Not great 🥲

I don’t know why, but I feel like the heatless rollers are a look 👀💁🏾‍♀️

Someone took a candid of me preparing to feed cake to the birthday girl (a tradition in my family for generations to bring good luck for the year), and I think it really captures me 😂

Magic and mischief of the first anniversary of your passing, Ralph ❤️ I have been reunited with the scarf you were wrapped until you were cremated - I thought I had lost it 🥹

Got to the point in thesis editing where I’m having dinner for breakfast, because time isn’t real 😂

Art by Victoria Villasana #giselepelicot

This morning, Mum suddenly grabbed my hand as we watched the news on #GiselePelicot & said: "We teach you girls to be so vigilant, to always stay alert, every minute of the day. But now what? How are we supposed to protect you while you're sleeping too?" And it has broken me.

Celebrating progressing with thesis editing with a singular glass of pink Prosecco (left over from the work-do festivities of the family business). Light reprieve, as back to work ✌️ #littlewins

A bucket of Baileys? Sure.

Guess who cried at Gavin and Stacey🥹🥹

Ready for 2025 as much as I am ready to finish this PhD 💪🎊

I want to see Nosferatu, but one of my ex’s genuinely looks like the vampire and I might find it triggering 👀😂

Got to the point in thesis editing where I’m having dreams about a career in musical theatre, sans the ability to sing or dance 👀😂

More important than ever!!

Back as Criminal Law Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway Law and Criminology for Semester 2! 🥳

Let's make sure we all have a great week. #mondaymotivation #MondayMorning #WordsOfWisdom #words #Motivation #AcademicTwitter #Careers #careeradvice #phdlife #careerdevelopment #selfcare #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #WellbeingImage

I like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke, 2022: "good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

just read a hair-raising line in an essay by Katherine Rundell—“you cannot remain in awe of the familiar, so the only way to maintain wonder is to learn”—and if you need incentive to keep learning, there it is. to stay curious is to stay fascinated.