glue to dry, and with any luck, i can start picking up the pace from here :))))

🎧 : tell me something i don’t know - alex key

It’s midtermmmmm season. Also known as I’d rather be doing anything else season. Good luck!