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umlewis · 3 months

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lewis hamilton during the press conference on day three of pre-season testing, bahrain - february 23, 2024 (transcript under the cut)

Journalist: "What changed between the summer and the decision to make the call for Ferrari?" Lewis: "Obviously in summer we signed and obviously I, at that time, saw my future with Mercedes, but an opportunity came up in the new year and I decided to take it. It was obviously the hardest decision I think I've ever had to make. Obviously I've been with Mercedes for… I think it's, like, 26 years they've supported me, and we've had an absolutely incredible journey together. We've created history within the sport, and it's something I take a lot of pride in. I'm very proud of what we've achieved. But I think ultimately I'm writing my story, and I felt like it was time to start a new chapter." [time jump] Lewis: "For every driver, I think, growing up, watching the history, watching Michael Schumacher in his prime, I think probably all of us sit in our garage and see the screen pop up and you see the driver in the red cockpit and you wonder what it'd be like to be surrounded by the red. You go to the Italian Grand Prix and you see the sea of red, of Ferrari fans, and you can only stand in awe of that, and it's a team that's not had huge success, really, since… Mostly, obviously, from Michael's days, but since 2007, and I saw it as a huge challenge, and without a doubt… Even as a kid, I used to play on GP2 as Michael in that car, so it definitely is a dream and I'm really, really excited about it." Interviewer: "Lewis, have you ever been to Maranello? Lewis: "I have not. I bought my first Ferrari in 2010, I think. That was my first present to myself. I don't have it anymore, but I didn't get to go during that time. Being with Mercedes, I didn't think it was a good look to go, at the time." Journalist: "Are you on Duolingo already? Are you planning to have lessons? What's the game plan with that? Thank you." Lewis: "In all these years, I've not managed to learn any other languages, so… But of course I will definitely try. I do remember when I was karting in Italy and I was able to pick up a few lines, and so hopefully that will come back to me pretty quickly. But just to go back to, just about the new chapter… This chapter's still not finished. I'm still 100% focused on delivering for this team this year and trying to finish on a high. That's a big, big goal for me and the team, and I have absolute faith in everyone in the team and, what we've done so far, I think it's great, so I really hope that we are somehow able to close the gap to the Red Bulls, somehow." Journalist: "Can you tell us a little bit about your relationship with Fred? How important was he in your decision? Was he the only guy that could have convinced you to go there?" Lewis: "I've got a great relationship with Fred. Obviously I raced with him in Formula 3, and we had amazing success in Formula 3 and also in GP2, and that's really where the foundation of our relationship started, and we just always remained in touch. And I thought that he was gonna be an amazing team manager at some stage and progress to Formula 1, but at the time he wasn't interested in that, and it was really cool to see him step into the Alfa team, and then when he got the job at Ferrari I was just so happy for him. And I think just the stars aligned. It really wouldn't have happened without him, so I'm really grateful and really excited about the work that he's doing there and… Yeah."

#lewis hamilton #f1 #formula 1 #fic ref #fic ref 2024 #not a race #2024 not a race #pre-season #pre-season 2024 #testing #testing 2024 #bahrain #lando norris #valtteri bottas #lance stroll #esteban ocon #logan sargeant

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study-with-aura · 17 days

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Not like me at all to finish up my studying while eating lunch and in the car to and from ballet, right? Ha. That sounds exactly like me as of late. No wonder I've felt tired. I am not giving myself much of a break. But I tell myself that I only have a week left and Julien is going to be home soon, and it will be better to study extra now so I can spend more time with my brother when he gets back for the summer. It's only a few more days, and I'll get to see him again. I know I saw him over the winter holidays, but it was not long enough! Yet, I'm going to be gone for a lot of the summer too. It will be okay.

Mom is coming with us on one summer trip as a chaperone, partially because they needed more volunteers and we can afford to pay for a second trip (the cost for one person is pretty high). She wasn't going to at first, but I said it was okay and that it would give Dad and Julien time to be together and us time to be together, as long as she didn't umbrella (hover over) me during the trip, which she promised she wouldn't.

Tomorrow is my harmony exam! I can't believe it is here already! I've been studying during my piano practice times, but this exam is so difficult! Then again I didn't think I would score a distinction in my Advanced Foundation exam so maybe I'll get a higher mark on this than I'm expecting. Then again, I am more serious about ballet than I am piano, though I am still fairly serious about piano too. As long as I pass, that is all that matters. All I need is a 60, and I am good. Albeit, that is only a pass with no honors, but I am praying for a 60 minimum. Although, if I don't overthink like I sometimes do, I could manage at least a 70 I think.

