So Ladies ( Read more... )

In one day, today, I saw/ran into by accident all the boys that I ever dated/ used as a date for a dance in my life in Clifton park except for one. Granted, that's only four people...but four coincidences like that is still pretty strange, especially considering I didn't run into anyone else, just them ( Read more... )

Whew, so glad I can now read for pleasure and sleep when I'm tired.

I suppose it's good to be home!

It's official, I'm attending the Arabic program at the Lebanese American University in Beirut this summer ( Read more... )

So tonight, I decided was going to be a Chicken Marsala/ wine and cheese night. A few people made fun of my but my roommates loved it because I front all the money for my ridiculous ideas. I acted on my decision we got a merlot...and it was amazing. If this is what my twenties are supposed to be like, I'm so excited. Twenty sounds frighteninig, ( Read more... )

The movie Boys Don't Cry is possibly the most challenging movie I've ever watched. It was definitely the most graphic, but it's to a point a very good, extremely uncomfortable point. I'm so moved and impressed with the Hilary Swank and Chloe Sevigny. "As part of her extensive preparation, she created a male alter ego and spent close to a month ( Read more... )

that I said I would never become consumed by because they are pointless. They siphon useful energies and will never have answers. No philosopher has ever been proved right! And yet I feel like I'm not going to be able to properly think about anything else, so to summarize ( Read more... )

Why, when I've just figured out what I want to be doing for the next year, must there be an assassination? Why must it be my aunt's progressive boss, an icon of the free press in Lebanon, that was killed? Why must people resort to the idiocy of murder time and time again? Why are we able to ask far more questions than we will ever have answers

Last night, I saw Fiona Apple at the Orpheum in Boston.  I don't think I can ever see a more powerful concert in my life.  I'm going to sound  really obsessed, even a twinge crazy, but she effected me so much, it was so strangely moving.
( Gushing about the concert )

I just bought my Fiona Apple tickets to go with Mariam :)
Dec. 7 Boston Woooohooo

Thrilling!!!!!!!!!!!!