when it rains it pours and opens doors/and floods the floors we thought would always keep us safe and dry
I’m quite obviously not a boy, but sometimes I really wouldn’t mind being one. Because, you know, I really think there are certain advantages to being a boy.
Take today, for example: If I were a boy, […]

[Read more →]

hella trippy, hella fun, hella nor-cal, what?
Hours of amusement, entertainment, you name it. Okay, so maybe not hours. But still, the things I do to escape from writing research papers… Geez louise.

[Read more →]

spot the fake smiles
Yeah, yeah, so you think you’re so smart and cool and all that. You think people hang on to your every word and can’t stop laughing when they’re in your vicinity. But tell me, how good are you at telling the difference between fake and genuine smiles? You sure they love you […]

[Read more →]

look who’s talking – OR, conversations from the cal computer lab
D: why are you on both screen names?
D: are you talking to your strange buddies?
Yasmine: yeah, like YOU
Yasmine: nahh, i have the beta version of AIM
Yasmine: i’ve linked both my sn’s
Yasmine: so i sign on ‘em both at once
Yasmine: or i sign on ‘em both, […]

[Read more →]

Happy birthday to my favorite (and the one and only) Lean Mean Bean Fooseball Machine!

[Read more →]

some conversation/no contemplation/hit the road
“My poor baby,” laughed Somayya last night, “you need sleep.”
This was after we had walked halfway across campus from the library at almost midnight and climbed four flights of stairs at the parking garage only to find the entire level empty, with nary a car in sight. I stared in alarm. […]

[Read more →]

nothing witty, urbane, erudite, or even coherent – just a disjointed attempt to put my typing skills back in practice
On my bed is a thick knitted blanket. It’s just over five feet long, and narrow, the perfect length and width for my 5′1″ frame. My mother knitted it during the first year after I was […]

[Read more →]

year ONE
I’ve just realized that this weblog has been around for a whole entire year now, and I figure some sort of acknowledgment of that milestone is in order. So let’s make this a thank-you post.
Thank you to –
- Al-Muhajabah, Bushra, Usman, and Yaser, whose weblogs were the first ones I stumbled across, and whom […]

[Read more →]

akhtar de mubaraksha
May you all have a beautiful Eid, insha’Allah!

[Read more →]