All that being said, I may not get the chance to post tomorrow since my exam is at 9:30 and will take about 3 hours. I will be doing all of my school work of the afternoon before ballet and anything I don't finish on Saturday morning after breakfast if I need to.

I can do this! I am an amazing and awesome human being! I will not doubt myself. I will trust in my abilities because I have worked hard this entire year and I am as ready as I can be. I've got this!

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - 3rd and 4th quarter quarter review

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Units 10-11 vocabulary + read the news + worked on non-fiction writing assignment (due next Thursday) + CLEP Test practice question + copied/reviewed final study sheet 2

Spanish 2 - Reviewed Los Deportes y El Cuerpo vocabularios + reviewed hacer + que

Bible I - Read Matthew 22

World History - Read about Al-Qaeda + read about ISIS + read about HAMAS + watched a 20-minute video on the origins of HAMAS and its connection to Hitler + watched video on why Al-Qaeda and ISIS hate each other + answered questions on terrorism

Biology with Lab - Learned about worms + filled in graphic organizer chart (next three sections) + continued germination lab

Foundations - Read the definition of wisdom + read another article displaying media bias + read about bias in elections with changing legislation + started writing my argumentative speech

Piano - Practiced for two hours in one hour split sessions

Khan Academy - Completed High School Geometry daily mastery challenge + completed High School biology daily mastery challenge + completed World History Unit 2 test (71% - apparently I need to study this area bit more :|)

CLEP - Completed Sample CLEP Test Questions 76-90

Streaming - Watched The Cuba Libre Story Episode 9

Duolingo - Studied for approximately 30 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 1-31 of The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

Chores - Put away the dishes + took the trash out

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (Ecclesiastes 7)

Ballet

Pointe

Journal/Mindfulness

#study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #studyblr #studyblr community #study community #study-with-aura

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whydousernamesevenexist · 6 months

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5 days of productivity (3/5) (my own challenge)

27. 11. 2023, Monday

4:10 - woke up 🥲

4:40 - Spotify podcast (25 min)

5:20 - Duolingo (10 min)

5:45 - got up

5:55 - breakfast

6:10 - brushed my teeth

6:32 - Duolingo (10 min)

7:10 - went to school

7:30 - eyeliner in the school bathroom

8:00-13:50 - school (they cancelled our last two lessons!) (Occasionally crocheting at breaks)

13:55-14:30 - hangout w/ my best friend

15:37 - crochet (30 min)

16:30-17:10 - went to buy yarn and a few more things for Christmas (read: I am using Christmas as an excuse to spend wayyy too much), also I count this as a short walk

17:14 - played the recorder (10 min)

17:37 - Czech (history of literature) (oral exam on Wednesday) (25 min)

18:36 - crochet (20 min)

19:05 - dinner

19:15 - quick shower

19:44 - crochet (10 min)

20:21 - crochet (10 min) I finally finished the makeup bag I was making, letsgooo

20:35 - brush teeth, remove makeup

20:50 - prepare my schoolbag

21:17 - Duolingo (cca 15 min)

21:41 - writing this

8072 steps

Good night!

#studyblr #study #study aesthetic #study motivation #studyspo #studyinspo #romanticise studying #student #study tips #studyspiration #5 days of productivity #productivity aesthetic #productivity challenge

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the---hermit · 2 years

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Today was totally unplanned. I originally thought I'd go to have a walk in the mountains with my family, but since last night a huge storm hit and flooded our basement we ended up going to bed very late and being super tired in the morning. Thankfully last night we managed to get all the water out, but I am still exhausted now. This morning I went with my mom to run some errands, and then I studied in the afternoon, working on my archival sources. I have also practiced Irish on duolingo, and did a bit of reading. As for the reading aspect I decided to dnf Ring Shout for now. I think I'll try to pick it up in the future when I'll be able to enjoy it more, cause as I said in other posts I am risking a reading slump.

I have been thinking about doing a new 100 days of productivity challenge, as it's been quite a long time since I did one of those. I decided to wait until September, when I'll start with the first classes of my masters degree. There's probably going to be quite a few changes for me when I'll start, as I haven't physically been to uni for classes in two years at least. My routine will chance, there'll be a lot to do between classes and finishing working on my thesis (I'll graduate in November, but I'll be able to start with classes sooner than that). I was also considering (again) to create a studygram/bookstagram accout maybe for the 2nd birthday of this sideblog. I have had this idea for over a year now, but never did it, because I've never used that app, and I am not really a big socials person. But I feel like it could be cool to have content like this blog here. I am still not fully convinced, so we'll see, but I thought I'd put the idea out there to see what people think.

