Avatar

to sleep anon

@sleepanon / sleepanon.tumblr.com

green tea in the morning, bubble tea in the afternoon, and sweet tea all day // both more and less gradblr than i’d like to admit
Posts
Avatar
Pinned Post

100 days of doing the damn thing

Hello folks, I'm starting a new challenge for myself. It's called 100 days of doing the damn thing. The premise is to do my work badly but to do it, dammit!! That means that every day, I am going to show up at a desk/table with no distractions (wifi, phone, music), and I am going to work. Even if it's hard. Even if I get confused or frustrated. I'm going to treat it like a challenge, and I'm also going to treat it Anne Lamott style, aka shitty drafts are the goal. (Lamott's essay "Shitty First Drafts" from her book Bird by Bird is fantastic, and oft cited in writing classes. It's surprisingly difficult to find a copy online of the whole essay and not just the "instructions," but I did, just for you. To me the humor of the entire essay is almost more valuable than the instructions. It is a reminder to not take life, or writing, so seriously.)

Why not do a 100 days of productivity? I simply do not care about productivity.* It's not a motivating factor. It's not a fear-inducing word for me, so there's no urgency to it. And it just doesn't sound fun. Doing the damn thing makes me feel like I'm in a silly cookie-cutter indie movie or a sports flick and I've got ✨passion✨ and ✨drive✨ and a dramatic montage 💃✨

*I am aware that many other people before me have modified 100dop to not sound soul-sucking, both within and without the 100dop tag

----------

Inspiration and reflections below the cut

#100 days of doing the damn thing#sleephd#grad school
Avatar
reblogged
anneofgreengaybles
Avatar
cockmcstuffins

bella was lucky she didn’t have a cell phone of any kind because you know ya boi edward would be blowing up that phone 24-7 going “saw a snail today…. effervescent” or some shit equivalent

Avatar
silly-slacker-person

Posts that changed the timeline

Avatar
reblogged
goldengirlschildhood
Avatar
meirimerens

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

"This photograph was made for my first European solo show in Berlin, in the gallery Anahita Contemporary. It's a self-portrait alongside Anahita Sadighi, Moshtari Hilal and Susu AbdulMajid. We are respectively from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite our different roots I noticed that we all share a similar background, having grown up in Western nations that often vilify the places our families are from. I also noticed the strong profiles of each of our faces. So I decided to create this portrait with the title Axis of Evil – a play on the term so frequently used to describe our home countries when we were growing up. It also embraces the beauty of our distinctive noses, which are often treated as ugly, something to be changed. I wanted to embrace these qualities of ours in this image, creating something powerful, defiant."
#art
Avatar
reblogged
cheshire-castle-library
Avatar
frengerino

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

Avatar
reblogged
blue--period
Avatar
dostoyevsky-official

i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

#student activism#palestine
Avatar
reblogged
fisherkings
Avatar
anneemay
Avatar
reuna

Muhammad Shehada, the communications chief for Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, expressed shock that there was not more media coverage of the Nasser grave.

"I CANNOT find a single headline in any mainstream media about this!" Shehada wrote on social media. "Imagine it was Ukraine? or Israel?"

#media#palestine
You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.