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room update!! we got our house painted, so i made a few change in my room especially on my walls<3 i’m so so happy!!

#I have the exact same Van Gogh poster!

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This is a profile about her if anyone wants to read more

“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, “Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a “sinner” and already dead to her, and that she wouldn’t even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, “Oh, momma. I knew you’d come”, and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, “I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family’s large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, “They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here’d come the money. That’s how we’d buy medicine, that’s how we’d pay rent. If it hadn’t been for the drag queens, I don’t know what we would have done”, Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family’s plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the ‘Cemetery Angel’.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

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Studying in old gloomy buildings 🌚

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scenes from a visit to my favorite off-campus cafe

27 APRIL 2024 | 74/100 DAYS OF PRODUCTIVITY

got to visit my favorite off-campus cafe! it's a 30 minute bus ride from my apartment and doesn't have great wifi, but the trek is always worth it

got through content revision for 3 chapters of human physiology for my exam on tuesday

was at the cafe from 11am-5pm

came home, did some chores around the apartment, and got ready for my friend's 21st birthday party! bc work-life balance

🎧: you signed up for this - maisie peters 📚: the southern past - w fitzhugh brundage

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how long before the "outside agitator" tag gets added to the protests ongoing at unis across the US?

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2024.04.10 | Day 81/100 days of productivity

Slept in today and that extra sleep seems to have made all the difference to my mood and energy levels (who knew!). I'm hoping to get done with my decision analysis final essay either today or tomorrow so I can edit and move on to my research proposal for qualitative methods (and eventually get back to the research - which I actually enjoy (no offence to my professors)).

Today's goals:

Drink water (2/3)

Finish readings for tomorrow

Finish first draft of decision analysis final essay

Have a good formal dinner :)

Do at least 1 load of laundry

Get enough sleep

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spring rains around my favourite study spaces

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Saturday 27th | 29/100 days of productivity₊ ｡˚⊹

Water plants

Relax, stretch, make good coffee

Read Everything I Know About Love [30m]

It is Japanese day today!

Revise Japanese flashcards [5m]

Learn Japanese on Busuu [20m]

Listen to Japanese radio (radio garden)

Journal in Japanese [10m]

The light is incredible today. I feel like a cat, lying in sun spots On days like that I feel hopeful

🎧₊ ˚⊹ missing out - maya hawke 🎞️₊ ˚⊹ gossip girl - season 1 episode 4 & 5 & 6 📖₊ ˚⊹ everything I know about love - dolly alderton

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friday 26/04/24

started researching on the basics in planning when moving countries as a uni student!! its very hefty but i think a good organization system makes it easier

♫ redbone - childish gambino ♫

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3/1;

back in the library today, felt burnt out on japanese so shifted focus the last few days to an essay assignment on the buddhist doctrine of emptiness. rained a ton today, but the library is warm and i’m feeling focused.

🎧: tradition - cho co pa co cho co quin quin

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Studying is easy with a cat around 🐱

#study buddy

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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Look at that thats pretty cool

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