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legallysoup · 8 months

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12.10.23 - thursday, jeudi, torsdag

first actual studyblr post! decided to start off easy and instead of launching myself straight into 100 days, i decided to do the studyblr community challenge instead.

there was a gas leak in our english class today, but i dont know if it was for muck up day or not. i guess we'll never know.

things i did:

all of my french education perfect about foods my maths assignment on frequency tables the geology science investigation based on a prac today in class nearly all my consolidation on the rock cycle the friend quest on duolingo i got that we had three days to do but did it in roughly five hours. teamwork!

things i will try to do tomorrow:

edit my coding assignment and commits finish my rock cycle consolidation do two more norwegian units in duolingo transcribe a chinese poem for homework

(this sounds really sad but i am proud good job me)

day one: introduce yourself and tell us what you study! hi, my name is tay or soulless :> i learn french and norwegian and play video games (badly) in my free time. im still in high school so... literally everything but im most interested in languages, english and science at the moment! (not physics though :sob:)

this is a bit rushed, hopefully tomorrow i can format my posts better

#studyblr #studyblr challenge #langblr #studyblr community challenge #good soup #french #norwegian #my hass teacher called me the supreme yay #also the people are so nice here wtf

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private-bryan · 6 months

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20 questions game for fic writers

Thanks for the tag @areseebee!

How many works do you have on ao3? 8

What’s your total ao3 word count? 63,699

What fandoms do you write for? Derry Girls. I once had a Zootopia fic on AO3 from a few years ago, but that was expunged with predjudice when I blew the dust off my account for my Derry Girls fics!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Charming, To Travel, A Confederacy of Fathers, Ruminations for a Sleepless Night, Coming of Age

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I didn't use to, primarily because I'm quite a shy person, but I try to do it now (at least for the early part of a fic's lifespan if I'm otherwise busy in real life). I need to get better at responding to new ones left on older fics though

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? "Tell me I was wrong"

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? "She" was literally written to have a happy ending, but I would personally say "A Confederacy of Fathers"

Do you get hate on fics? Not so far, and hopefully that continues

Do you write smut? If so what kind? No. The smuttiest thing I wrote was in the epilogue to "She", and that was just one or two paragraphs with several euphemisms.

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve ever written? Niet! Not unless you count butchering Irish mythology

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not as far as I know

Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope

Have you ever co-written a fic before? I have a hard enough time writing by myself. I'll spitball and theorise with people about the plot, but the actual writing is all my own

What’s your all-time favorite ship? Jerin is my favourite, and I ship them hard and love to write them. I think my oldest one I can remember (and one I'm still slightly bitter that it never really left dock) was Ash and Misty from Pokemon. Honourable mentions to Lizzie x Gordo and T.J. x Spinelli too

What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? This depends on whether I can keep the writing impetus going or not, but "Mary Quinn's Cookery Book" has kind of reached a roadblock creatively. Hopefully I can get back to it once the current WIP is done, but we'll see.

What are your writing strengths? This question is highly anti-English, as we don't like to extoll our strengths! I like to think there's a flow to the stories I write, and that if there's little plot there's at least a good understanding of character. And I can weave in canon reasonably well

What are your writing weaknesses? I think know I can be florid - mainly in an effort not to continually repeat the same word, but it doesn't always feel natural. Also I can't plot for toffee; "She" notwithstanding, pretty much all of my fics are essentially single scenes, are un/strenuously connected scenes, or take place over a really short time period. Oh, and I seem to be having a love affair with the semicolon...

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I'm a monolinguist, unfortunately. One day I'd like to write in Irish (if Duolingo doesn't let me down), but for now it's good ol' Google Translate if I need another language.

First fandom you ever wrote for? Published? Lizzie Maguire, on fanfiction.net. Unpublished? Pokemon.

Favorite fic you’ve ever written? Probably "To Travel" - it's topical, exploring 2010s Northern Irish abortion rights in the wake of the 2022 Roe vs. Wade ruling, it was a challenge to write as person who the subject matter doesn't directly relate to, and it was fun to explore James and Erin on the cusp of getting together through the eyes of Anna.

