Sunlight shadows on the sidewalk, Friday afternoon, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This afternoon, after clicking over to Blogger.com and pausing before signing in (believe it or not, this is something I do often: I decide I want to update this weblog, I click over to Blogger, and then I just stop, overcome by a feeling of […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
A recent edition of the San Francisco Chronicle contained an article I read with interest. FINDING MY RELIGION: Nipun and Guri Mehta talk about their $1-a-day pilgrimage through India is an interview with two people I am blessed to know, although it’s been months since I’ve seen them in person.
I’ve mentioned Nipun […]

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Scattered thank-yous, mentally noted, from the past two, three weeks:
Thank you to the mailman whom I asked for directions when I got lost going to the evening of live Moroccan music in Berkeley. I don’t think you knew how to get there any more than I did, and you were suitably vague about what road […]

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Scattered thank-yous, mentally noted, from the past two, three weeks:
Thank you to the mailman whom I asked for directions when I got lost going to the evening of live Moroccan music in Berkeley. I don’t think you knew how to get there any more than I did, and you were suitably vague about what road […]

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I’m lazy and still working on writing about my meetup with Anjum - disgraceful, I know - but, meanwhile, here’s a long-ish post for you, about this past Monday, no less.
ONE. Taking a nap on the living room floor, smackdab in the middle of the pool of sunshine spilling through the front windows and onto […]

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I’m lazy and still working on writing about my meetup with Anjum - disgraceful, I know - but, meanwhile, here’s a long-ish post for you, about this past Monday, no less.
ONE. Taking a nap on the living room floor, smackdab in the middle of the pool of sunshine spilling through the front windows and onto […]

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Feeding the birds, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[You can find all my photos from this day here. They’re more fun when you view them individually, so take the time to click through one by one, if you get a chance.]
Three days ago, I stepped inside the County of Alameda Administration Building […]

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originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The above photograph was taken last Friday, after I had completed Jummah salah (the Friday congregational prayer) in Oakland and decided to swing by downtown Berkeley really quickly. […]

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Driving back to my corner of the Bay Area this afternoon after dropping HijabMan off at the Oakland Airport, I merged onto the familiar Hwy-24 from 880, and, as the road curved down and then up again, the fog and gloom suddenly gave way to sunshine, and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud in […]

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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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lather, rinse, repeat
The soap they use inside the carwash is blue and purple, and it smells like bubblegum.
(In desperation, I took my car through the carwash for perhaps only the second time in my life, but it didn’t do so hot a job after all, even though the car looks kinda sorta decent now. I […]

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good things
- L buying me a Carribean Passion fruit smoothie from Jamba Juice
- Sarah McLachlan’s Afterglow album
- The expression on Seher’s face when she walked into her “surprise birthday party,” held about a month-and-a-half before her real birthday
- Wandering down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, watching Seher pick out her bajillionth pair of dangly earrings. “Stop […]

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Some people like taking a break and “getting away” when the stress hits and life feels like too much to handle. I, on the other hand, can’t really complain about my life, so I randomly decide to “get away” whenever I want to, without regard for whether the days are good or bad. It’s fun, […]

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today is whatever i want it to be
I have so many stories to share with you – insights, conversations, observations, incidents, interactions, meetings – each playing an important role in my two-week hiatus from this weblog.
I don’t even know where to start.
I could tell you about my sister – whose final exams ended two weeks […]

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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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