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"Loving in men and women not their strength but their softness, not their fullness but their hunger, not their plenitude but their needs." guys imagine if Anaïs Nin were your heart donor i'm thinking about the immensity of that inheritance

aliw... hihiramin ko sana but the guard advised me that library's borrowing system wouldn't be back up until tomorrow kaya they just reserved it for me... i am coming back for you!

i've always wanted to visit Zamboanga so reading this has just been added incitement agh walking home i was thinking about how much i missed the sea also and then it suddenly started raining... it heard me i fear

"Her eyes were blurred by the violence of her feelings." me..... gets

still no faerie researcher vacancies on jobstreet or indeed does this mean we have to get a job related to our degree or

Just Too Much Fun every 5 mins i'm like have i exceeded the legally sanctioned amount of fun a girl like me can have on her Christmas break... desperately need an ARC of the next book to materialize on my desk this is Serious guys

in partnership with Heather Fawcett i am reintroducing my brain to the concept of joy now that finals season is officially over

guys it's crazy to think about how neurochemistry was only formally established as a discipline in the 1950s that is so recent... literally a decade earlier they were still performing electric shock therapy and just hoping for the best like God Bless Na Lang daw fr... they said TRUST hsjsndmsnf

as a n*rd i'm counting down the chapters to where Pollan gets into the neural basis of these substances like king let's talk about her (miss 5-HT2A receptor) (i sound insufferable my stem roots have taken the stage)

i'm at a part where Pollan describes a Harvard experiment where they gave twenty students capsules of white powder during a Good Friday mass (half of them contained psilocybin while the others niacin) during mass is crazy though like I Have So Many Thoughts And Questions. imagine microdosing in the Sistine Chapel or at a Tame Impala concert or with Lorde in the Solar Power MV so many possibilities girl🗣️

the emily dickinson epigraph made me giggle 😭 my curiosity around this subject is still alive after doing research on molly's neural mechanisms (for a science writing class!) a while back 🥸 at the time i even started wondering if Clinical Researcher might be in the cards for me?! bec i wanted to be involved... 😭 i have high hopes for this book!! i missed science writing!!

the emily dickinson epigraph made me giggle 😭 my curiosity around this subject is still alive after doing research on molly's neural mechanisms (for a science writing class!) a while back 🥸 at the time i even started wondering if Clinical Researcher might be in the cards for me?! bec i wanted to be involved... 😭 i have high hopes for this book!! i missed science writing!!

such a sweet gathering to celebrate writers and translators for the labor of their thinking and imagining... i literally can't read this dire-diretso i cry every few pages omg... could do with a few letters a day 😭

"Anyway, how I felt then, knowing that you were close by and feeling completely paralysed by it, this phone call is very similar. If I told you where my car is right now, I don't think I'd be able to leave, I think I would have to stay here just in case you changed your mind about everything. You know, I still have that impulse to be available to you." what if we all just died

"I was sealed up in a certain part of his life that he didn't like to look at or think about when he was with other people." chin up girl... 😭 trust we're never going there again (gaf-less men who have the audacity to wage maang-maangan wars in this VUCA economy)

"I was sealed up in a certain part of his life that he didn't like to look at or think about when he was with other people." chin up girl... 😭 trust we're never going there again (gaf-less men who have the audacity to wage maang-maangan wars in this VUCA economy)

frances i too have stumbled into predicaments that operated on the principle that it would be absolutely disastrous if i got what i wanted... it's so crazy tho cuz when you can finally look back on everything from a (physical and temporal) distance you realize how stupidly vulnerable you were for something that was never going to be what you actually needed (true understanding)

frances i too have stumbled into predicaments that operated on the principle that it would be absolutely disastrous if i got what i wanted... it's so crazy tho cuz when you can finally look back on everything from a (physical and temporal) distance you realize how stupidly vulnerable you were for something that was never going to be what you actually needed (true understanding)

emergency reread... sally rooney i need to feel your sweet understanding before i go headless

my non-stop verbal commentary these past few chapters i know my bedroom walls are sick of me

earlier i fell asleep while reading (my body giving in to exhaustion from coding our gui.. whatever that was...) and the story literally spilled into my dream?? and it was so vivid?? my subconscious really said let me take it from here... nagmamagaling kay Isabel Allende ijbol lang

esteban trueba isang ubo ka na lang like Trust.............

me reading this in the throes of finals week is kind of perfect because i'm incentivized to get work done so quickly two synthesis papers written and turned in today canvas you're BONES

"come to see me in the good light / come trouble me / come let me find you out / come teach me a kinder way to say my own name / come become beside me" that's...... we should all die

Chapter 8 (The Count) was just me whispering IKYFL under my breath every 5 mins!!!!! like please say sike omg!!!! this is weighing on my heart the same way Mustang (2015) did i fear... must rewatch soon but not rn i might die

Chapter 8 (The Count) was just me whispering IKYFL under my breath every 5 mins!!!!! like please say sike omg!!!! this is weighing on my heart the same way Mustang (2015) did i fear... must rewatch soon but not rn i might die

just chaotic asl none of these women have had occasion to smile in ages FREE MY SISTERS.... 😭 also i don't think i'll ever get used to how such MASSIVE packages of information are casually delivered in a single sentence like TELL ME WHY it'll suddenly be like: "and this X set the stage for what would unfold Y years later..." and i'm like HELLO? let me regroup... 😭

need to ascend to a dimension untouched by time so i can stay wrapped in my covers reading but Alas finals are upon us... also i never understood the need for a kindle page turner 'til THIS WEEK i used to think ppl were just lazy asl but i get the vish now... whole time the vish is just never having to move your hand from underneath your blanket again 🤣 BUT #GETS

on a scale of 1 to "Love is a rock in the surf off the Pacific. Life batters it. No matter how small it gets it will always be there—grain of sand chafing the heart." how doomed is she* (* = my heart) (quite doomed)

oh the introduction is taking me out i feel like squidward in that one episode where he was plastered in bandages... Knees WEAK easy lang Dorianne Laux mahina kalaban (me) (cancer moon) (gemini venus) (wala pa nga pahimatay na)

oh the introduction is taking me out i feel like squidward in that one episode where he was plastered in bandages... Knees WEAK easy lang Dorianne Laux mahina kalaban (me) (cancer moon) (gemini venus) (wala pa nga pahimatay na)