This way down, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Four years of blogging, and up ’til now I’d managed to dodge completing any memes thrown my way (I’ve been tagged for my share, though, you can be sure; I still owe you one, Maliha!), and I still don’t even know how to pronounce the word “meme,” so why […]

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All photos originally uploaded by yaznotjaz; collage created last summer by Hashim_A, rockstar (and tea-lover. gross!) extraordinaire. Photos may be individually viewed in the Muir Beach photoset.
-Tomorrow is the sister’s birthday, and in ten days it’s mine - and I’m so horrible at this birthday business, mine or anyone else’s. Last year, all I wanted […]

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When I came in to work yesterday morning, I checked my personal emails and found this one - accidentally, I’m assuming, sent the evening before by an administrator from my alma mater, to the University’s pre-health sciences listserve, of which I’m still a member (yeah, don’t ask - I don’t know why, either):
Hi, P!
Hope you […]

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We are like these things, impermanent and unpinned; originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. [Click here for larger view.]
A few things I have been grateful for, so far this week:
one. …That so many of you took the time to read my last post about Imran Saithna. And that, for once, my commenting system seemed to cooperate […]

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Courtyard of Lions, originally uploaded by Imran Saithna.
And we meet…to depart,And then depart -Just to meet again. *
The problem with - and the beautiful gift of - the internet is that I always fall a little bit in love with everyone I interact with. I refer mainly to blogistan and flickr, since those are the […]

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