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| sam & shayan in Barcelona |
needless to say it was a good day :)
PS went to Barcelona with Sam this weekend and it was great. Seriously, come visit. You have a free place to stay and I'm an excellent hostess.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
a confusing human interaction
On the bus home yesterday, after my private lesson, there was a very very old man sitting across the isle from me, next to him was his granddaughter. He kept on looking over at me, very very obviously, i was getting irritated, because i generally dont like being stared at. and i was quite tired from the day so i just decided to sleep. i crossed my left arm over my bag that was on my lap and rested my head in my propped-up-right hand, trying to hide as much of my face as possible from the man. i fell asleep for about 10 minutes, and woke up as the bus pulled into the bus station. as i collected myself, the old man reached across the isle and put his hand on my knee, not in a creepy way, in a genuinely concerned way, and asked me "are you ok? has something happened to you?" i didnt understand why he would ask me that. I knew i didnt look haggard. i was so shocked. i explained that i was "just tired, and nothing was wrong". he looked at me worriedly before looking away quickly to gather his things/his granddaughter, and to step out of his seat into the isle to exit, and before he left he stopped, looked at me, and said bye.
I've thought about this quite a bit, and I still can't make any sense of it. I just do not understand what he saw, or why he cared so much to worry about a complete stranger for 20 minutes, to actually reach across the isle and touch someone, or what he thought he could possibly do if there actually had been something wrong...
I've thought about this quite a bit, and I still can't make any sense of it. I just do not understand what he saw, or why he cared so much to worry about a complete stranger for 20 minutes, to actually reach across the isle and touch someone, or what he thought he could possibly do if there actually had been something wrong...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
words i like
Lewis Carroll is awesome.
Read Alice in wonderland and Through the looking glass back in high school (about 8 years ago already JEEZ!), some of my all time favorites, especially, since it's a story i've known since I was very little. Jabberwocky: had that poem memorized by the ripe ol' age of 6 in Mrs. Doodakian's 1st grade class. I love literary nonsense...which also explains why i revel in e.e. cummings' poetry...
...this all makes sense considering half of my genetic make up comes from my faja (obviously) he is so brilliantly creative (it just makes you want to scream [and no, that's not biased]) which is why I believe he has such a strong command of nonsense...growing up with his jokes and nonsense its no wonder i ended up a fan of literary nonsense and e.e. cummings' poetry.
I was looking for a quote by Mr. Carroll (actually that was his pen name his real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) the other day and I ended up finding a bunch more quotes some of which I had never read and some of which i simply didnt remember, probably because I was 16 when I read them, and they just didn't mean anything to my unfledged brain...I'm thinking i should go back and re-read some of his stuff... maybe you should too:
Lyrics:
Sweet summer night and I'm stripped to my sheets
Forehead is leaking, my AC squeaks and
A voice from the clock says, "You're not gonna get tired"
My bed is a pool and the walls are on fire
Soak my head in the sink for a while
Chills on my neck and it makes me smile but
My bones have to move and my skin's gotta breathe
You pick up the phone and I'm so relieved
You slide down your stairs to the heated street
And the sun has left us with slippery feet
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
And be here with you, we're goin'
It doesn't really matter, I'll go where you feel
Hunt for the breeze, get a midnight meal
I point in the windows, you point out the parks
Rip off your sleeves and I'll ditch my socks
We'll dance to the songs from the cars as they pass
Weave through the cardboard, smell that trash
Walking around in our summertime clothes,
Know where to go when our bodies go
And we'll greet the dawn in its morning blues (☜-the bold is my favorite part)
With purple yawns, you'll be sleeping soon
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
When the sun goes down, we'll go out again
Don't cool off, I like your warmth
Let's leave the sound of the heat for the sound of the rain
It's easy to sleep when it wets my brain
It covers my rest with a saccharine sheen
Kissing the wind through my window screen
The restlessness calls us, that I cannot hide
So much on my mind that it spills outside
Do you want to go stroll down the financial street?
Our clothes might get soaked, but the buildings sleep
And there's no one pushing for a place
As we end up at an easy pace
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
Just you, just you, just you...
Needless to say i'm craving summer...
...mmk off to the gym!
