#phdcountdown

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186 days until submission (perhaps)

Excited that Four Calendar Café got a remaster. but I wish apple music got it thing together 'cuz the new version of the album is split into two

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149 days until submission (perhaps)

I KNOW for a FACT that the MAYOR of DEFAULT CITY **HID** all the WOOD DUCKS that I intended to SNAP. Thankfully, the city's symbol (the MERMAID) interceded and and URGED a notorious mandarin duck mama to appear with her BABIES just when I approached the pond in the ROYAL BATHS

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172 days until submission (perhaps)

whoever needs to go to k*nsington for model shoots? isabella plantation is the best plantation

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194 days until submission (perhaps)

my flour order got messed up, but I don't even have the headspace to complain. more wholemeal spelt loaves it is.

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276 days until submission

Golden rays of sunlight = I get to skip vitamin D supplementation today.

I betrayed my secret to making pizza dough exquisite (mix tipo 00 flour with wholewheat 9:1) which provoked an unexpected reaction ('so that's why your pizza always tastes like B R E A D')

Also, it's NYE today but I feel to old to stay awake 'til midnight.

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278 days until submission

Side quest: find a pencil sharpener.

Main quest: make it to the pub quiz & be remotely helpful

Bonus points: don't make a fool out of yourself when using chopsticks

Detour for which no bonus EXP has been awarded: peruse Beckett's dramas in the morning in lieu of sun salutations

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219 days until submission

the camera eye wanders and intermits

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225 days until submission

went to see "poor things" last night and I swear I will NOT touch another Alasdair Gray book in another 5-10 years

(don't get me wrong, I still admire the guy in many ways, especially for his takes on Glaswegian gloom. But his female characters are onedimensional all across the board)

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231 days until submission

the bureaucratic jargon of academic governance is riddled with terms concocted for the purpose of unsaying things, erasing phenomena, and blanking out experience

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236 days until submission

I feel as if I've spent the entire week reading vogon poetry (and there's more to come).

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242 days until submission

dissembled half of the bike trying to find the root cause of a squeaky noise

it turned out the chain wasn't lubed

ffs.

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292 days until submission

bless us, father, for we have gingerbred @cherrypoison1889 @darknesia

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293 days until submission

workflow (not mine)

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333 days until submission

I swear this is the last time I buy a camera for under £30. This chunky clog arrived today. It's oozing of Victorian dampness. No surprises that the lens that came with it are enriched with yummy fungus. 🍄 So here I am aerating, cleaning and gluing some loose parts of this baby. Always faithful to side projects. (the big project advanced today by a further two subsections, so I can afford to spend some time on silly stuff)

On the bright side:

- the strap!!! I bet it'll be an object of envy of amateur photographers and some nostalgia-stricken grandpas

- I bought it from a charity that rehouses and rescues kittens 🐈

- Olga Tokarczuk would be proud to hear I've adopted a new mycelic colony

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0 days until submission / 351 (more) days in America

It's done. It's over.

And it feels like my brain has become smoother.

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48 days (or so) until submission / 352 (more) days in America

eyes too tired.

Why are there so many typos in this thing???

But hey, if the supervisors didn't catch them, I bet the examiners won't either