i'm in lebanon. i'm having a really nice time. i'm staying with my family in byblos (jbail in arabic) where they live. i've been to beirut once so far and supposed to go again tonight. it's an amazing city. lebanon is an amazing country. yet everywhere we go there is a tense undertone, especially in the capital. checkpoints, bomb searches, ( Read more... )

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for christmas, i got a book by jimmy carter on the middle east, a very nice set of dinnerware, and FO'TEEN-INCH RIMZ.

i'm not travelling this holiday. i'm a little crushed.

my phone is not working (again) which is liberating and frustrating at the same time. hopefully i can get it fixed soon because i want to do something christmasy with friends. does that sound fun? i'll take a poll.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG MY ARABIC TEACHER ASKED ME OUT TO DINNER.

better bring the trojan magnums.

sometimes, i want so desperately to be a white girl with a nice ass.

my arabic teacher canNOT stop talking shit right to my face. i love him so much.

i don't think anyone can fully grasp how much i love christmas. i mean, i consider myself to be a proper jaded, liberal, scoffing-and-rolling-my-eyes kind of young person. but i am so not cynical about the holidays. like, i've already got the charlie brown ( Read more... )

...because jay-z approves armand de brignac

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