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[thesongmaker]

things I should not be doing when I have a draft due: trying to date a letter based on cursive style

things I am currently doing: you have one guess

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we need to bring back inviting people over for cake and coffee. my grandma used to do that all the time and I think it's a lost art

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Me when the first thing I thought about when I wake up is a dead person from centuries ago

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what did chappell put in this song? good luck, babe! indeed !

[thesongmaker]

She’s a 10 but she lives off of academic validation while simultaneously procrastinating like she’s been promised immortality

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I need to go to sleep but I just found out that my fave historical subject wrote off a little note about her intended conversion to Catholicism and then scrawled across the side “keep my secret”

KEEP MY SECRET

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"We're all here because there's something deeply wrong with us. A PhD is sort of a negative credential. Like, 'keep this person in a library.'" — someone who escaped containment the library

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New plan: find a music grad student to date so I can have access to the grand pianos currently separated from me by locked doors

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Making roasted potatoes (amazing)

Having to wait for the potatoes to roast before I start my protein (tragic, terrible, torturous)

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I do not respect the grind. Go to bed

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If im reading a 800 page book I should be freed of all other responsibilities in my life. Like sorry I can’t do that right now because im reading this long ass book. Yeah you know how it is

[thesongmaker]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

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Grad school quote of the day:

“Lovely man. They shouldn't let him teach.”

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This is the real place I ought to be

"You should be at the club" Direct exposure to the club would kill me instantly

"You should be at bar trivia night" This I cannot deny

[thesongmaker]

grad students look like

Carlton Alfred Smith - Recalling the Past (1888)

[thesongmaker]

True isolation is when everyone else is talking about their vibrant teenage experience and you’re like. I was just trying to survive