People ask me about my PhD journey and expect the most horrifying of stories. I was a broke student and only my brokeness stood in my way of having a chilled PhD journey! I am not saying the PhD was easy. It required what it requires for a PhD to be done! 👍

“We are already born and we are going to die so you have to do something you respect in between”~~Toni Morrison

Expectations regarding 🇺🇬 leaders are basement level so this is not surprising 🙄

Just finished reading this good gay novel by South African author @wisaniirvin.bsky.social. Plenty of copies at @thebooklounge.bsky.social

“Izitha zam mazibasa umlilo Mdali nisa imvula” Ngyozama ~ Bab’Motha 🔥

“She simply knew, from a smell, from a frown or a smile that hung out of place” ~ The Woman Next Door

lol this examiner wrote a long ( wonderful ) review of my work, giving it the criticism it deserves and then after reading the last chapter said “oopsie” everything made sense, but it makes more senser now *then quotes the lightbulb line*😂 .

Best For Me 🫶

I’m writing fiction again! And it feels so good 🌼.

Cover letter and motivational letter?😭😭 Hawa, choose one bathong!

Really thought I was being weird for feeling uncomfortable reading tweets from that professor from wits. But they really are struggling to hide their anti-blackness it’s disgusting.

If you do anything today? Listen to this song! music.apple.com/za/album/ikh...

Deja vu mtasekhaya

Spent some time in milnerton yesterday🤭😂 ey I need therapy sessions bruh!!

Thousands of students and learners marched in Cape Town and Durban on Tuesday calling for justice for a seven-year-old who was raped in the Eastern Cape last October. Read groundup.org.za/article/hund... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Sandiso Phaliso, Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

There is a reason why viva exists! Some scholars intentionally misread your work! Yeas we always have to offer caveats! But comprehension surely got you where you are as a scholar!

Yallunder man😭😔

Someone said my handwriting is atrocious and I agree 😭

Hundreds of frustrated villagers blocked roads in Elim, bringing businesses and nine schools, to a standstill. They are demanding that government complete repairs on the D4 road connecting Elim to the N1. Read groundup.org.za/article/limp... by Thembi Siaga

Tom definitely wants to shag the new guy my gosh! Insufferable!

Alfred and Ivy?😭 Daisy up your game.

Sybil is stubborn stubborn. I love the way she speaks doe.

First day of lectures disrupted as over 600 UCT students march on campus. UCT Vice-Chancellor Mosa Moshabela promises to address issues raised by protesting students around financial exclusion Read groundup.org.za/article/firs... by Ashraf Hendricks

I’m enjoying this era of sibu mpanza. “Ewe ta” 🥺😍😭

Miss Jennifer Hudson Where You At era!

Not a runaway groom chile!

Honestly just want to curl in bed and watch all the seasons of Downton Abbey and not have to face these deadlines 😭. I’ve been meeting deadlines almost every week or daily for the past year 😏

From my walk; I’ll miss regular sunlight!

Why am I affected so much by this move? Knowledge of it just ruined my day!

Bates annoys me so much with this loyalty protective thing he has going on!

A group of academics that can’t read between the lines!

Writing acknowledgments shouldn’t be this hard.

It’s sad when you outgrow people but needs to be done!

South Africa is literally peaking! And the SA gov is just watching, waiting for irreversible damage so they can give excuses! Doom!

It’s fair to say it was worth it🙏🏿🫠

The mistake I made was napping at 7pm. Now I can hear uninvited guests singing on my ear🦟

Young, Famous and African is nonsense TV honestly!

Abhorrent!

Grateful for my supervisor. Honestly! I don’t know what I’d be without her direction.

Zadie Smith ~~~ “It's important to understand that just because you can conceive of something and write it and have some insight into it doesn't mean you can enact it in your life.”

“The pain is waning The pang of missing you The strength to sing the blues The hum is constantly growing deeper Seeping into every breath Into every day that I don't see you The salty water Corrodes the blue note of my heart I'm spent you know I can't the fire is raging Furnacing choices”

“Back and forth across the sea all memory floats There among the unburied Back and forth across the sea all memory sinks Among the unburied”

“Indeed, love, a nonmaterial condition, becomes a major context for moving toward freedom.” ~~~Rinaldo Walcott