#tag game

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ronastudies · 4 months

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january 6-7, 2024 // omnia vincit aequatio challenge day 3 & 4

day 3

Saturday involuntarily turned into the one day off I wanted to take per week. Got up early, ended up spending the whole morning finishing a present for a very dear person instead of doing some academic reading. The corresponding birthday party (for which I had to leave incredibly early due to public transport, which at least allowed me to do some personal reading on the train) ended up being infinitely more valuable from a personal perspective than the traditional having-a-coffee-get-together I expected. All in all still a very worthwhile day.

day 4

Intended to go to yoga but the class was overbooked already (damn you, new-year's-resolutioners!); went for a short walk later in the day

Had a lovely breakfast

Did all the cleaning and tidying up I was responsible for in our shared house

Procrastinated actual work on my current seminar paper by starting to study Irish (which I had wanted to do for over six years), beginning with Duolingo (oh how I loathe this app) and the usual 625 words thing (very kindly collected by @gaeilge101 here)

Continued reading the current book, a collection of essays about women writers and their work

Suffered a horrible mood during most of the day and nothing helped, finally accepted the fact sometime in the afternoon and just went with it, this too shall pass

Ended the night with a lovely concert, the Prague state theater's symphony orchestra and an Italian pianist duo was visiting Tübingen (played Dvořák, Rossini, Mozart, Koželuh)

#mine #personal #ronastudies #irish #reading #book #studying #vocabulary #learning irish #gaelic #dvorak #kozeluh #rossini #classical music #chaotic academia #dark academia #academia aesthetic #classic academia

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xocontinentaldrift · 1 year

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monthly report: january 2023

Wowza, I can't believe a month has already flown by. After a rough start of my kiddo getting stomach fly on New Year's Day, I spent most of the month just catching my breath and easing into the new year. It was a good call not to put too much pressure on myself.

Ironically, it was a productive month anyway, with lots of happy-making moments and accomplishments:

Revised about 1/3 of my novel

Took a lot of outdoor open air walks despite the snow and cold

Started to go out for dinner every Friday night with the family

Decluttered a lot of papers and some books

Mastered making falafel in our Instant Pot air fryer

Talked with my best friend on the phone a few times

Spent more time with my parents with my kiddo

Did a little more strength training in the mornings, experimenting with doing pushups everyday (because a few times a week makes it hard to track, it's easier for me just to do them everyday)

Bonded with our new kitty and she seems happy and well-adjusted in our home, and she is so snuggly!

Began getting to bed at a reasonable hour (before midnight is a huge accomplishment for me.)

Participated in some fashion challenges via my favorite fashion forum on Reddit

Read a lot of books

Began planning the little guy's birthday party next week, which is NOT a fun task for me, but I booked the location, put down a deposit, sent out invites, managed the RSVPs. Next up: figuring out food, transport/pickup logistics, ordering the cake, sending out reminders

Bought a nice lounge bed roll from Natural Life that makes my home so much more cheerful, funky and comfy

Paid all my bills!

Trucking along in my Duolingo French course -- I'm determined to finish the Intermediate 1 course by mid-year

However, the month had its difficulties and sticking points:

Some instances of mindless spending

Yelling a few times at my kiddo, especially when I was burned out at the beginning of the month coming off the busy holiday season

Conflict with partner over who does what in terms of house/life shit. The problem is that I feel all the work I do is never seen as the work that it is, it's just written off as "easy" and inconsequential.

Thought it got better at the end, my sleeping patterns were off, and I've begun waking up in the middle of the night. (Thanks, perimenopause!) Gotta figure something out because it really does bite into quality of life.

BORED AT WORK. Can't figure out if the responsibilities, the need for a new direction, or just the drab isolation of working from home in the middle of winter.

Inconsistent exercise when it's sub-zero temps. I mean, part of me thinks I can give myself some slack on this, but it does affect my overall sense of well-being

Having moments of feeling super, super depressed right before my period. It's not even just sad -- it's like my brain just can't feel good in any way, and I feel really despondent and hopeless in a way that doesn't feel right. Sometimes I wonder if I have PMDD. Something to think upon, I guess.

Just that general feeling of being in a hamster wheel, running furiously but with no real movement forward. Spinning my wheels. File it under "existential mid-life malaise."

So that's my roundup of January 2023. Not a bad month, I must say. I'm really looking forward to February 2023's goals and resolutions:

Keep revising my novel! I'm really making a lot of headway at the moment, maybe because I've hit a decent patch of storytelling

Getting ready for my writers group to start up again

Planning my kiddo's birthday party, it's gonna be a banger, lol

An old friend will be in town from London, so I'm looking forward to seeing her

Talking regularly on the phone with my best friend from college

More Friday night dinners as a family

Making myself get dressed in real clothes instead of being in sweats all day -- too easy to do in the winter, for sure!

