just purchased a wide variety of puzzle books and colouring in pages because what do you even do before bed if not doomscrolling

*someone who has flunked their new year’s resolution so far* what if i set new FINANCIAL year’s resolutions

now to explore glasgow via a jog

As a person who was diagnosed with autism 4 years ago but still sometimes questions my validity as autistic, nothing has confirmed it to me like this conference. Sorry to the mutuals I have that I did not build the courage/energy to *actually speak* to. Still had a lovely time, hope you all did!

My ability to be in two places at once impresses even myself sometimes #LILAC26 #UKSG2026

UKSG Day 2! Got a good nights sleep for the first time in ages so i feel much more prepared to speak to people haha!

Need some of my student self’s audacity back because I am experiencing imposter syndrome on a level never seen before 🫠

Never has a tunnocks tea cake been more needed

no one prepared me for the wind in glasgow today.

there HAS to be a better system than the one they currently use at euston

I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

Natural History Museum tops UK attraction list with record visitors

Accidentally became too good at my casual hobby and now my ballet teacher wants to put me into the intermediate class

Absolutely loved my time as an RCN Grad Trainee! Fantastic introduction to the industry, and the loveliest team 💗

some further context to this excellent piece: we have still not seen any modelling on how closing Southend campus will improve the overall finances long-term and what the costs may be and, unlike the other cuts, this has been presented as a done decision in the middle of a teaching day in December

Kindly asking myself to stop redrafting my essay and just submit it so that I can move on to my other existing deadlines and also maybe sleep properly.

Got better at not doing this in my work writing. It has had the unintended side effect that my essays are now Bad

Really channelling Third Year Undergraduate Heather by being very busy and also signing up for dance classes and meal prepping to slightly scary levels

On my desk today: The first book the Zoological Department at what is now the NHM purchased in 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés (1832) has clearly been very well loved by the curators and researchers over the years. Working with these collections can be so surreal sometimes!

Belated #HistDay25 post! Had a lovely time yesterday - lovely to chat to and meet so many people 💗🏛️

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

the fear has gone and i just got to discuss and learn about collection management (one of my favourite things ever) for ages. this was perhaps the most fun idea ever

butterfly effect is crazy because someone (me, apparently) thought a library masters would be a fun idea back in march and now i have to do another degree

just stared my own lack of cardiovascular fitness dead in the eyes cycling through central london

Forgot to show you the deer! I love London so much :,)

Just watched The Devil Wears Prada for the first time ever and I have never seen myself in a character more than Andy Sachs I fear.

Love to plot a hiking route and immediately get distracted by deer and ducks

This USA v AUS game has been INSANE… 5 mins to go and I can’t call who will win

On this fine Saturday I am overwhelmed with nostalgia for autumn term of my third year of undergrad.

used a card catalogue to locate some bound tracts with missing location metadata today and it felt like an escape room

Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!

Will I survive? Unlikely :)

week 1 of new job overview: - caused horror by revealing my year of birth and how old i was when covid hit - got lost so many times - gasped at cool buildings/library spaces/fossils - did lots of fun collections tasks that i have never done before :D 10/10 I’m having a great time

2024/5 GTs - over and out! <3

Final week cry count is currently sitting at 5 separate instances.

lionesses currently in Southend airport, 20 minutes from my parents house, whilst i am in London. they will then do a victory parade in London, whilst I am employed.

also i love london i’ve chatted to SO many strangers this evening

never felt so patriotic in my LIFE

if lucy bronze is seriously injured i’ll just die x

when taylor swift said “we’re happy free confused and lonely at the same time,” she was talking about turning 22 in a city where no one in a 5+ mile radius knows it’s your birthday.

wrote a lovely linkedin post and then linkedin decided to not post the images OR let me remove them so i had to delete it. #misery

would highly recommend booking a seaside trip with your uni housemate ☀️

"'N' are the Nurses, the right sort of wenches..." wrote Joyce Dennys, H. Cordon and M. C. Tindall in 1916. This picture book satirises life in WW1 Army Hospital. Joyce Dennys, its illustrator, had volunteered as a VAD, and had even illustrated VAD recruitment posters. (🧵1/3) #HistNursing

if anyone wants me, i’m laying on the beach and also swimming in the sea x

oxford street IKEA is gods gift to those of us forced to work in central.

Yesterday I moved to London, and as I was leaving Waitrose, the cashier gave me some yellow roses. Maybe it’s the SSRIs starting to kick in, but I’m feeling more optimistic about this new chapter now.

we've hit the part of summer where i can exclusively eat fruit

Have signed a contract and am feeling MORE human emotions

I'm officially looking for my first flatshare in London which means I am feeling the full range of human emotions all at once at every second

Booked my train tickets to Brighton at the end of the month! Pls send cute cafe recs - I'm only there for 48h so want to make the most of my time!