Sunshine-y orange, to cheer me up on rainy days like today, by yaznotjaz
Sometimes when I am bored or tired or stressed, I hit “compose” on a new email window and type nonsense. Like this one at work today:
This is one example of the ways in which we can collaborate on projects based around shared issues […]

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From Pearls Before Swine
I’m in the midst of making lists and running errands, and my brother just sent me a text-message:
Keep the twenty dollars, I’m taking your sunglasses. :) muahaha!
He’s referring to the orange-brown aviator sunglasses that the Lovely L Lady convinced to buy (for eight dollars, for the record) from an accessories stand on […]

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Oh, God, this is me everyday, and especially on days called “Monday”:

[Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.]
Thank you, fathima, for the pointing me to the link.

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And then the sun came out, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Clearly, I am highly useless at this one-post-a-day drama.
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Now that this ridiculous work-week is over, I can breathe more easily. I drove to the office this morning while squinting against the sunshine, wearing the orange-brown aviator sunglasses the Lovely L Lady recently approved and made me […]

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“Smug expression on the slightly bow-legged bull in center front,” originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
While taking photos at Oakland’s Lake Merritt one gray afternoon, I zoomed in on this pier because I thought someone had spray-painted the word “HOT” on there, which I thought was the funniest thing in the world. Only when uploading the photos […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
This is just a public service announcement/placeholder post to let you know I’m here! and alive! And I have bajillions of stories to share with you all, but not nearly enough time to type them out. So, give me a few days. Also, I’m sorry for being such a bastid about never […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
I took the above photo in mid-January and uploaded it to flickr in mid-February. The title:
Somehow I trick myself into believing that if I go around wearing floaty summer dresses, winter will end all the sooner.
The caption:
This day’s wardrobe consisted of the following: Flared jeans + floaty summer dress + […]

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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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Yurt at Zaytuna Institute, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[You can check out some more Zaytuna photos from a few weeks ago here, if you are so inclined.]
I spent most of last Saturday with my sister, as we went on a manic event-hopping spree that consisted of the Birth of a Prophet program at UC Berkeley, the […]

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You know what’s annoying? When you write an entry and post it, and then later, while cleaning up your desktop, come across a file containing an already-half-written entry (actually, bullet points) that you were planning on posting for that event but then forgot all about. And since the already-posted entry in question was two posts […]

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I love swings. I think we’ve pretty much established this by now. And if I had to choose one single reason why I love my mother, it would be because when I said the other day, “Ummy, I want to go to the park and play on the swings. Do you want to come […]

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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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clean up on aisle three
I love Safeway. I love it so much that I have no qualms about linking my favorite grocery store in a weblog post. One of the things I love about the place is that it takes exactly four minutes to get there. In case you didn’t know already, I have grocery […]

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fulfilling the daily “sunshine colors” quota
I’ve just finished eating two yellow waffles off a yellow plate painted with yellow-orange flowers. I can already tell it’s gonna be a good day.

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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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