beautiful day
Last Friday morning, while the Bay Area weather was still cool and breezy and traffic was negligible, my (and Shereen’s :)) halaqa group drove up to meet at my house. We packed our picnic lunches and endless snacks, made sure to grab plenty of water bottles, waved fi aman’Allah to my ummy, and set […]

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is this the part where i go cry now?
hmm, so my enetation comments link hates me, since it’s pulled a disappearing act. There’s nothing like MIA comments to make me not want to blog. (Ok, so I like getting feedback to my writing. So at least I admit it. So shoot me.) And I decided […]

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hmmmm…
Salaam, everyone. What’s up, what’s up? Because I don’t have any interesting stories from my psychotic life to relate for today, I’m just going to prompt y’all to go check out Shereen’s graduation speech, which is finally posted on her blog. I think it’s an awesome speech, masha’Allah, and, no, of course I’m not biased […]

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almost last day of freeeeeedom!
Man, my break flew along sooo fast, and I seriously don’t even know where the week went. The day after tomorrow is Monday, and I’ve just realized that I have a class at 8 a.m. How the heck do I manage to get myself into these 8 a.m. classes, is what […]

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break time, yay time, nap time forever!
Salaam, everyone! Sorry I haven’t been around lately. Trust me, it’s taking me forever to get over the traumatic experiences of the past few weeks…all that drama about finals and allnighters and papers and study sessions and more allnighters. And not nearly enough meals, yeah.
Things I Never Knew […]

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blah days
::Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)::
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
My mom says some days are like that.
Even in Australia.

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i want sunshine and a laptop!
Yeah, so I know I shouldn’t be blogging when I’m supposed to be doing some hard-core studying and stuff. But my latest research paper is boring the heck out of me, and I need a break. Particularly since I’ve been up since 5 a.m. working on this sucker. My vampire […]

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school sucks - you heard it here first [aka the shortest post in yaz’s history of blogging - who woulda thought i was capable of such restraint?]
when, oh when, will it all finally end?
one “midterm” and three papers down…
four papers, a final exam, and various other odds and ends still to go…
after wednesday, i shall […]

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