look who’s talking – OR, conversations from the cal computer lab
D: why are you on both screen names?
D: are you talking to your strange buddies?
Yasmine: yeah, like YOU
Yasmine: nahh, i have the beta version of AIM
Yasmine: i’ve linked both my sn’s
Yasmine: so i sign on ‘em both at once
Yasmine: or i sign on ‘em both, […]

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Happy birthday to my favorite (and the one and only) Lean Mean Bean Fooseball Machine!

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akhtar de mubaraksha
May you all have a beautiful Eid, insha’Allah!

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i’m telling you, it’s not us, it’s them
The amusing things I find when I’m supposed to be writing a half-dozen papers:
Babelfish Adds Canadian and American to Translation List
Kinda reminds me of Chai’s Dec. 1st post, and the resulting comments. [By the way, what’s up with the jacked-up permanent-links on all these new Blogger templates?]
Okay, yes, […]

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Eid mubarak!
Or, “Akhtar de mubarak sha,” as we say in Pukhtu.
Here’s hoping you all have an absolutely beautiful day, insha’Allah.

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one more day til d-day
Wish you all lived in the Bay.
Website’s still pretty rough, but at this point I don’t think it really matters. Read the bios. Interesting stuff.
Did I realize the overwhelming amount of work this was going to be when I agreed, months back, to help organize this? I don’t think so. But […]

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must-see muslim tv?
I’ve known about this for quite a while already, but it was still heartening to see Saturday’s edition of a local newspaper carrying a front-page article titled, “Must-See Muslim TV?” about several Bay Area residents’ idea to “start the country’s first Muslim-themed cable channel.”
Read more about the project at www.bridges.tv. They need […]

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do it, just do it.
Another day, just believe,
Another day, just breathe,
Another day, just believe,
Another day.
Just breathe.
Breeeeeeeeathe…
Why is that always the hard part anyway?

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so where’s your focus?
By my standards, I haven’t posted anything thought-provoking for a really, really long time. Seriously. So here’s something I received as an email forward. Good story. Really short story, too. It’s all about perspective, yo.
Once upon a time [okay, so I added that part myself, but pay attention], there was a very […]

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“sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me…”
I’ve just turned in what could be, by my standards, quite accurately categorized as the worst paper I’ve ever written in my life (this includes anything I wrote in elementary school too).
Funny thing is, I don’t even give a damn.
And that, indeed, is the key to true happiness and […]

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our world is a sad, sad place…
…and what are we going to do about it?
Umar asked me to publicize the situation in Uzbekistan on my blog. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about the subject to be able to discuss it at length, but you all really should go check out his post to get […]

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hey, i take breaks as a career, okay?
I was laughing at the messages on my tagboard yesterday. sHe posted, “um, Yasmine? It seems u have exams or tests every time. DO U EVER GET A BREAK????? U MAD, MAD, GEEKY WOMAN, give urself a breakkkk; sit back and relax!” [btw, I added in the commas, […]

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is this the part where i go cry now?
hmm, so my enetation comments link hates me, since it’s pulled a disappearing act. There’s nothing like MIA comments to make me not want to blog. (Ok, so I like getting feedback to my writing. So at least I admit it. So shoot me.) And I decided […]

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hmmmm…
Salaam, everyone. What’s up, what’s up? Because I don’t have any interesting stories from my psychotic life to relate for today, I’m just going to prompt y’all to go check out Shereen’s graduation speech, which is finally posted on her blog. I think it’s an awesome speech, masha’Allah, and, no, of course I’m not biased […]

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school sucks - you heard it here first [aka the shortest post in yaz’s history of blogging - who woulda thought i was capable of such restraint?]
when, oh when, will it all finally end?
one “midterm” and three papers down…
four papers, a final exam, and various other odds and ends still to go…
after wednesday, i shall […]

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