Victory in the face of finals!I have completed the knit headband (one of my two secret projects, in case you were keeping score), and it’s glory is featured above!Having other projects like that one really keeps me sane in the face of other more overwhelming tasks, like art projects and essays. I am occasionally asked […]
Something that I have to remind myself of every day I take off: the meaning of relaxation is to not to think about its end. This vacation has been about that principle in a lot of ways – staying in the present and enjoying the minutes, forgetting (or at least being ok with the idea […]
(Muslim and proud.) I have not written about a contentious argument this month, but there are some things that just push my buttons. I am a routine reader of Salon.com’s Broadsheet, and recently they posted up an article about Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapping and how her captor used a veil to keep her secreted away. But […]
So, after a period of intense quiet around the blog, I have decided to resurface in pictures. In the next three days, I am going to overhaul my life once again and move back to NYC for the school year. Over the summer, I have completed many an interesting project, but I have realized that […]
All photographs courtesy of Heather H. Thanks! Just me, looking like a weirdo and scaring people around me again… Check out some more posts featuring my photography and guest photographs.
Today (and yesterday), I have embarked on the Make J Pretty scheme. It’s not just for prom, though that seems like the most obvious reason. No, in truth, I have just found the urge to make myself pretty for myself and my new boyfriend [Joshka, if you were wondering – see Facebook or this picture, […]
I’ll take my pick. As foretold by the ancient seniors of old, I believe that my desire to do anything has just gone down tenfold. Scratch that. My desire to do things remains the same, but my motivation surrounding said things is waning. Following the days of my intense productivity, my “normal” mode has been […]
That was so cliche that I just might kick myself. Seriously.But, other than my lack of creative entrances, I have realized that the pent-up feeling that I have been noticing recently? Yeah, it’s a result of not writing/blogging for a while. And hence, I have (unceremoniously and completely crazily) returned.As much as all that introspection […]
This is such the more epic tennis shot than the one they gave me for sports photos! (Curse those fools! They cut out my multi-colored socks!)Anyway, I have been reading a lot of blogs, articles, and things-that-generally-aren’t-books in the past few days and realizing: they’re just as valuable. I have not had the urge to […]
Today has been a strangely slow day – which has made me anxious and reflective for most of it.The anxiety probably stems mostly from my inability to write this graduation speech (agh!). I have all the material that I want to talk about; I think I just burned out on flow from the mind-numbing repetition […]