good god, she’s aliiiiive! kinda sorta maybe.
Hello, all you beautiful, patient rockstars. No, I have not abandoned you all in favor of spending the rest of my confused, sleep-deprived life on a sunny island like Zanzibar. Real updates are coming soon, I promise!
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just a few of the things that made me smile over the past 2 days, yesterday’s self-pitying post notwithstanding
My friend H finally finishing, printing, photocopying, submitting his 20-page lab neurobiology lab report. Now you see why I don’t have the discipline to be pre-med anymore.
H pulling his last dollar out of his wallet, to give […]

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instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly
It’s going to be another one of those Surah Ya-Seen days, I can tell already. Send some prayers my way.
Donations in the form of blue slurpees are always appreciated, too.

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postscript
Due to popular demand, and because I really want to update but can’t since I have highly annoying papers to write, I’m instead posting my article that was published in the South Asian magazine on campus. Long-time readers may be interested to know it’s an edited and slightly more formalized version of this post from […]

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cooler than cool
Hilarious juxtaposition of the week:
Imam Zaid Shakir walking into the lecture hall, holding a fruit smoothie from Jamba Juice.
Yes, what can I say, I’m really, really easily amused, thankyouverymuch.

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join the club
Two flyers I noticed the other day while taking a psychology midterm I most likely failed but that’s okay:
“MAKE BEARDS NOT BOMBS”
- and -
“All the COOL guys have beards.
WHY DON’T YOU?”
In a seeming reference to the Campus Crusade for Christ (a student organization on our university campus), the bottom of each flyer […]

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surely we belong to God and surely we will return to Him
Everyone, please take a few moments to pray for Arshad’s father, who passed away Saturday.
I wish we could do more, Arshad. But all we truly have to offer are prayers. So - May God grant you a reunion with your father in Jannat-al-Firdaus, […]

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