24/11/22
Moved to a new city for my master's degree 📚🍂 being so far from home feels weird
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The batteries in his radio died and came back so often they could have had regular roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Nevada Barr, Winter Study
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Views from the train (2019)
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They lived in a bunkhouse warmed by a woodstove, electrified by an old gasoline-powered generator, water brought up from the lake and an outhouse, and they were on the Internet. As she clicked on Google, it occurred to her that the odd thing was she didn’t find it odd. As a kid, she didn’t have television. It was all done with towers then, and she’d lived in a tiny town in a mountain valley where the reception was lousy. Now she took instant global communication from a remote island for granted.
From Winter Study by Nevada Barr
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early march '24 🐈⬛️ practising my russian, wasting time at cafes, and frequenting places that are way too cool for me — it feels nice to be able to leave the house without risking frostbite and pneumonia
thank you, spring 🌱 ☕️
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4.12.23 🌨️ snow, reading assignments, more snow
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Two fishermen knit their winter woolies in Ramsgate, Kent, England, 1940s - Visual Studies Workshop/Getty Images
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Anna laughed, surprising herself with the noise. Evildoers deciding to do evil in Lake Superior in January were a self-culling gene pool. Based out of a city, Homeland Security personnel might not know that. Provincialism wasn’t just for the provinces anymore.
From Winter Study by Nevada Barr
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