must-see muslim tv?
I’ve known about this for quite a while already, but it was still heartening to see Saturday’s edition of a local newspaper carrying a front-page article titled, “Must-See Muslim TV?” about several Bay Area residents’ idea to “start the country’s first Muslim-themed cable channel.”
Read more about the project at www.bridges.tv. They need […]

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listen carefully, kiddos
Never pull three allnighters in a row.

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dennis the menace
I met a little boy yesterday. His name is Dennis, but he looks like a five-year-old version of the character Malcolm from the television series “Malcolm in the Middle.” Brown-haired and green-eyed, he earnestly wishes his father weren’t angry with him so often, and that his parents would get along better.
He’s only […]

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- I was supposed to have finished reading a four-hundred-page book last week so that I could use it as the major reference for my paper that’s due Thursday. Too bad I haven’t even made it past page eighty-five or so. And my all-nighter vampire child skills are declining rapidly. Thus, the answer to all […]

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when all else fails…
U: ok…hey:
U: Do you think it’d be odd if I became so well-off, like real comfy in life
U: I mean not having to answer to anybody…
U: And then I started dressing like a pirate
Yasmine: hmmmm
Yasmine: Pirate?
U: You know, eye patches, do-rags on the head, and shredded shirts
Yasmine: Why a pirate?
Yasmine: Eye patch […]

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I lean back into my seat in the university library’s 24-hour room, wince at the unrelenting hardness of my wooden chair, and ruefully wonder what possessed me to study here. I think longingly of the small, private, third-floor room where I usually study: broad tables with polished black surfaces, muted voices, chairs with cushioned seats. […]

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do it, just do it.
Another day, just believe,
Another day, just breathe,
Another day, just believe,
Another day.
Just breathe.
Breeeeeeeeathe…
Why is that always the hard part anyway?

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so where’s your focus?
By my standards, I haven’t posted anything thought-provoking for a really, really long time. Seriously. So here’s something I received as an email forward. Good story. Really short story, too. It’s all about perspective, yo.
Once upon a time [okay, so I added that part myself, but pay attention], there was a very […]

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Somayya and I, wasting our lives away in anthro lab:
Somayya: What’s a lower molar cusp pattern? And a dental arcade?
Me: I have no idea, dude.
Somayya: Didn’t he just go over this in lecture today?
Me: Yeah, but I wasn’t paying attention. Or maybe I fell asleep at that part.
Somayya: Great, that helps.
Me: I think the dental […]

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studying dead people (and not-so-dead ones, too)
So, because I know y’all are just dying to know, I’m taking two anthropology courses during this summer session: Anthro 1 and Anthro 2. Exciting, no? Half the time, I forget which is which. I go to class thinking we’ll be talking about dead people, and the instructor starts […]

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Earlier this week, I spent a few hours helping proctor the math and chemistry placement exams that incoming freshman have to take in order to prove their eligibility for the introductory calc and general chem series. As a proctor, one basically checks ID, signs in these kids, passes out scantrons and pencils, gets them seated […]

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so i wonder when they’re going to start paying me for taking naps
Late-Night AIM Conversation (OR, the Things I Say When I’m Half-Asleep):
Ben: but I want money
Ben: it’s nice for buying things
Yasmine: no way? is that what it’s for?
Yasmine: wow, I’m so glad you told me
Yasmine: cuz I was thinking maybe you’re supposed to eat […]

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