"My life is absolutely meaningless. When i consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, and in the fourth, a dust-brush."
Important goings-on in life:
1) Paz on plane to America
2) Bhangra basement
3) Euripides
4) Alcoholics Anonymous bigbook. It's incredible.
"Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you fo find a Power greater than yourself which can solve your problem." Life without escapism is not life? Bite me. 
according to my favorite thing ever, wikipedia,
Unlike English, many other languages have traditional terms to denote limerence, like the German Verliebtheit, Scandinavian forelskelse or Russian влюблённость (vlyublyonnost); these expressions may roughly be translated to “fallen-in-love-ness”.
That was a really crazy time for both of us. Am I right , am I right???
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
I consistently scored male on my analytical writing and female on my creative (ie writing where I talked about myself) writing. SEXISTS!
i think it was a.e. housman who invoked that line in the context of this pome
Iam ver egelidos refert tepores,
iam caeli furor aequinoctialis
iucundis Zephyri silescit aureis.
Linquantur Phrygii, Catulle, campi
nicaeaeque ager uber aestuosae:
ad claras asiae volemus urbes.
Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari,
iam laeti studio pedes vigescunt.
O dulces comitum valete coetus,
longe quos simul a domo profectos
diversae varie viae reportant.
now spring brings back the warm air
and the fury of the equinoctial heavens
grows silent by zephyr's pleasant breezes.
the phrygian pastures must be left
and the rich fields of nicaea as well.
now the restless mind wishes to wander
now eager feet grow sure with zeal
o sweet fellow travelers, be well,
you who, having set out from home together
now return divided by separate paths
bad translation but it makes me think of my life
my heart hurts as well. i'm overwhelmed.
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Anyway I've been checking the weather compulsively and my heart is swollen, or maybe it is collapsing on itself. I can't really tell because I have to spend all day (and night!) in the library.
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
i have been extremely studious the past few days. this has been mildly gratifying but mostly depressing because i see out the window, i know that it is beautiful outside and that i could be making myself a very nice sun tan but instead must sit in the rosecrans reading room and write about the hadith. this should cheer me up a bit:
at least the umma will be pale.
in other news. this is my favorite hadith:
Volume 1, Book 6, Number 319:
Narrated Zainab bint Abi Salama:
Um-Salama said, "I got my menses while I was lying with the Prophet under a woolen sheet. So I slipped away, took the clothes for menses and put them on. Allah's Apostle said, 'Have you got your menses?' I replied, 'Yes.' Then he called me and took me with him under the woolen sheet." Um Salama further said, "The Prophet used to kiss me while he was fasting. The Prophet and I used to take the bath of Janaba from a single pot."
I think I may get myself a menses sweater. I googled menses sweater and it looks like this: 
I googled menstrual sweater and it looked like this:
this is a cool shadow
it came from this
my really cool night table
wall plus lamp
wall plus refrigerator and some door
paz can you do this with your room?
please let's ichat . i am discovering a whole new world with this cOoL built in camera. these are the first photos ive taken in an upcoming series of sexy shots (of myself)
# of cools in the post - 3. i need to develop a larger active vocabulary
