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Reconceptualizing my presence

Some of you may have noticed that I’m using my Tumblr account more and more often these days. there are two main reasons. 1) I am trying to retrain myself away from simply sharing things on Facebook because many of the things I want to share should be shared with more people than just the …

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Old apartment versus new

Things I will miss most about my current apartment:

  • the view
  • living on the top floor and thus having nobody above me
  • the built-in dresser unit in my bedroom
  • the view
  • the prodigious amounts of light that we get with windows facing the north and the west
  • being high up enough that only the loudest of drunk undergrads can be heard as they walk by
  • the level of intellectual discourse I share with my roommate (this one is a bit of a cheat because he’d be leaving even if I were staying in this apartment)

Things I will enjoy about my new apartment:

  • having a full bath instead of just a shower
  • having trees outside of my windows
  • keeping the place as tidy as I want with nobody else’s mess to deal with
  • being able to put my futon against a wall instead of in the middle of the room
  • a more “cozy” feel to the place
  • I will not be dependent on other’s to renew my lease next year and will hopefully not move until I leave Pittsburgh
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Super bummed

So last year I was tremendously happy with the apartment I found for my friend Kellen and I to share. I knew at the time that he would be applying to other schools for his PhD and that he would likely be going elsewhere this year, but I planned on staying here, finding another grad …

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The Shape of Summer Days

The shape of my summer days shall be: morning get up by 7 am (shift over time to 6:30 am) do NOT check email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. as the very first thing I do some kind of movement – at the very least stretching and a few yoga poses, but more often alternate between my …

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The names

Staff Sergeant Robert Bale’s victims:

The dead:
Mohamed Dawood son of Abdullah
Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma
Nazar Mohamed
Payendo
Robeena
Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed
Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid
Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed
Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Nabia daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Esmatullah daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Faizullah son of Mohamed Wazir
Essa Mohamed son of Mohamed Hussain
Akhtar Mohamed son of Murrad Ali

The wounded:
Haji Mohamed Naim son of Haji Sakhawat
Mohamed Sediq son of Mohamed Naim
Parween
Rafiullah
Zardana
Zulheja

Source: Al Jazeera