Focusing my reading on books on relationships, parenting, love and marriage, and also incorporating more fiction

Cleaning out my closet once again and sending a box of clothes to ThredUp

Getting a shoe storage cabinet for my dining room

Getting to bed before midnight most nights -- ideally asleep by 11:30pm, but let's be realistic that this might not always happen

Cleaning out toiletries and makeup bag

Wearing perfume everyday -- I have a lot of scents that I need to use and use up and use out

Making an appointment to meet with a new OB-Gyn -- might delay this till March

Taking walks outside as much as I can

Going out to work at a cafe or some place like that at least once a week

Trying out 2-3 new recipes this month as a challenge. I don't care too much about being the ideal housewife, but for my own sake, I need to try some new recipes

Start re-creating an official website/social media professional presence again...which means paying off Dreamhost, ugh.

Maybe look into estimates for redoing kitchen floor

Start planning outdoor landscaping miniprojects, like planting new boxwoods on my side garden beds

Ok, that's getting a little too ambitious; I'll revise this as needed. Here's to a lovely February full of peace, inspiration, liberation and the divine feminine!

#dailylife #inner life

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languagedaemon · 2 months

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The Two Key Exercises for Learning a Language

I’ve heard several times that the only exercises we need to be fit are three: the squat, the pull-up and the push-up. Sure, many other types of exercise are also useful, healthy, and perhaps more fun and challenging, and it’s fine to have a varied routine or full of the activities you enjoy most, but the fact is that those three exercises already work the muscles we need to have a strong body, and that a person who only does those three can feel confident that he or she will make progress.

I think something similar happens in language learning. There can be a lot of choices in terms of methods, materials, techniques, etc., but at the end of the day it’s two activities that are going to bring the most progress: reading and listening. If we are doing those two things, our squat/push-up/pull-up, we can rest assured that over time we will get better. There are options that seem more appealing, or more modern, or more complex, but reading and listening should be the foundation of a learning program.

This is not to say that other methods such as flashcards, vocabulary lists, working on our own production (writing, or recording ourselves speaking), studying grammar, using apps, etc., is not to say that all of these things are useless or counterproductive (although Stephen Krashen seems to say so at times), but it raises the question of whether we might be basing our learning only on these activities that have an ancillary nature (something like just training cardio or just doing bicep curls) and whether we might not also need to work on those basic, encompassing movements, interacting with real blocks of language.

Additionally, many of the different methods or techniques for studying a language can be thought of as just variations, in many cases, of those two basic movements of reading and listening (just as many exercises are variations of push-up/squat/pull-up). For example, progress can come from an app like Duolingo because ultimately we are doing just that, reading and listening, but maybe in a very unnatural and unintensive version (think of those exercise machines that try to be innovative and end up being a trinket). Sometimes these methods focus on working a certain specific part instead of working in a more holistic way, but just as using only focused exercises can give us an unharmonious body, concentrating on studying certain specific things can give us a misaligned and out of proportion level, with gaps, the most typical case being students who understand the grammar of the target language almost completely, but cannot produce sentences naturally. Reading and listening ensure balanced and comprehensive progress.

Enjoyment should be a compass in any learning process, so if you like other kinds of activities there is no problem in continuing to practice with them, but it is always worth getting down on the floor and doing push-ups, that is, reading a novel. It seems more basic, more simplistic, but just as doing ten pull-ups is no joke, finishing a five hundred page novel is not either, and in both cases the progress will be easy to notice and feel.

#language learning #langblr

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skyonfilm · 2 years

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🌸 28 MAR 22 🌸

100 days of productivity challenge || 32-34/100 || 月曜日

i suck at updating on weekends...

what i did today in the last 2 3 days:

completed questionnaire (link)

watched first case study film

wrote checklist of work to do

caught up on television shows

watched second case study film

attended meeting

lecture

began report

attended another meeting

emails

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🌸 MARCH productivity challenge || 26-28/31 || 三月 🌸

Are there any wild stories passed around among your friends or family?

no unfortunately

Do you have a pet? What's their name? How long have you had them? Is it your first pet or have you had one before?

my family has a few but one of our dogs is called benji and he is such a sweet dog (a bit spoilt as well). he's a kokoni which i believe is a greek breed. he isn't the first dog we've had.

