Since I’m trying to study for my neurobiology final and most of my real-life conversations for the past few weeks have been irritable outbursts about how much I hate science classes, I thought I’d share a poem I wrote a few years back. It’s a bit different from the last one. This one is something […]

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hamsafar.
After picking my mother up from our relatives’ in Sacramento last week, she and I settled into my car for the hour-long drive home. After the usual impatient verbal tussles (“Why is the seatbelt always messed up in your passenger seat?” “It’s because you always twist it the wrong way whenever you use it, Ummy.” […]

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vindication.
On the phone with my father, two weeks ago:
Me: So, guess what, Daddy khana! It turns out I got an A- on my NPB midterm!Daddy-o: Really! Wow!Me: Yup. I can’t remember the last time I even passed any sort of bio exam. But now I have to keep studying so I don’t get all arrogant […]

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While studying inside Peet’s Coffee&Tea for the first time and loving their tall stools with the slightly-curved backs:
1.Little Girl: Coffee!Mother, firmly: No coffee.Little Girl: Coffee beans!Mother: No, honey.
A little, fluffy white dog paces to and fro outside in front of the door, wagging its tail. The mother and daughter step outside and the little girl […]

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birthday in berzerkeley.
[So this was almost a month ago. June 24th, to be exact. So? I’m trying to update you on my life here. Get used to it.]
When you’re a recent college graduate and you feel like you can finally start doing exactly what you used to brusquely tell people you’d be doing when they […]

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i guess it’s possible that i have been a bit distracted/and the directions for me are a lot less in demand.
Hi, is this thing still on?
Okay, so while I was drag-racing down the freeway in my car this morning [I mean, really, where else would you find me?], I was listening to that Barenaked Ladies […]

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