i am currently up to my eyeballs in writing policy briefings and next week i will be up to my eyeballs in schedule planning for data collection and one day soon i would very much like to be up to my eyeballs in something nice and cool or, preferable, not up to my eyeballs in anything at all

know that as a working class girl from the midlands, there is nothing more luxurious than spending a sick day on the sofa in a cashmere jumper you bought on a delayed payment plan

i'm going to my very cishet cousin's very cishet wedding in a few weeks and let me tell you, i am dreading it for multiple reasons but a biggie is having to answer the age old extended family question about work/careers with 'i'm a 36 year old first year phd/grad student....yeah, still a student'

today/this month, it's 7 years since my friend died. time is wild. i used to celebrate him by drinking a lil whisky and smoking a cig, but age makes losers of us all, so this year i'm going for a run and listening to nothing but neil young and bright eyes. miss you, mk

i'm also spending the day inside and out of the sun because my scottish/irish blood means i can't cope. i'm listening to gillian welch and rilo kiley and realising i literally know no new music aside from the pop girlies. i'd love recommendations for studying/writing/chill music!

two things! 1) i submitted all my paperwork ahead of my phd candidacy confirmation review and now have a lot of september 'free' (around doing remote work) - what should i do/where should me and zee go! 2) me and my partner wanna move but no idea where. ideas, even unrealistic ones, welcome pls!

me and zee just had a run in with some horrible feral little shit kids on our street because they a) bashed on the window b) swore and yelled at us and c) pulled their pants down and showed us their arses (literally) whilst continuing to do b). like who raised you?!

finally reunited with my number one guy!

nap crisis averted - i've decided i'd much rather watch the weird performative hetero-masculinity going on between the two guys sat opposite me. who has the biggest laptop? who's doing the most important Business? only time will tell!

on the train back to sheffield, exhausted but happy and full of pancakes. do i roll the dice on napping and potentially missing my stop?

🎬 And it's a wrap! Over three days of masterclasses, creative workshops, reading groups and film screenings, we've explored how queer theory and praxis can shape health research at our Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities #PhDSchool.

in "the queer world is small, water is wet' news, I'm at the excellent @durhamimh.bsky.social Queer Methodologies PhD School and one of my fellow researchers here is someone I used to live near in Peckham. we used to catch up at the local dog park whilst our equally avoidant pets became friends!

just like when a bird shits on you and its supposed to be good luck, what fate am i looking at if my jack russell has been sick on my sofa and down the shoulder of my sweatshirt?

as my wonderful friend @drews.bsky.social said:

"Denial of treatment purely for being trans...is not an “inconvenience”
And we will not politely tolerate this segregation"

allies, we need to be present. contact your MP, link in with your communities, organise. we all keep each other safe.

shoehorning multiple david lynch references/quotes/p.o.v's into the methodology section of my confirmation review draft? couldn't be me! (spoiler: it's me)

fyi fellow sheffield uni's friends, etc: a week today there will be a vigil at the concourse outside of sheffield's SU for Palestinian students and academics who have been killed in the ongoing genocide

hi it's us!