Sweep the Sunshine

Even in December, there was sunshine everywhere [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:51:08 PDT

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I am short and always looking up at things.

I want this car [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:59:18 PDT

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Toledo railway station [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:53:59 PDT

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For you-know-who, who loves the vespas, even though he keeps underestimating my attention to said machines.

For Hoda my love, who is going off on adventureS [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:01:14 PDT

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I left Hoda a rambly (4-minute-long) voicemail the other evening as I was shoe-shopping for the sister's engagement. Somewhere in there, I mentioned the turquoise flip-flops I was looking at and contemplating whether or not to buy, even though that hadn't been the point of my shopping session.

Half an hour later, just as I got home, I received a text: "Buy the flip-flops!"

Me: "=) I already did!"

Hoda: "Hahaha good girl!"

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So here you are, Hoda, the flip-flops you were somehow a part of purchasing. This is Addison St. in Berkeley, with the poetry plaques on the sidewalks. The cigarette is not mine, but the cherry Italian soda is (except it has cream in it, which technically makes it a French soda, who knew?), and I was aiming my camera at my feetS just as you texted this afternoon asking me to send you my address ASAP. Tooo much the goodness with the brainwaves! The bricks all say "Make Art," by the way. Throwing in a little Arabic makes everything awesome.

So! As you carry on with your rockstar adventures, my fellow Californian, may you find home wherever you go. And may you always have all that is good and beautiful and blessed, BETA ;)

Now, for the other important estuffS:
1. Take lotsa footoos!
2. Eat lotsa potatoes
3. Don't forget to stab esstyouuuupeeeed people
4. Reply to all my important STOCKER textmessages. And they will all be important.

As our friend, Mr. Malikshahzadaak, would say, "You will be thare tomaro? I think now we chat daily!"

That is all.

If you find this watch on the streetS, please return it to me and I will reward you with strawberry cheesecake ice cream [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:35:53 PDT

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I took this photo sometime last year, right after lunch at my favorite cafe of the yellow walls.

I've had bajillions of watches since I was a kid (I have a slight obsession with time), but I think this is my most favorite - particularly since it fits my wrist so perfectly. (I have to poke an extra hole or two into the bands of most watches, in order to properly buckle them around my skinny wrists.)

Anyway, the watch fell off my wrist this morning and I can't find it (which is ridiculous, since I even sleep with my watch on, so the only time I remove it is when I'm showering), and this makes me disgruntled.

Now you know what it looks like, so if you find it on the streetS, please send it to me.

That is all.

I haven't vacuumed my rug in a while [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:47:58 PDT

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My sister is getting engaged this weekend! And I'm wearing that blue&pink (turquoise&magenta?) outfit. It kinda makes my eyes hurt, but more on this later. Right now, I need to sleep.

fancyschmancyness [Flickr]

yaznotjaz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:47:51 PDT

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My sister is getting engaged this weekend! And I'm wearing that blue&pink (turquoise&magenta?) outfit. It kinda makes my eyes hurt, but more on this later. Right now, I need to sleep.

But I don’t want to write a love song for the world

yasmine — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:58:06 +0000

Post office errands, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. 3 Beautiful Things, the downtown Berkeley post office edition I. One morning, I was at the post office and somehow got into a conversation about languages with the woman at the counter who was helping me with my express-mail packages. And she told me that her now-29years-old grandson, almost 30, [...]

Call me to the ocean, take me wandering through the street/’Cause I feel like going home

yasmine — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:13:28 +0000

Spoonful of Suga, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Sorry for the radio silence at this end, buddy boys. The Grand Move of 2009 occurred last month, and the familia and I are still settling in - not to mention still busy clearing remnants of the last decade out of Casa420. Who knew that, once we relaxed our [...]

I think the shade of you is on the brink/of changing all the ways I see the world

yasmine — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:37 +0000

Purple at Casa420, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Walking out of work the other evening, I crossed paths yet again with everyone’s favorite security guard, he of the 86,400 seconds in a day. As I strode past, he called out after me, “Purple is in!” I turned back, confused. “Oh?” “Yeah! Didn’t you know that? Purple is the color of [...]

So in the morning when I’m waitin’/for the sun to rise

yasmine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:59:32 +0000

Tangier, Morocco, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Those of you who don’t follow my Rockstar Links & Things over at tumblr (and why do you not?, is the question) are missing out on some lovely reminiscing going on today, so I thought I’d cross-post for you here. If you click here, you can hear the Adhan [Islamic call [...]

anywhere you go, it’s the same cry/money worries

yasmine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:53:51 +0000

Aaaand…here’s a screenshot from my getting-taxes-done process! It felt good to get this done early this morning. Yeah, yeah, I was one of those who waited until the last minute…and then fell asleep over my laptop at 1am right in the middle of working on the tax dramas the night before the deadline. Anyway, it’s [...]

I said, Hey you, get out of my fog

yasmine — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:23:28 +0000

Serenity at Santa Cruz (ii), originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Some friends and I are going to be in Santa Cruz this Sunday, hanging out in the sunshine (and there damn well had better be sunshine, or I shall be pissed). I sent out a reminder email a few days ago with the following Highly Important Questions: WHO’S [...]

Whisper codes under the hush sky

yasmine — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:30:24 +0000

What a mess (ii), originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Things I Have Wikipediaed in the Last Couple of Weeks (in No Particular Order): -empanada -Amadou et Mariam -Dera Ismail Khan -inside baseball -Ashleigh Brilliant -mitthai -Amanda Plummer -Hasan Abdal -Sabian -Girl in a Coma -acupuncture -Amel Larrieux -Whatever, Martha -sheesha -Aramis -Ganga Jamuna -Hafiz -Amir Khusro -electric slide -The Hold Steady -Timur -porsche -Sandra Day O’Connor -Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye -Settlers -Serenity (Firefly episode) -technocultural studies -Ahmed Faraz -parkour -Michael Ignatieff -Regina v. Dudley and Stephens -August: Osage County -public [...]

Let’s go to sleep in Paris, & wake up in Tokyo/Then we can land in the motherland

yasmine — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:53:02 +0000

The better to stab you with, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Wednesday, 11 March 2009 My colleague ducks his head through the doorway this evening on his way out of work and calls out, “Bye, Jasmin!” “You call me that again, and we are not going to be friends anymore,” I mutter sourly, without turning my eyes away from [...]

By the way/I saw your friends today and they all said you’re great

yasmine — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:30:54 +0000

Tangerines!, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Hi, is this thing still on? I know. It’s been a long while. Owl has tried shaming me with harassment tactics, and H (”Yasmin Without an E”) has probably resignedly reverted to reading about immunoglobulins, and Baji’s still holding out hope, and Hashim has given up altogether. I like when I beat [...]

I wake up every mornin’ and I’m steppin’ out the door

yasmine — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:15:40 +0000

Change of plans: On a plane to Spain, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. Months ago, when Maryam headed off to Egypt to study Arabic for a year at the AUC, we promised her we’d go stalk her in Cairo. She taunted us with “Maryam is in Cairo” gstatus messages (this screenshot is from late September), and finally, [...]