There is an edge of panic that one usually feels when familiar surroundings have changed, when safe boundary lines have shifted and blurred. It is akin to the feeling I used to have growing up when, waking up during the middle of the night in yet another new home, I’d attempt to blindly navigate my […]

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it’s all in a state of mind
Yesterday afternoon, Somayya and I both groaned as usual when we came in sight of the parking garage and the four long flights of stairs we’d have to climb in order to reach her car, which was parked on the uppermost level.
We had just finished a cross-campus-and-back-again trek […]

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when it rains it pours and opens doors/and floods the floors we thought would always keep us safe and dry
I’m quite obviously not a boy, but sometimes I really wouldn’t mind being one. Because, you know, I really think there are certain advantages to being a boy.
Take today, for example: If I were a boy, […]

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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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yeah, rochester plays mind games with jane eyre, but that’s a whole different story
So I now have a research internship with the M.I.N.D. Institute in Sacramento, and it happened so fast I’m still sort of reeling from the surprise. Not to mention the fact that I don’t know jack about research, and I don’t even […]

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everything I ever took for granted/i want to see it through
I am currently in the process of designing a flyer - based around a gorgeous painting/collage (the scanner doesn’t do it justice, and, of course it’s the machine’s fault, not mine) by my sister - for my internship workshop and I have finally metaphorically […]

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official statement
I have final exams this week, and am therefore taking a break from weblogging. Not necessarily other blogs, but definitely mine at least. Knowing me, I’ll probably still be lurking around blogs anyway; just don’t take it personally if I refrain from commenting. Anyway, at the moment I desperately need the focus and freedom […]

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‘cause it’s me, and my life/it’s my life, it’s my life
I got a letter in the mail a few days ago. I had been expecting it but not watching for it, waiting patiently but not wondering unduly. After a while, I even forgot that it was supposed to be coming.
But I came home the […]

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bartering is the way to go
For iftar today, I ate a kit-kat bar and three mini Reese’s peanut butter cups. But wait, don’t worry, there’s still more left. I have here at my elbow: one king-sized Snickers bar, two mini Snickers, five mini Reese’s peanut butter cups, and a pack of Mambos (they taste just […]

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what? what? what?
Just got done spending almost two hours checking out 115 tables worth of college/university reps extolling the virtues of their respective graduate school programs.
After all those questions descriptions conversations brochures pamphlets smiles quizzical glances handshakes endless filling-out of information cards, I have only two things to say:
- If I thought I was […]

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When I fall asleep during lecture, do not wake me up.
When I shrug into my sweater - mentally kicking whoever raised the air conditioning unit to such a high level - and then sink down into my seat with a long-standing, comfortable disregard for good posture, don’t you dare so much as blink.
When I put […]

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what is this dude on?
What the heck kind of professor gives his class a handout with the following reading assignment? –
- Skip from the bottom of page 74 to the middle of page 78, from the middle of 89 through the top of 90, and from the bottom of 104 to the […]

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at this rate, who needs the gym anyway?
For once, just once, I’d like to go to the College of Letters & Science office without them sending me all the way across campus to the Division of Biological Sciences instead. They always, always, do this to me. And my legs hurt now, man.
You know […]

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Welcome to Fall Quarter 2003. Start preparing yourselves for more ramblings about my seventeen credits course-load (bearable), my paid internship (time-consuming yet exciting), and the fact that I may not be tutoring calculus this quarter as usual (very, very sad, and no, I am not being sarcastic, sheesh). So not only does fall quarter mean […]

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duh. (and your brain stops working when you pull all-nighters.)
Yasmine: i’m so bitter
S: and why is that?
Yasmine: i hate writing papers
Yasmine: it’s so stupid
Yasmine: they should have a major that’s all about drawing crayon pictures
Yasmine: the crayola major!
S: lol
S: it’s called art class
Yasmine: oh yeah

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