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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After four years, the sixty-mile drive to school has become second-nature. I scoff at people who complain about supposedly long drives, dismissively citing my own daily commute to school as “nothing.” It has come to the point where I don’t even have to concentrate on driving; I get from Point A to Point B – […]

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Lately, I’ve been feeling really bitter.
In the past four years, I haven’t had a summer vacation at all. My university is on a quarter system, and we have two optional six-week sessions every summer. Every single summer for the past four years, I’ve taken two summer classes per summer session. That means I’ve been […]

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bits and pieces
So the only reason I’ve been neglecting this place is because when it comes down to a choice between sleeping and updating my weblog, trust me, I would much rather sleep.
Anyway, I was informed by various unreliable sources last weekend that my writing style is intimidating, that I’m “detached” from my weblog, that […]

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every time that i see your face,/i wonder what lies beneath your smile
I miss my cute little preschool kids.
And I miss Dennis the Menace, too.
I was reminded of both this afternoon because I stopped by D’s apartment to say hello and was pleasantly surprised to find myself greeted with such unrestrained joy. I’m always amazed […]

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where, oh where, has my spring break gone?
The daddy-o decided to drive my car to work this morning, so I’ve been using one of the SUVs while out and about on the town today. I’m sure you will be disappointed to hear that I refrained from running over any innocent pedestrians or fellow drivers during […]

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i am -
Twenty-three days of sunshine and nights of rain and eyes that crinkle above wide smiles. Twenty-three picnics on the lawn, footraces, cart-wheels, twenty-three summersaults that go awry. Scraped knees and bandaged elbows, sticks and stones and rosebush thorns. Loud laughter and raised eyebrows, twenty-three dismissive glances and tears left unshed.
Twenty-three plans unmade […]

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some conversation/no contemplation/hit the road
“My poor baby,” laughed Somayya last night, “you need sleep.”
This was after we had walked halfway across campus from the library at almost midnight and climbed four flights of stairs at the parking garage only to find the entire level empty, with nary a car in sight. I stared in alarm. […]

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nothing witty, urbane, erudite, or even coherent – just a disjointed attempt to put my typing skills back in practice
On my bed is a thick knitted blanket. It’s just over five feet long, and narrow, the perfect length and width for my 5′1″ frame. My mother knitted it during the first year after I was […]

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I had thought that three weeks of lazily, obstinately making everyone chauffeur me to places during winter break would take its toll once school resumed, but I was wrong. The 120-mile roundtrip is going well so far - as of today, the second day of school - with none of the exhaustion I had been […]

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slow days
Okay, so I know I’m slacking off on the updating. This winter break has made me realize that I have a greater store of interesting/weird stories when I’m actually in school.
During my remaining week-and-a-half of break, I desperately need to:

- Pay some mechanic hundreds of dollars to replace my car’s valve cover gasket, […]

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[Flipping through my course notes the other day, I came across a long, scribbled list of things to do, dated sometime in November. This, of course, is how I effectively occupy my time during psychology lectures. Some of these items I do already. Many of them I want to do more often. All of them […]

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