Hi all, do you have any Friday plans? I will work tomorrow so I didn't plan much. Very likely I will go to the gym with my friend after work. I also want to send out some job applications, and then I want to make progress with The Edge of Everything which is one of my current reads.

Traduttore, traditore. An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Currently sitting in a coffee shop reading this book, I’m about 139 pages in and I’m completely hooked. It’s so fascinating to unpack what it means to learn a language separate from your own native language, the way we pick languages that impact our surroundings and the way languages themselves function. As someone who’s studied languages from English, Spanish, Latin and French, it’s fascination to realize that despite speaking English primarily now it wasn’t my first language. My first language was Vietnamese and how I lost it over time but have started regaining it and what that means to me. ☕️📝📚

ℑ 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔶 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢… ☕️

had a(nother) nightmare

The magic of studying on a bar's table.

throwback to summer when i wasn’t sitting in my lectures with wet socks and a crippling Vitamin D deficiency

cozy late autumn café vibes🍂☕

Unexpectedly, I’m back and doing more reading and coffee drinking than ever! It’s been a while since I posted on here, the final couple terms of my undergraduate moved away from the traditional studying format. But I have somehow found myself starting a Masters, so the cafe and study session energy has returned in full force.

spring!! chocolate eclairs, rereading “their eyes were watching god” and the farmers market!!

I'm waiting for it to get warm enough that I can sit outside and read. I hope that in three weeks or so it will get warmer than it is now.

Have you read The Queen of the Tearling? I read it a long time ago but for some reason I never continued the series.

Needing inspo 💜

coffee break part 2

part 1

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café [ID in ALT]