XX
Read Alice in wonderland and Through the looking glass back in high school (about 8 years ago already JEEZ!), some of my all time favorites, especially, since it's a story i've known since I was very little. Jabberwocky: had that poem memorized by the ripe ol' age of 6 in Mrs. Doodakian's 1st grade class. I love literary nonsense...which also explains why i revel in e.e. cummings' poetry...
...this all makes sense considering half of my genetic make up comes from my faja (obviously) he is so brilliantly creative (it just makes you want to scream [and no, that's not biased]) which is why I believe he has such a strong command of nonsense...growing up with his jokes and nonsense its no wonder i ended up a fan of literary nonsense and e.e. cummings' poetry.
I was looking for a quote by Mr. Carroll (actually that was his pen name his real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) the other day and I ended up finding a bunch more quotes some of which I had never read and some of which i simply didnt remember, probably because I was 16 when I read them, and they just didn't mean anything to my unfledged brain...I'm thinking i should go back and re-read some of his stuff... maybe you should too:
✏ Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
✏ His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
✏ I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
✏ Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
✏ “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get ✏ somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
✏ “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)”
✏ "You used to be much more...'muchier.' You've lost your 'muchness'."
and THEN:
I was listening to Animal Collective this morning and heard Summertime Clothes. This song makes me nostalgic for every summer I've ever had. Animal Collective, though they satisfy my brain and ears with their words and sounds, do not satisfy my eyes with their video. I think most people who aren't baked out of their minds might agree.
I was listening to Animal Collective this morning and heard Summertime Clothes. This song makes me nostalgic for every summer I've ever had. Animal Collective, though they satisfy my brain and ears with their words and sounds, do not satisfy my eyes with their video. I think most people who aren't baked out of their minds might agree.
Lyrics:
Sweet summer night and I'm stripped to my sheets
Forehead is leaking, my AC squeaks and
A voice from the clock says, "You're not gonna get tired"
My bed is a pool and the walls are on fire
Soak my head in the sink for a while
Chills on my neck and it makes me smile but
My bones have to move and my skin's gotta breathe
You pick up the phone and I'm so relieved
You slide down your stairs to the heated street
And the sun has left us with slippery feet
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
And be here with you, we're goin'
It doesn't really matter, I'll go where you feel
Hunt for the breeze, get a midnight meal
I point in the windows, you point out the parks
Rip off your sleeves and I'll ditch my socks
We'll dance to the songs from the cars as they pass
Weave through the cardboard, smell that trash
Walking around in our summertime clothes,
Know where to go when our bodies go
And we'll greet the dawn in its morning blues (☜-the bold is my favorite part)
With purple yawns, you'll be sleeping soon
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
When the sun goes down, we'll go out again
Don't cool off, I like your warmth
Let's leave the sound of the heat for the sound of the rain
It's easy to sleep when it wets my brain
It covers my rest with a saccharine sheen
Kissing the wind through my window screen
The restlessness calls us, that I cannot hide
So much on my mind that it spills outside
Do you want to go stroll down the financial street?
Our clothes might get soaked, but the buildings sleep
And there's no one pushing for a place
As we end up at an easy pace
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
Just you, just you, just you...
Needless to say i'm craving summer...
...mmk off to the gym!
XX
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
vivo
aunque:
he tenido dos dias "fatales":
vivo.
aunque:
estoy con la (puta) regla:
vivo,
y estoy agradecido que tengo la juventud y salud para tener la.
aunque:
a veces estoy confundida con tantos emociones conflictidos:
vivo.
lo se porque todavia puedo sentir.
aunque:
el dolor y daño me molestan:
vivo.
y doy gracia para tener la capaz de sentirlo, porque sin la amargura del dolor, la buena no es tan dulce.
aunque:
siempre hecho de menos a tantas lugares y personas:
vivo.
y me alegro que he vivido tanto que he conocido tantos lugares hermosas y que tengo tantas personas majas en mi vida.
¡que suerte tengo yo!
que vivo
estoy vivo
y que sigo a vivir
Morghe Sahar
i just wanted to share this song because I feel it's pretty relevant to
a lot of current international events that I know we've all been following
closely, and nervously. this song is so beautiful, I never tire from hearing it.
