Tonight, I have here at my elbow:
- One canister of Pringles
- Two bottles of cranberry-apple-raspberry juice
- Five assorted candy bars
Now let’s see if that’ll be enough to get me through the night.
Tomorrow, I have a midterm exam and a paper due, both of which I forgot about ’til now, because I’m oh-so-smart like that. […]

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We’ve just spent an hour of our lecture time watching a film called Real Women Have Curves, and another hour discussing our reactions to this movie about a Mexican family in Los Angeles, about a teenaged girl moving between two worlds. As usual, I throw out a few thoughts about identity as fluid and impermanent, […]

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My daddy-o had his birthday today.
Whenever we were little and his birthday came around, we used to ask how old he was, and he’d answer soberly, but with eyes twinkling, “I’m twenty-seven now.” And we’d giggle and protest, “Noo, you’re not! How old are you really?”
Twenty-seven is his favorite age. “Why twenty-seven?” we still […]

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My dad, baffled, a week ago: Yasminay, how can you be my daughter, and not know how to multi-task?Me: I’m sorry, but I just think there’s just something wrong with the idea of cooking chicken and eating ice cream at the same time.
This was after he came home from the grocery store and gleefully presented […]

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I was still eleven years old when we moved away from the Bay Area, and I promised myself that when I grew up and had children of my own, we’d always live in one place. I promised myself that they wouldn’t have to deal with the self-consciousness, the uncertainties, the resentment that constant moving presented, […]

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my daddy, the geranium man
J: come back!!!
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Auto response from Yasmine: i say everyone should have a cool father who has awesome ideas like, “Let’s go have a picnic on the lawn!” ;-)
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J: oh man, that dad is cool
J: is he yours?

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I lean back into my seat in the university library’s 24-hour room, wince at the unrelenting hardness of my wooden chair, and ruefully wonder what possessed me to study here. I think longingly of the small, private, third-floor room where I usually study: broad tables with polished black surfaces, muted voices, chairs with cushioned seats. […]

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run-on sentences are so much fun
Has anyone been noticing that my posts are getting shorter and shorter? I was scrolling through some of my archives early this morning, looking for things to do to stay awake, and the fact that I was half-asleep and struggling to write a coherent paper did not put me in […]

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almost last day of freeeeeedom!
Man, my break flew along sooo fast, and I seriously don’t even know where the week went. The day after tomorrow is Monday, and I’ve just realized that I have a class at 8 a.m. How the heck do I manage to get myself into these 8 a.m. classes, is what […]

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i want sunshine and a laptop!
Yeah, so I know I shouldn’t be blogging when I’m supposed to be doing some hard-core studying and stuff. But my latest research paper is boring the heck out of me, and I need a break. Particularly since I’ve been up since 5 a.m. working on this sucker. My vampire […]

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YAY for Nap-time! (Do I really say “Yay” a lot? I think Abez thinks so…)
ok, so I’m finally baaaack! Kinda sorta. I may actually need another few days to recuperate from the not-enough-eating-and-definitely-not-enough-sleeping routine I put myself through during the last couple of weeks as I was studying for and then taking my midterm exams. […]

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MBAs, Munchies, and Milk
I decided to be smart like a lot of you people out there and add titles to each of my posts, since all my posts look the same (being an average of 4938979 paragraphs long), and maybe a title will help y’all make sense of my rambles. Or maybe not. Let me […]

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I feel way tired today, and I’ve only gone through 2 days of classes so far. lol. I think it’s the commute, because even though I’ve been going to bed pretty early and getting plenty of sleep, my one-week break from driving got me all out of shape. Funny how, for other people, “getting in […]

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