What's the movie you last watched? Is there a movie or show you highly dislike for a very specific reason?

the first one is snow white and i watched it as it's for one of my case studies. snow white was never one of my favourite disney films growing up and i don't remember when i last watched it. i really enjoyed watching it from start to finish.

the second film was the live action on alice in wonderland - where i watched it for the same reason as snow white. alice in wonderland is one of my more favorable live action remakes that are out there. even though the plot is quite different from the original story, i've always found it engaging and i loved the characters.

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🎧 song recommendation: deja vu - avril lavigne

⛅ weather: sun

🗾 duolingo: 45xp

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selkiestudies · 2 years

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15 Feb 2022 | February Productivity Challenge

My physics prof moved our test to Thursday at like 5 am this morning which was fun. Now I can finish my reading notes for phycology! Already did my duolingo for today and about to get ready for the day. Feeling confident today!

Day 15: When you hang out with friends, what do you usually prefer to do?

We usually cook and play games or watch movies/tv.

Currently listening to: I Can Do Better Than That from The Last Five Years

#studyblr #mine #h talks #studyvan #bulletnotestudies #medustudies #myhoneststudyblr #bookblr #books #february productivity challenge

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caramelcuppaccino · 3 years

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🌨️ winter studying challenge 🌨️

10th December:

hello beautiful people! i hope you are safe, healthy and happy. ⛄

today i've:

•attented to my online approaches in english learning and teaching class.

•studied dutch on duolingo.

•finished my reading homework for british literature class. (27 pages)

•reviwed my turkish sonics lecture.

tonight i'll be:

•studying the german lessons i didn't attend.

•reading book.

what is a cherished family tradition from your childhood?

🔹well, we always take pictures/selfies whenever it is someone's birthday. everyone we know and love come together and we take a big fam picture. i don't know if you can call it tradition but we always do that. also we always bake our own birthday cakes. and we love to watch animations/cartoons. mom, grandmom and me sit together and watch them.

wish me luck! good luck and may it be easy to everyone who is reading this post. ☃️

#winter studying challenge #studying #studyblr #studyspo #studystudystudy #study blog #student #study motivation #studygram #studyinspo #study aesthetic #study space #studying aesthetic #university student #university studyspo #lunlunstudies

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study-with-aura · 12 days

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Three more days, three more days! I have no idea what I am going to do with myself during my usual study hours next week. It isn't officially summer break until after that because I will still have ballet and piano (practical on May 28). I suppose I will start working on my music history studies. It's a self-paced course that I am taking for it, but I want to be prepared to take the exam in December. I could take it in August, but I am taking Music Appreciation next year for academics, so it makes sense to add that to my independent study before the exam. I simply have to take it before I sign up for any level 10 exams (if I pass my level 9 exams! I will pass them!).

My brother is coming home soon! My brother is coming home soon! Yes, that was meant to be repeated! I can't wait!

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Finals review (focused on similarity and proofs today)

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Units 18-20 vocabulary + read the news + completed first draft of non-fiction writing assignment and editing (due Thursday) + CLEP Test practice question + reviewed study guides

Spanish 2 - Reviewed Los Adverbios y Los Muebles vocabularios + reviewed present perfect + reviewed informal commands

Bible I - Read Matthew 25

World History - Took a quiz + answered question about conflict/wars between nations and peoples

Biology with Lab - Completed Invertebrate Survey Lab + continued germination lab

Foundations - Read more on wisdom + finished first draft of argumentative speech and editing

Piano - 60-minute piano lesson + practiced for one hour

Khan Academy - Completed High School Geometry Unit 4: Quiz 3 and Unit 4: Lesson 6 practice set "Prove theorems using similarity" + completed High School biology daily mastery challenge + completed World History Unit 6 test (80%, there were no Unit 4 or 5 tests)

CLEP - None today

Streaming - Watched Empire Games Episode 4

Duolingo - Studied for approximately 30 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 184-206 of The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

Chores - Laundry

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (1 Corinthians 4)

Ballet

Pointe

Journal/Mindfulness

#study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #studyblr #studyblr community #study community #study-with-aura

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the---hermit · 2 years

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25|02|2022

I did it! I finally finished reading 1984, it feels like ages since I started it. It wasn't that long ago, but it felt infinite. I have written a review that I will be posting tomorrow (I think), and a couple of other related posts. Other than this I have continued reading and annotating Kuhn's Structure Of Scientific Revolutions, and I practiced Irish on duolingo.

february productivity challenge // Day 25: What does your ideal breakfast look like?