(The translation is pretty good too) ::
morgh’e sahar, naale sar kon - morning bird, mourn
morgh’e sahar, naale sar kon - morning bird, mourn
daagh’e ma ra taaze tar kon - further renew my pain
z’aah shararbar, een ghafas raa
barshekan o, zeer o zebar kon
- with a sigh that rains fire,
break this cage and overturn it
bolbol’e par-baste, ze kaaj’e ghafas daraa
naghme’ye azadi no’e bashar saraa
-flightless nightingale, from the pine cage sing humanity’s song of freedom
va’z nafas arseye een khake tudeh ra,
por sharar kon
-from the breath of the masses
fill the open earth with fire
zolm, zalem
jor-e sayyad.
-oppression, the oppressor
the hunter’s oppression
aasheeyan’am daade bar baad
- it has left my nest dwindling in the wind,
ey khoda, ey falak, ey tabee-at
shaam’e taareek’e maara, sahar kon
- god, universe, nature
make our dark evening into dawn
no-bahar ast
gol be bar ast
- it’s a new a spring
the flowers have bloomed
abr cheshmam
jale bar ast
- the clouds in my eyes
are filled with dew
een ghafas, chon delam, tang o taar ast
- this cage, like my heart, is suffocated and dark
sho’le fekan, dar ghafas, ey aah aatasheen
- oh fiery sigh! start a flame in this cage,
dast tabee’at, gol’e omr’e mara macheen
- nature’s hand, don’t cut short this flower of my life
janeb aashegh negah ey taaze-gol az een
-look at my dear young flower
beeshtar kon! beeshtar kon! beeshtar kon! -
make it more!
morgh’e beedel, sharh hejran!
mokhtasar kon! mokhtasar kon!
- you heartless bird
make it brief! make it brief;
the story of your separation
Monday, February 14, 2011
Birthday 24.0
It's officially been a week since I've returned from london :( & :)
It was an incredible trip.
If you want the short version: it was truly a celebration of life.
for more details, continue: I cant even believe it happened really. it was like a dream.
I arrived thursday day, and met up with Soheil at his giant corporate office, and he came out wearing a suit, he looked so good, and serious, and...corporate, and like an adult!! He treated me to lunch at his favorite spot at Leadenhall Market. It was beautiful. I felt like I was playing dress up with Soheil, when I'm with him a part of me can't help but revert to being 7 or 8 years old. I was seeing it from 3rd person perspective: a traveling woman and a business man sit at a table enjoying lunch in Leadenhall market...IT'S SHAYAN AND SOHEIL WHAT ARE THEY DOING?! they should be killing soosk (cockroaches) in Pappari's (my grandma's) yard and then tying a sheet from the stair rails and swinging on it like monkeys, before watching an emotional episode of footbalista... absolutely surreal. I can't believe we've grown up...
then I went back to soheils house in clapham south and took a nap until he came home from work that evening. we went around victoria station and I had nachos for the first time in 5 months at a pub! Carolina arrived about an hour later and we picked her up from victoria station, hung out in some spots around there then headed home. this doesnt sound super exciting, but it was absolutely lovely. I've got my cousin sitting across from me, an incredible friend sitting next to me, my aunts and cousins calling on the phone...eating nachos... i just felt like i could float away i was so happy.
the next day I skyped with Sogol, Pappari, Pedarbozorg, Mahmoud, Khale Taraneh, even Khanoom Rezvani! Khale Taraneh had made cheese cake in my honor, and put a candle on it and i "blew it out" over skype. It was one of the happiest birthday moments of my life. I could just feel so much love shooting around between everyone.
Carolina spoke french with Pedarbozorg, he got really excited. it was very cute. and I also introduced her to Sogol because Carolina is interested in cinema/theatre/directing/iran and so is Sogol, my cousin. possible future collaboration? Hopefully!
that day we just walked around a lot, Elena arrived from Spain at midday, and we met up with her and went to borough market. it was VERY cool, it was sort of sprawling underneath highways...and it wasnt nasty, the way one would imagine the underneaths of highways to be it was really nice. we ate a million things. I was especially excited about the thai food (green curry). i hadn't eaten it for probably 6 months. As a person who ate it 2 times a week back in college, i never thought i would live to see a day where i hadn't even smelled it for 6 months. it was glorious.
