It's Ok To Not Finish Books.

23.04.2024 // some affect theory and writing on a fairly warm day. i'm taking it slow this week, mostly because i feel lazy and kind of...blah.

affect always escapes any attempt to explain or understand it because it lies outside of language or cognition. perhaps that explains why affect seems so vague and abstract. im trying to figure out if affect theory will be useful for my research but I won't pursue it if it continues to be beyond my grasp.

Kind of not doing notes, I'm working on some crochet, but I've finally learned how to take chemistry notes,so I'm quite happy!!

Literal

listen. i don't mind studying in fact i like learning new stuff every day (yeah i might be a constantly distracted mf but that's a different talk) BUT I SWEAR TO GOD my college will make me have a stroke!!!!

is the most disorganized institution in the world. nobody knows shit in that fucking building but everything is a "no, we don't know, don't even think about it, not in a million years, fuck u!" answer every time you have the slightest inconvenience.

bureaucracy made me hate my degree choice.

4/30 days of productivity

Sometimes productivity is drinking tea while in your work break while being with one of your coworkers and drawing them because they are in the perfect relaxed position. What I'm trying to say is that productivity is not just doing one hundred assignments but also doing one.

one thing that so many students forget is that, a win is a win. if you planned on doing english homework but instead you finished your history essay, celebrate that, don’t be upset taht you didn’t sick to your plan, at least you got SOMETHING DONE. a win is a fucking win and don’t let anyone tell you different.

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (English, 1802–1873), "Miss Ellen Power" (c. 1840 - 1841)

The best thing about coming soon to class (i live quite far away and prefer to come 30 minutos earlier than later) is that I get to crochet and eat before the class starts.

The University of Barcelona's Medicine Faculty has temporarily installed a giant heart made by the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, with the building's columns acting as the ribcage.

The objective of this work of art is to raise awareness about cardiovascular illnesses, which are the leading cause of death worldwide.

The work is titled El cor secret (The Secret Heart). The heart measures 13 metres tall and 10 metres wide, and weighs 150 kg. It's made of synthetic materials and painted by hand. It had previously been shown in Germany in 2014 and was supposed to arrive to Plensa's home city sooner, but it was delayed because of covid. Instead, in 2020, Plensa donated one of his famous head sculptures to this same building, to thank medicine professionals and students for their work during the pandemic.

Amethyst scarab, Egypt, 12th Dynasty, 1963-1786 BC

from The Louvre

It has apparently been ten years since the time one of my professors pulled me aside to tell me I had to clean up after making out before going to class because my lipstick was everywhere and I realized "actually my tapdancing group decided we all had to dress like the Joker for our performance" was an infinitely worse explanation so I just said I was sorry