March 2012
43 posts
February 2012
26 posts
if anyone...
wants to get me a hot water bottle for my birthday (which is in a month), I wouldn’t say no.
… I almost deleted this after realizing how boring/old it makes me sound, but fuck it.
today...
is the 30 year anniversary of the day my wonderful parents met.
blooooooood...
….OOOOOOARANGES!
most delicious library snack since chocolate chip cookies. and I have both!
every time the piolog...
…publishes an article by Lindsey Bosse, I want to poke my eyes out.
adult stuff?
my best friend of seven years got engaged today, and even though they are young, I feel deep down that this one is going to last. cheers!
life goals
-live in Lebanon
-be fluent in Modern Standard Arabic (or Jordanian or both), Spanish, French and maybe more
-conquer my irrational fear of the dark
-live in Morocco
-visit Iran
-learn some Russian and some Italian
-knit some sweaters
-not starve to death
-translate the book I’m writing my thesis about
-be happy and proud of myself at least half of the time I guess?
things that I want that I want to not want
-Smart phone
-iPad/kindle
-to go to France right now NOW NOW NOW
”I demonstrate that liminality is a major unifying thread that runs through all the narratives and argue that it creates alternative existential paradigms for mixed-blood women. Liminality is an appropriate tool that challenges monolithic views of identities through the re-articulation of cultural meanings.”
Literally a sentence I just read. #ohmygodihatemyself #thesis...
I got 99 problems
and not a single one of them can’t be solved by beyoncé
sleepyface
what a strange weekend and monday. i went home for the weekend to be with my family for my dad’s 60th birthday. it was delightful. i saw so many wonderful friends, including my dear best friend of 7 years, amanda. even with all the changes of college and significant others and travels and growing up, i am so lucky that i still feel so close to my dearest friend. it was also so wonderful...
want
-To be done with this essay already
-Tikka masala
-company
sometimes I just... I... don't even...
“I’m honestly just waiting for Hezbollah to attack Israel and start a new war to distract from everything going on in Syria.” —- A Certain LC Student in my Modern Islam class.
facepalm.
there are so many things wrong with that statement that I almost want to die. I mean, I’m not an expert on the Middle East, but people so often use their ‘knowledge’ of...
all i want for my birthday...
… is clothes and gasoline. and to get tipsy with my friends.
mind you, my birthday is 6 weeks away. i think i am just greedy.
health
I have not been in the best of health lately, and I’m trying not to let it get me down, but it’s kind of hard being 21 and feeling like this is probably the best my health will ever been and it is just… not that good. I feel defeated by the chronic pain. it’s exhausting.
to make matters worse, I had a fight with the boyfriend this morning because he called my back...
