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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THIS…is the fastest way to my heart, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Last Friday, I managed to drag my friend A along with me to Oakland, where I usually pray Jummah salah [the Friday congregational prayer]. I kept extolling the virtues of this favorite masjid of mine, until she reminded me that she had gone there […]

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and nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Random small update on last week: Went roller skating last Wednesday with my sister, and the Princess of the Pretty Pants, and another friend who, in our initial meeting, made it amply clear that she is just as crackheaded as […]

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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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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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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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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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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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A Riddle or Two for You…
#1 (Easy): I am cool yet I love the sun, i wear flip flops in the rain and paint my toes blue even though im secretly obsessed with yellow cuz it’s HAPPY and i want my shades to be orange cuz it makes the world look happy and any boy […]

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Let me tell you about my friend S. My friend S is one of the most selfless people I know, the kind of person who, I’ve realized recently, is always putting everyone else before himself. Somayya is another one of those kind of people. They know it and I know it and everyone else knows […]

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Guest post by Princess Pretty Pants, 3/2005
MEOWCH ATTAAAAACK!!!!!!
SUPRISEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
hahaha I didn’t feel like updating my blog so i’m doing a SUPRISE guest update on this blog! YES, i know i’m lame, but don’t act like you don’t like it! hahaha
So let’s talk about Yasmine “THE DREAM” (that’s her new nickname…only because “the dream” rhymes with […]

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Guest post by Princess Pretty Pants, 3/2005
SUPRISEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
hahaha I didn’t feel like updating my blog so i’m doing a SUPRISE guest update on this blog! YES, i know i’m lame, but don’t act like you don’t like it! hahaha
So let’s talk about Yasmine “THE DREAM” (that’s her new nickname…only because “the dream” rhymes with Yasmine) […]

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and i will never learn to say goodbye to yesterday.
“Are you still sick from, like, 5 weeks ago?” L’s roommate (“the other Yasmine”) exclaimed when she heard me speak a few days ago, and all I could do was shrug helplessly and nod. I remember when I came down with the flu a year ago, […]

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The other day, I mentioned literati in passing to a friend of mine, and received a blank stare in return. This made me realize that there are certain terms and key words and phrases that we often use amongst ourselves within this Blogistan community of ours, but which we don’t necessarily share with friends outside […]

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Guest post by The Lovely L Lady, 12/2004
we missed u mucho.
yea i m at it again, eventhough i warned yasminay that with all these fake updates she would not be up for blog awards anymore- she didnt seem to care about that and i value life so i thought i could compromise the quality of […]

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