it must be tough being a jigsaw puzzle. countless hours are spent trying to piece it together, resulting in frustration, intrigue and resentment. yet once the picture is complete, it gets framed and hung on a wall, never to be played with again. a new puzzle is acquired and the cycle repeated. i’m glad some [...]
Category Archives: Insomnia
sometimes i feel like the Higgs boson*
November 7, 2010 – 3:25 pm
huston, we have a broblem. mostly me. gollum is secretly an eval existence torn between being smeagol and loyalty to frodo; and gollum, the bear of the ring… sometimes the call of the ring is far louder and its pull much stronger… do you even wonder why sam doesnt trust us… my preciousssss?! im so exhausted at [...]
inadequate – the one in which it was insufficient.
September 30, 2010 – 3:26 am
i was almost excited this morning because my BB said it was thursday – and sometime in my sleep i remember wishing my roomie a “happy thursday”. it’s thursday, it’s the end of the week, it’s the start of a weekend, of two days off, two days to myself, two days to conquer the world [...]
when no news is good news.
December 8, 2009 – 3:09 am
the last time there was a blast in lahore, i found out when i stepped into my office – with my boss asking if everything was ok back home. looking at my completely blank expression, he’d figured i hadnt heard the news, and asked me to call my folks and report back. i’d returned to [...]
Yes He Can… (Call of Duty 4)
November 14, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Since taking office, President Obama has shown a quiet predilection for drone warfare. He’s been vacuuming up targets. There are two programs in operation: a publicly acknowledged military one in Iraq and Afghanistan and a covert C.I.A. program targeting terror suspects in countries including Pakistan. As Jane Mayer notes… in The New Yorker, “The intelligence [...]
A tale of maybe three cities
August 5, 2009 – 3:43 am
This is going to be a two-part post. Unless I decide I want it in three parts, in which case it will be a two part trilogy.* ‘How come all your friends are from Karachi?’ It was an innocuous enough statement from artemis, but it shook me to the core of twenty eight years of [...]
Inside the Actor’s Studio questions
March 20, 2009 – 4:29 am
1) What is your favorite word? Ridiculousity. It’s my made up word. But, I’ve been know for, “Shameless!”,”I hope it dies of horse aids!” 2) What is your least favorite word? ugh. “c*nt” — i can’t stand that word. My first roommate presented me with a book called, “C*nt” and neither could I finish it, [...]
because i wont be living twice
March 12, 2009 – 6:57 am
sometimes i think i should compromise. and then i shake all such crazy thoughts out of my head. GB shaw did say ‘all progress depends on the unreasonable man’. and im certain he did not mean to be gender specific. even if he did, i can change that by being adamantly unreasonable. the quotation holds [...]
starchy references
January 29, 2009 – 2:34 am
if i were an engineer, i wouldve been a beautiful one. i may not have been very smart or anything, but i wouldve gotten by purely on the basis of my looks. and i have no clue why i would come up with something like that, but this morning i was thinking about hot-potato-routing when [...]
it’s my party
November 5, 2008 – 12:42 pm
So like, I finally found me some time today, to do something I been meaning to do since the weather turned – which was about when I came back from bakistan. Umm. Ive been meaning to do a number of things actually, but this was pretty high up on the list of priorities… to sit [...]
you should call me before-hand to let me know youll be calling
November 3, 2008 – 7:19 am
my phone wont ring for hours. my text messages are basically spam from banks telling me how much i should spend (because im a sucker for missionaries) or how much i can borrow at a “nominal rate of 1.1% only!” what they dont tell me is that the 1.1% is actually a monthly rate, which [...]
f*ck you youtube (why not?)
October 29, 2008 – 3:16 am
i was on a high this morning. the day was beautiful. i drove a rockingass car to work (mine). there was coldplay, and daughtry. the weather was a coooooooooool 27 degrees (that’s 80.6 for your F’ers). i had spent 20 minutes blow drying my hair (forgetting i was kinda getting late for work), and i [...]
on so many things and then some
October 24, 2008 – 4:26 pm
and i’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket but ive got to get a move on with my life it’s time to be a big girl now and big girls dont cry dont cry, dont cry, dont cry i hope you know, i hope you know this has nothing to do with [...]
the end of the world is today! (always wanted to say that)
October 22, 2008 – 5:24 am
im going to get a shirt that says: im not shy! just ANTISOCIAL.