Obsession

I have always been the sort of person who goes from one obsession to another. I go through an Oreo obsession when all I want is to eat Oreos-break it half lick the white stuff and then eat the cookies, dunk em in milk-I go through a Kit Kat obsession where I just nibble away on the sides till I've eaten it all. I go through song obsessions where I listen to a playlist or ONE song till I have it engraved in my mind. I also go through people obsessions where all I do is think about a person. But I always move on at some point, just to find another obsession-as in another person to obsess about! So while wasting my time through my latest obsession-YouTube-I found the best Video to show exactly what it means to be obsessed! I love the sounds, and the woman in this animation. I hope you all get what I mean when you see it!

Inspiring Story! Free Hugs Campaign

my forecast for today

You could easily be pulled back and forth between reality and your imagination, not always knowing which is which!

Last minute

I have been at it for FOUR YEARS...reading, writing, talking, researching...and only now when I have given myself the FINAL deadline am I actually getting work done. I have always been the sort who leaves things to the last minute-in pretty much all aspects of my life-but I had thought that my PhD would not be like that. I mean you have to write a minimum of 80,000 words you can't leave that to just a week before you submit. But against all odds and against all logic I have done that.
Well not exactly that...but the other day I finally put all the chapters-6 in total-in one document and found to my SHOCK AND HORROR that I was 30,000 words below limit. The thing is that I had been writing the chapters separately and had thought I was writing to much, fa I was selecting HUGE sections and DELETING-yeah I seem to have forgotten that Word has the option of cut and paste!!!!!!! Anyho I sat and looked at the word counter stating that I 50,000 words, and the inspiration hit-I clicked include footnotes and endnotes-and I was up to 60,000 words...the joy was so overwhelming I had to go and get myself a glass of water! I just need 20,000 words now! HOW does one write that in just a week?????? IFFFFTTTT!

Paranoid

There is level of paranoia that is prevalent in our culture. I listen to people talk/whisper sometimes and I just have to giggle to myself.

The Courtyard

Last night a group of friend and I went to the Courtyard tent. It was my first night out of the house in Ramadan, and it was exactly like I had hoped it would be. We arrived to find the courtyard had been transformed into quite a nice place. The white tent over our heads, with the beautiful chandeliers, the fountain, the pillows and couches that were all in colours of red, purple and maroon. The gifts of masabeh, and friends of mine who had not bought jackets getting the traditional 3abay, it all felt very orientalist yet very Arab at the same time.
I loved it, we played cards, while listening to Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim. It really made me feel like those old Egyptian movies, where you see them sitting around chatting, drinking tea and just chilling. We tried the different Ramadan sweets and drinks-my favourite being Jalab-love Rose water. It was fun experimenting, since most of us didn't know the different sweets and drinks, so people would order and others would taste...we talked about everything and anything.
The perfect night out!

The First Weekenders Group

If we move fast, we can curb the film world's male bias

Going to movies directed by women as soon as they are released is a pragmatic and enjoyable form of feminist activism

Natasha Walter
Tuesday September 26, 2006

This is the sort of activism that we should be participating in...and this is the sort of stuff that I miss the most about living in the UK. Makes me want to go back. :(

The Month has started!

The countdown to Eid has started for me...but more importantly this Ramadan is that I have decided to give up drinking for the whole of the month. I am not doing it so much out of respect for my fellow fasters...but more because it is detox and I want to see if I have the ability to do that. Don't get me wrong I am not an alcoholic, but I enjoy my glass of wine/gin and tonic/Mexican beer...also I guess it is a bit out of respect. I have Christian friends who don't drink during Ramadan, so you would think that a born Muslim would at least attempt it!
I heard the strangest comment last night, a group of people were sitting having a drink and talking about what they are going to do this Ramadan, and one of them stated-loudly or how else would I have heard it-that he plans to have a drink just before Iftar today, and if anyone wants to join him. Now how rude and unneeded is that?!?!? Especially to say it out load, in a public place. No wonder people get violent sometimes, I mean even me who doesn't believe in any of this wanted to get up and slap him a few times. I have no problem with people drinking, but there is NO need to make it such an obvious statement, sit at home, text/call your friends, and invite them over for a pre-iftar drink!
Anyway so that we don't end this post on a negative note,
I wish all those who are fasting a Ramadan Mubarak.
All those who are forced to fast a Ramadan Mubarak.
and all those who are not fasting a Ramadan Mubarak.
Enjoy the tents, and enjoy the Mint Tea!