one.I made a fruit smoothie (out of peach yoghurt, cherries, orange juice, and crushed ice; it was a’ight) and stood at the kitchen sink, drinking the excess straight out of the blender, and I felt like such a boy. It was fun.
two.I stopped by the drugstore a couple days ago to drop off a disposable […]

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Evidence #49247 on the list of Reasons Why Yasmine is an Incompetent Fool involves me accidentally formatting the memory card on my digital camera and thereby deleting the 200-300 or so photos I took yesterday evening during a wedding mehndi ceremony my sister and I attended. Within two minutes of leaving the bride’s home, no […]

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In my family, the word we use for the massive gatherings in which we lend a helping hand is hashr. I’m not sure if it’s a Hindku or Urdu or Arabic or Pukhtu word. “Hashr karna” [to do a hashr] is one of those phrases we use naturally without analyzing the etymological background, just as […]

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This one goes out to blogger extraordinaire Yaser and to my cousin Somayya [aka SuperDuperWoman aka PrincessPrettyPants (PPP)] and to the at least half-a-dozen other friends of mine who will be taking the MCAT tomorrow. You’re almost done, peoples! Rock it up tomorrow, and then you won’t have to review physics ever again. Because physics […]

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Also: Say hello to my new toy.

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So guess who passed neurobiology?!
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, arrahman, irraheem.[All praise belongs to God, Lord of all worlds, the Compassionate, the Merciful.]
Or, as I like to alternately say, “Good lookin’ out, God.”

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While sitting in class a few mornings ago, I took one of the ultra-fine-point Sharpies I love using for writing out of my bag and scribbled BALANCE on the back of my hand. Later in the afternoon, I penned just below it the names of four people whose phone calls I needed to return, but […]

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