Don't put rubber bands or metal paperclips on things you want to save forever. They will get gross and damage your stuff if you leave them on. (Sincerely, an archivist who regularly has to pull rusty paperclips and crusty rubber bands off things like irreplaceable photographs and original records.)

"The Devil offers polished platitudes to the wounded
and easy excuses to the world."

From 'The Vanishing Song'

in the weird post-submission zone of wanting to convalesce somewhere remote and green and warm, but am instead poking my potato brain with a stick to complete all of the admin I (still, somehow, endlessly) need to do

I need a pinned post saying "I'm not a total arse, I'm just generally a bit overwhelmed"

I’ve spent 20 minutes failing to book a £38 hotel through my university travel site because I can’t find the right analysis code. But I have found codes for
- moist food for dogs
- molybdenum ore
- reptile leather
- sanguine
- nuclear tools
- payload delivery systems for spacecraft
- yacht harbour
😂

and it's done