Anyone with access to the children’s section of your local public library…go find and read The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau and Gail de Marcken. GORGEOUS illustrations and a beautiful storyline! Basically, it’s about a generous quiltmaker who sews the most beautiful quilts in the world, and then gives them away to those who are […]

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so today was like THE most unproductive day ever. But it’s all my own fault for having vampire-ish tendencies and heading off to bed at 5 a.m. :-p I was supposed to wake up at 8, but instead shot upright in bed in a major panic at 12 noon. Yeahhhh, it was a great feeling, […]

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yo peoples…i seem to be getting some visitors in this thingie. WOW, awesome! lol. probably cuz i’ve been going on a commenting rampage on other people’s blogs recently. hecka fun stuff. ;) so anywayz, thought y’all might find this quiz interesting…my Human Development 100A pofessor emailed the link to the class, saying that if we […]

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i forgot to say this earlier…HAPPY FIRST DAY OF DHUL-HIJJAH! The Virtue of the First Ten Days of Dhul-Hijjah, by Shaikh ‘Abdullaah Ibn Jibreen. Some excerpts:
Al-Bukhaaree narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas (raa), that the Prophet (saws) said: “There are not any days in which righteous deeds done in them are more beloved to Allaah than these […]

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So funny…I just got out of physics lab (it was boringggg) and heard someone yell, “Yaaaaaaz!” Turned around, and there’s these 2 girls I tutored in calculus last quarter. So we had a nice little reunion. :) Somehow they ended up commenting on my weirdness, and one of ‘em said, “Yeah, you’re quite the individual, […]

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YESSSS!! it works! masha’Allah. you can talk to me now, peoples! hahahaha :)

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the comments thingie is jacked up! aaahhhhh… so bothersome, man. i wonder how i managed to do that, too. hmm… some people just shouldn’t be allowed anywhere in the vicinity of a computer. LOL. yes, i Do crack myself up. self-deprecation is an indispensable quality. ;) never forget that, peoples! laughing at yourself is good. […]

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just wanna see if the goshdarn comment box works now. dooodooodoodoodoodoodoodooo. yes, i’m singing. stop laughing!

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so i’m sure y’all will be excited to know that the Yaz was sitting at her computer, eating yummy croissants at 5 a.m. Shut up, I KNOW you’re jealous! You know what, I just noticed that when i write emails and stuff, I start out a lot of my sentences with “ok” or “so,” which […]

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i think sometimes we become desensitized to the bad things that happen everyday… I came across these lyrics and it made me think about our crazy modern world where we just walk around in a little bubble. So many of us have it a whole lot better than gazillions of people all over the world, […]

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ok, so it’s past 3 o’clock in the morning, and i’m barely making any progress on this stoooopid paper from hell that I got an extension on and need to turn in one of these years. Tomorrow (oops, I mean, today…it’s Monday already, huh) woulda been a good day to turn it in to my […]

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So on Fridayyyy….I had to put up with psycho Deval for two and a half freakin HOURS in physics lab! (btw, ‘Deval’ is pronounced like ‘navel’ with a ‘D’) Oh and another thing…I wonder why every time Deval and I have physics lab together, our TAs “coincidentally” schedule our seating in such a way that […]

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k i changed my template. let’s see if the damn thing really works. some people really do have issues with html.

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just testing out this crazyyyyyyy stuff. gnarly, dude!

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