Since I am basically an Hobbit I tend to have two breakfasts. The general thing about me is that I eat very little but very often, no idea why I have alway been like this since I was a child. Anyway in my first breakfast, after I wake up around 6.30 I first thing drink a green tea mixed with mint. After that I eat a small something like either a yoghurt or some nuts, but nothing more cause I can't really eat much after I woke up. Then I have my second breakfast around 9.30, but then it all depends on the day. I usually have another tea, but I vary the type on my mood, and I eat something a bit more filling. So if I have home made goods like muffins, or seed crakers I eat those. If not I usually go for bread with the jam my aunt makes, which is incredible.

tranquil's study challenge 2022 // Day Ten: What do you love most about your field of study? What are some aspects of it that remind you of why you are studying it or are involved in this field?

Studying history makes me so excited about everything all of the time. I like the little random facts, and finding out what people did in the past, how long humans have done the same things over and over again. I love to get my mind blown by history, that's it. On the other hand the more serious reason I care about history is that it makes you very aware of your own present. Knowing the past is a way to better understan what is happening now, and what will probably happen next. The sum of all of this is that history is terribly exciting and terrifying at the same time, you are constantly reminded of all the good things that make humans humans, but all the bad things aswell. Let's say that it's a great reminder of how complicated our species is, which is something I feelclike we tend to forget.

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Beautiful Thing (Ethan x F!MC)

Pairing: Dr. Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr. Lilac Allende) Word count: 1,300 Warning: Like one curse word? Premise: They workout together. They kiss. Author’s Note: Sorry, I couldn’t think of a summary

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“Light on your feet, Allende,” he commands, not even straining against the force of her punch. That would've been disappointing any other day since Lilac is using all the force she can muster, but she is too busy looking for a gap in his defenses.

“Quit going easy on me,” she pants, still managing an edge of sarcasm in her futile endeavor.

Ethan gives no response, holding the punching mitt steadily in front of her. Shirtless, muscles straining with each movement, and handsome face set in concentration, he is infuriatingly distracting.

Blinking rapidly to refocus her scattered thoughts, she throws another jab, the smack of glove against mitt thundering across the deserted hospital gym.

He easily blocks another of her hits, expression completely serious. Aside from the slight pink hue on his face and neck, there is no indication Lilac is a worthy opponent, certainly not one to make him break a sweat. This brings about a slight flare of frustration, followed by determination.

“Lean your body weight forward every time you punch,” he instructs, easily catching another blow with the mitt. “You never want to lean back or your opponent will get you.”

“Let them get me,” she breathes, exhausted and swaying on her feet.

“Keep going.”

“It's no use,” she protests, every word sounding more embarrassingly labored than the last. “You know I'd probably talk my way out of a real fight.”

“It'd probably be your talking that lands you in a fight in the first place,” he returns at once, speech even and controlled. How was he not completely out of breath?

“I'd still be so charming and irresistible, they'd let me go,” Lilac replies weakly.

“Doubtful,” Ethan replies without breaking his focus.

She feigns a shocked, indignant face. “You don’t think I’m charming enough?” To prove her point, Lilac bites her lower lip briefly, pairing the gesture with a wink, a joke aimed at earning her a trademark ghost of a smile from him.

The effect is quite the opposite.

There is a brief almost imperceptible pause in Ethan's movements and she can swear his piercing eyes fall to her mouth. Ignoring how her body feels suddenly scalding hot, she aims a well-placed upper cut that Ethan is unsuccessful at blocking. It smacks against his shoulder.

The hit is rather unspectacular, but validating nonetheless.

“Ha!” she exclaims triumphantly.

Unimpressed, Ethan examines the spot she hit on his shoulder. “You need to do better than that if you want to reach your goal.”

Lilac doesn't know what makes her say it, but the words are out of her mouth before she can stop them. “My goal of looking good naked?”

Ethan falters again, just like the first time she had said the words.

This time, she lands a decent hit on his solid stomach. He barely flinches at the impact, however, staring at Lilac with surprise instead. When he recovers, his face is pinker than ever before and he splutters an unintelligible response.

Unable to help it, she laughs, the sound echoing throughout the vast room.

“Focus,” is all he says in a gruff, low voice.

“You're getting slow, anciano,” Lilac teases, letting her tongue roll out the last word with all the cadence her native language demands. “Que lástima.”