Soheil kept on talking about tapas bars and spanish food...and I was so confused because, spanish food isn't really THAT good...but tapas are such a novelty everywhere in the world. Well, when you make a gorgeous gourmet tapas dish, yes, i can see how that would be exotic and exciting...but the tapas you get at bars, free with a caña in Spain, not so much. but i mean youre drunk half the time youre eating them anyway so its still good. Anyway, the last thing i wanted was spanish food. london IS SO METROPOLITAN AND COSMOPOLITAN i had completey forgotten! it reminded me of san francisco. and made me re-realize how homogenous madrid is. I love Madrid, I chose it because it IS homogenous and I wanted a very Spanish experience, if i wanted cosmopolitan I would have gone to barcelona. but every now and then, i think its fine to run away to London for some really good Indian or Thai food...and to play with my cousins.
I feel strangely at home in London, maybe it's because I have been traveling there since I was a kid and have old old memories there, maybe its because I have so much family and so many friends there. I know I have a home in London, I know I could stay with soheil, or hannah, or Asal or in Ame afsaneh´s house or...or..or...etc etc. I have a spot(/spots) in London, and that as cliché as it is, knowing it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. I LOVE LONDON. i want to live there for a while...lets see where life will take me.
that night, I met up with Asal and Co. One of her friends was having a goodbye party so we joined forces and had a great party at Barrio Centro in Soho. Hannah and her boyfriend Simon also came, and it was just a great night...I have to admit at one point i was cheers-ing with 3 drinks in my hand. i only have 2 hands, for the record.
{side note: i have severely cut back on drinking. since the end of college/being in Spain, i noticed i was just consuming alcohol for NO reason sometimes. i mean, it didnt even taste good half the time. like the gross mahous beer they drink in madrid...i love beer, dont get me wrong, oregon taught me well, but MAHOUS?! no thank you. so, anyway, i feel much better having decreased the alcohol consumption in my life by like 80% and this was just a celebratory birthday weekend, so mommy dont worry.}
the next day we frolicked around london some more, We went to covent garden, I saw khale Katy and Sina who came up from Poole, I spoke on the phone with Ameh Afsaneh, Asal took me to Portobello market and bought me a gift on behalf of Ameh Afsaneh (her mom) it was very fun. oh ya hannah came to portobello with me too. THEN later that night we had a 20 person reservation at an italian restaurant called luna rossa it was SO DELICIOUS we had all you could eat pizza (but REALLY GOOD PIZZA) and it was just so fun, i got a bunch of presents which i wasnt expecting at ALL, i was just so delighted to be there and that people came out to dinner that i couldnt believe i got gifts as WELL!! it was like having 100 cherries on top! then we all went to westbourne studios where Ramy had put us on the guest list. It is an art community, where designers can rent out studios (gorillaz used to record music there) and there's this great shared/common space where during the day i'm sure is where people take breaks and have lunch, but at nights on weekends it gets transformed into a club and it was SO. MUCH. FUN. amazing music. favorite song was a better version of this GEM. i felt like i had actually gone to heaven when they played this song. it was one of those moments where you just want to dance forever and you are totally aware of how awesome you feel and you dont ever want that moment to end EVER. but alas it was fleeting. such is the physics of time.
the next day I hung out with sina some more who is such a kick ass guy...i adore him. he has such cool style, and is FUNNY and so fun to talk to. Baby cousin´s becoming a man! (no facial hair yet though, so hes still kind of a baby...to me.) visited hannah lawrence in her very grown-up and cool flat in clapham north she shares with her boyfriend, and then had a Syrian dinner with Asal and Simon (her boyf) back at their place in shepards bush. I left early, the next morning...
recap: great food, great people, great health, great location. couldnt ask for more.
I cant say it enough... the feeling i had, i just felt so full of so much love, with so many friends and family around...i'm so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life, all over the world who are so kind and generous and FUN awesome people.
I guess the reason why it took me so long to finally make this post was because, I always get a little depressed when I'm thrown in the midst of so much love and fun and awesomeness and then suddenly jerked back to reality, where, unfortunately, i dont have relatives and family in my daily life. and it always just feels really empty when i have to leave family. Maybe I should be used to this by now, I HAVE been experiencing it since i was A SINGLE YEAR OLD with my first trip to iran...
oh this is the theme song of the london trip Alex Clare-up all night
so, i'm back in spain, and I finally accepted that reality when i went grocery shopping. a couple days ago. I couldnt kid myself anymore. it was a "Toto, we're back in kansas" moment as i was being body slammed going down the ham isle desperately trying to find tahine, which no one knew what it was. (They're not that far from morocco how do they not know? )
Honestly though, as much as i can get irritated with certain spain-isms I am very glad to be back, Madrid has become one of my homes. and really, as I walk down paseo de la florida and catch a glimpse of the palacio, or as i meet up with friends in malasaña and go dancing at tupperware, there are hearts shooting out of my eyes. I'm so lucky to be here, I'm excited every day that I am living my dream. I love my job, my babies, my friends, my proximity to so many cool places. and I am just having the time of my life!
