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Joni Mitchell, John Guerin, Neil Young, David Crosby, & others, ca. 1974 © Joel Bernstein.

I crashed out and I’m currently taking a gap year, I spend my days writing and laying in my bed like a feverish victorian man. I’m going to start a different degree this september.

Oh, well. All this to say you never know where life will talke you.

Love,

Anna

I am starting uni on September 16th. I am scared, as I don't know anybody (all of my friends are going to other colleges, and studying things far more useful than literary studies and classics).

A couple months back I went on a tour of the humanities faculty building and it is absolutely beautiful, it looks like it could belong in a Donna Tartt novel, or a Shirley Jackson story: creepy, kind of unsettling, old, reminiscent of gothic architecture, beautiful.

I am excited, but also extremely confused, when I was building my timetable I realized none of my classes were on Fridays, and upon further research I found out there is no class on Fridays. I am confused about that.

Anyway, as I do every year before school starts, or, As I've done for the past three years, I will be re-reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I have had to buy a new copy because the one I've had since 2021 is so used the pages fall off. I am currently reading The Goldfinch, also by Donna Tartt.

Have a good academic year, lots of love,

Anna.

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I got the flu so I missed my creative writing class today. I got my project corrected on my e-mail, though!! I might post a snippet on here, the full thing will be over on substack.

I got new books! Gótico Botánico (a short story collection about plant related horror) for a bookclub and short stories by Samantha Schweblin.

I’m drawing a lot these days.

Have an awesome weekend,

Love you,

Anna.

I will always be a 1940s introspective female author wannabe.

I am starting uni on September 16th. I am scared, as I don't know anybody (all of my friends are going to other colleges, and studying things far more useful than literary studies and classics).

A couple months back I went on a tour of the humanities faculty building and it is absolutely beautiful, it looks like it could belong in a Donna Tartt novel, or a Shirley Jackson story: creepy, kind of unsettling, old, reminiscent of gothic architecture, beautiful.

I am excited, but also extremely confused, when I was building my timetable I realized none of my classes were on Fridays, and upon further research I found out there is no class on Fridays. I am confused about that.

Anyway, as I do every year before school starts, or, As I've done for the past three years, I will be re-reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I have had to buy a new copy because the one I've had since 2021 is so used the pages fall off. I am currently reading The Goldfinch, also by Donna Tartt.

Have a good academic year, lots of love,

Anna.

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov original Pat Bateman???

I FINISHED MY EXAMS!!! AND I PASSED EVERY CLASS!!! I did get some grades that I am not too proud of, but overall I am doing a lot better than I was doing this time last year.

since I don't have exams I have a lot more free time on afternoons and weekends, I have been reading a lot lately, also watching TV and sleeping, overall just relaxing.

Also, the weather is changing and it is colder now, I can wear sweaters :)

Anyways, Lots of love

Anna 🫶🏻

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