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We’re all going to the end of the line: Open letters to my fellow commuters

yasmine — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:09:41 +0000

Public transport is ROCKING, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. ZB suggested one evening in Toronto that I should create a weblog-category based around BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), so that everyone can read all my stories of being hit on while using public transportation. The idea made me laugh, but I’ve taken it under consideration and created [...]

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 [...]