I start writing my dissertation officially tomorrow. However, currently I’m spending this evening writing up a dissertation micro-structure (consisting of bullet pointing every single thing I want to say on separate word documents designated to each section). I have also just sent off a couple emails about my abstract and also about having a consultation booked. I’m both excited and nervous. I’m also not sure if I have explicitly advertised my dissertation topic on here yet? Well, here is the text I am writing my dissertation on: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405).
Over 500 years before Virginia Woolf imagined a room of one’s own, Christine de Pizan imagined a whole city.
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28.2.2021 // Here’s my current online classes setup :) i take lecture notes on my ipad, while the lecture’s playing on my laptop - i have to say my neck pain’s improved a lot since i got myself a separate keyboard and moved the screen a bit higher and further away!
♪ affection - between friends
6-year-old Joan Al-Habil is has been repeatedly hospitalized due to severe gastrointestinal problems and overwhelming fatigue. This poor girl has been to multiple facilities and seen multiple doctors, undergone extensive testing (as extensive as is possible in Gaza's collapsed medical system), even having to endure an unsedated endoscopy.
She has now been diagnosed with severe gastritis due to starvation and hazardous living conditions. Remember, she and her family are living on the streets, which are cold and wet due to winter rain. Homelessness, stress, exposure to the elements, her previous injury when the lOF firebombed her tent, and malnutrition all conspire to sap little Joan of her strength.
Her condition is so serious that she even had to undergo surgery. Gastritis very rarely requires surgery to treat, so this is an indication of how dire her condition is. The surgery was successful to a degree, but she is going to need ongoing treatment to manage her symptoms.
The treatments are administered weekly and cost $500 USD (just under €500 EUR). Her family has no income and cannot afford this. If Joan goes more than a few days without treatment, her symptoms worsen rapidly, and she sometimes has to be hospitalized. It is vital that we help her family procure her treatments so that her condition does not worsen!
You can help Joan get her surgery and treatment by
reblogging this post
copy-pasting this link (https:// gofund.me/85a1b400) in your own Tumblr posts and all across your social media accounts to share her family’s story
boosting posts from her parents @mahafamily1 and @ahmed-family-1
donating to her family’s GFM campaign below
Need to raise: about €500 EUR ($500 USD)
this long holiday break got me so productive that i managed to create my own study vlog channel! you can watch my first vlog here.
so far, this week:
started reading a new oscar wilde play
submitted another commissioned article
cleaned my bookshelf and some parts of the house
currently editing my second study vlog
it’s quite different from my dark academic posts because i wanted to show a different kind of aesthetic that i also live by.
26/07/2022
*cleans my cluttered desk to take aesthetic pics of it*
i haven’t been doing anything studyblr-related lately, just reading a lot. it’s hard to combat the feeling of not being productive enough. i’m looking forward to next semester to have a sense of purpose again lol