He arches a brow at the words and she notes there is no hint of confusion. Instead, his blue eyes roam over her face, scrutinizing her with such intensity that something stirs at her core. The last time he looked at her that way, he had carried her to his bed immediately afterward.

Lilac feels her smile vanish as she becomes too aware of how close they are standing, bodies hot with exertion. Palpable, white-hot tension crackles between them, making her body ache for him.

“What's a pity, Rookie, is you not realizing I speak enough Spanish to understand that,” he says in a gritty voice, the familiar baritone sending throbbing heat throughout her body.

Brain hazy with the spell of blue eyes, she is slow to respond. Her mind whirls between the way he is looking at her, eyes intense with longing, and his previous revelation. “You know–?”

She doesn’t finish the sentence because he moves impossibly closer, eyes still locked on hers, bodies so close now that her chest grazes against his upper abdomen with every ragged breath.

In a voice so dangerously low, her body is abuzz at hearing it, he says, “Can an old man pin you to the ground?”

There is no time to process the odd question because at that moment, Ethan gently sweeps his leg against hers, knocking it off balance and sending her tumbling down. She lands with a soft thud on the cushioned mat.

Ethan grins down at her. “Rookie mistake. Don’t get too cocky or your opponent will have an easy target.”

Lilac stares at him, awestruck. The back-lighting of the ceiling lights above him throw his face into contrast, making his already defined, angled jaw the most torturous sight she’s ever seen.

As if he doesn’t look devastating enough already, he laughs. When she makes no effort to move, he offers her his hand to help her up.

Lilac takes it, and before he has a chance to react, she mutters, “You old fool.”

She pulls with all her might, his surprise granting her enough leverage to send him tumbling down onto the mat beside her. He lands far less gracefully than she had.

Positively elated, Lilac rolls over on top of him, careful to keep their bodies from touching, her knees at either side of his hips. Ethan incredulously glances up at her, then lets his head fall back against the cushion, visibly defeated.

“Who’s the rookie now?” she asks, unable to contain a bout of giddy laughter. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a–”

He kisses her.

Caught entirely off guard, she freezes against his lips. It doesn’t take long for her to recover, however, his demanding lips moving against hers inspiration enough. Her body relaxes against his, sinking down to fully, unabashedly straddle him, all consideration of decency forgotten.

Lips locked on one another, they urgently rid themselves of the boxing gear protecting their hands. Hers find their place at his shoulders, the movement second nature. It is as if her body remembers how to touch him despite all of the time of not having done so.

Ethan's hands, in turn, grip her hips. His fingers dig slightly into the spandex of her leggings as his tongue and teeth lavish her bottom lip with attention. It is then she realizes he is leaning back slightly and holding himself up with sheer abdominal strength.

“It's no wonder your body is ridiculous,” she mumbles hotly against his lips. To drive her point across, her hand descends down to his abs, nails delicately scraping down the hard surface.

Ethan hisses.

Recovering, he pulls back to smirk at her. “Not bad for an old man?”

“Hmm,” she says, panting. “Jury's still out.”

A challenge sparks in his mesmerizing eyes. Another smirk before he swiftly leans back, hoisting his hips off the mat along with Lilac. Her body weight presses entirely against his impressive length.

A strangled little moan leaves her.

At the sound, his smile disappears entirely, eyes darkening even more.

“Fuck.”

He brings his hips back down to the floor, which is probably a good thing for Lilac. She is uncertain how much longer she could have gone without being reduced to a quivering mess.

Ethan sits up to kiss her again, his confident tongue leaving devastation in its wake. His lips find their way to the ridge of her jaw, up to her ear. “How do you always do this to me, Rookie?”

He is not expecting an answer because he moves down to her neck, his beard pickling her skin in a way that is entirely too erotic.

Before Lilac can explicitly instruct what he must do to her body, the blaring of a phone alarm interrupts their movements.

They both curse, Ethan pairing his expletive with a groan. He falls back against the mat, hands rubbing his face.

“Our meeting with June and Baz will start in fifteen minutes,” he tells her through the persistence of the alarm.

“That's enough time,” she tries, mostly joking.

Ethan cuts her a look. “Don't insult me.”

She laughs, rolling off him, her body missing the warmth of his almost instantly.

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PART 2 (NSFW)

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Prompts: sent by anonymous 22. A kiss that is leading to more, but is interrupted by a third party. 33. An unexpected kiss that shocks the one receiving it.

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Author’s note: Ethan speaks Spanish and other languages in my mind. The Duolingo owl is shaking.

Thank you for reading!

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