It was an incredible trip.
If you want the short version: it was truly a celebration of life.
for more details, continue: I cant even believe it happened really. it was like a dream.
I arrived thursday day, and met up with Soheil at his giant corporate office, and he came out wearing a suit, he looked so good, and serious, and...corporate, and like an adult!! He treated me to lunch at his favorite spot at Leadenhall Market. It was beautiful. I felt like I was playing dress up with Soheil, when I'm with him a part of me can't help but revert to being 7 or 8 years old. I was seeing it from 3rd person perspective: a traveling woman and a business man sit at a table enjoying lunch in Leadenhall market...IT'S SHAYAN AND SOHEIL WHAT ARE THEY DOING?! they should be killing soosk (cockroaches) in Pappari's (my grandma's) yard and then tying a sheet from the stair rails and swinging on it like monkeys, before watching an emotional episode of footbalista... absolutely surreal. I can't believe we've grown up...
then I went back to soheils house in clapham south and took a nap until he came home from work that evening. we went around victoria station and I had nachos for the first time in 5 months at a pub! Carolina arrived about an hour later and we picked her up from victoria station, hung out in some spots around there then headed home. this doesnt sound super exciting, but it was absolutely lovely. I've got my cousin sitting across from me, an incredible friend sitting next to me, my aunts and cousins calling on the phone...eating nachos... i just felt like i could float away i was so happy.
the next day I skyped with Sogol, Pappari, Pedarbozorg, Mahmoud, Khale Taraneh, even Khanoom Rezvani! Khale Taraneh had made cheese cake in my honor, and put a candle on it and i "blew it out" over skype. It was one of the happiest birthday moments of my life. I could just feel so much love shooting around between everyone.
Carolina spoke french with Pedarbozorg, he got really excited. it was very cute. and I also introduced her to Sogol because Carolina is interested in cinema/theatre/directing/iran and so is Sogol, my cousin. possible future collaboration? Hopefully!
that day we just walked around a lot, Elena arrived from Spain at midday, and we met up with her and went to borough market. it was VERY cool, it was sort of sprawling underneath highways...and it wasnt nasty, the way one would imagine the underneaths of highways to be it was really nice. we ate a million things. I was especially excited about the thai food (green curry). i hadn't eaten it for probably 6 months. As a person who ate it 2 times a week back in college, i never thought i would live to see a day where i hadn't even smelled it for 6 months. it was glorious.
Soheil kept on talking about tapas bars and spanish food...and I was so confused because, spanish food isn't really THAT good...but tapas are such a novelty everywhere in the world. Well, when you make a gorgeous gourmet tapas dish, yes, i can see how that would be exotic and exciting...but the tapas you get at bars, free with a caña in Spain, not so much. but i mean youre drunk half the time youre eating them anyway so its still good. Anyway, the last thing i wanted was spanish food. london IS SO METROPOLITAN AND COSMOPOLITAN i had completey forgotten! it reminded me of san francisco. and made me re-realize how homogenous madrid is. I love Madrid, I chose it because it IS homogenous and I wanted a very Spanish experience, if i wanted cosmopolitan I would have gone to barcelona. but every now and then, i think its fine to run away to London for some really good Indian or Thai food...and to play with my cousins.
I feel strangely at home in London, maybe it's because I have been traveling there since I was a kid and have old old memories there, maybe its because I have so much family and so many friends there. I know I have a home in London, I know I could stay with soheil, or hannah, or Asal or in Ame afsaneh´s house or...or..or...etc etc. I have a spot(/spots) in London, and that as cliché as it is, knowing it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. I LOVE LONDON. i want to live there for a while...lets see where life will take me.
that night, I met up with Asal and Co. One of her friends was having a goodbye party so we joined forces and had a great party at Barrio Centro in Soho. Hannah and her boyfriend Simon also came, and it was just a great night...I have to admit at one point i was cheers-ing with 3 drinks in my hand. i only have 2 hands, for the record.
{side note: i have severely cut back on drinking. since the end of college/being in Spain, i noticed i was just consuming alcohol for NO reason sometimes. i mean, it didnt even taste good half the time. like the gross mahous beer they drink in madrid...i love beer, dont get me wrong, oregon taught me well, but MAHOUS?! no thank you. so, anyway, i feel much better having decreased the alcohol consumption in my life by like 80% and this was just a celebratory birthday weekend, so mommy dont worry.}
the next day we frolicked around london some more, We went to covent garden, I saw khale Katy and Sina who came up from Poole, I spoke on the phone with Ameh Afsaneh, Asal took me to Portobello market and bought me a gift on behalf of Ameh Afsaneh (her mom) it was very fun. oh ya hannah came to portobello with me too. THEN later that night we had a 20 person reservation at an italian restaurant called luna rossa it was SO DELICIOUS we had all you could eat pizza (but REALLY GOOD PIZZA) and it was just so fun, i got a bunch of presents which i wasnt expecting at ALL, i was just so delighted to be there and that people came out to dinner that i couldnt believe i got gifts as WELL!! it was like having 100 cherries on top! then we all went to westbourne studios where Ramy had put us on the guest list. It is an art community, where designers can rent out studios (gorillaz used to record music there) and there's this great shared/common space where during the day i'm sure is where people take breaks and have lunch, but at nights on weekends it gets transformed into a club and it was SO. MUCH. FUN. amazing music. favorite song was a better version of this GEM. i felt like i had actually gone to heaven when they played this song. it was one of those moments where you just want to dance forever and you are totally aware of how awesome you feel and you dont ever want that moment to end EVER. but alas it was fleeting. such is the physics of time.
the next day I hung out with sina some more who is such a kick ass guy...i adore him. he has such cool style, and is FUNNY and so fun to talk to. Baby cousin´s becoming a man! (no facial hair yet though, so hes still kind of a baby...to me.) visited hannah lawrence in her very grown-up and cool flat in clapham north she shares with her boyfriend, and then had a Syrian dinner with Asal and Simon (her boyf) back at their place in shepards bush. I left early, the next morning...
recap: great food, great people, great health, great location. couldnt ask for more.
I cant say it enough... the feeling i had, i just felt so full of so much love, with so many friends and family around...i'm so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life, all over the world who are so kind and generous and FUN awesome people.
I guess the reason why it took me so long to finally make this post was because, I always get a little depressed when I'm thrown in the midst of so much love and fun and awesomeness and then suddenly jerked back to reality, where, unfortunately, i dont have relatives and family in my daily life. and it always just feels really empty when i have to leave family. Maybe I should be used to this by now, I HAVE been experiencing it since i was A SINGLE YEAR OLD with my first trip to iran...
oh this is the theme song of the london trip Alex Clare-up all night
so, i'm back in spain, and I finally accepted that reality when i went grocery shopping. a couple days ago. I couldnt kid myself anymore. it was a "Toto, we're back in kansas" moment as i was being body slammed going down the ham isle desperately trying to find tahine, which no one knew what it was. (They're not that far from morocco how do they not know? )
Honestly though, as much as i can get irritated with certain spain-isms I am very glad to be back, Madrid has become one of my homes. and really, as I walk down paseo de la florida and catch a glimpse of the palacio, or as i meet up with friends in malasaña and go dancing at tupperware, there are hearts shooting out of my eyes. I'm so lucky to be here, I'm excited every day that I am living my dream. I love my job, my babies, my friends, my proximity to so many cool places. and I am just having the time of my life!
i love you all
thank you thank you thank you for everything
thank you thank you thank you for everything
XXXX
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
24!
 |
| haha! |
OFF TO LONDON to celebrate my birthday with cousins and friends! this is the 2nd time I have ever celebrated a birthday with a relative (not including mom, daddio, and sister). the first was this past november for asal's birthday in France, and this is the first time i ever get to celebrate MY birthday with relatives!!!!
i'm besides myself with excitement!
!!!!COUSINS!!!!
maybe one day i will be lucky enough to have friends, family, and relatives all present for a birthday. {Keon, jaat yek alame khaalie, khahar!}
maybe one day i will be lucky enough to have friends, family, and relatives all present for a birthday. {Keon, jaat yek alame khaalie, khahar!}
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