3481 : OMG SEPHORA!
all the money I have not spent on makeup this spring has just been spent. golly, I like Sephora.

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3481 : OMG SEPHORA!
all the money I have not spent on makeup this spring has just been spent. golly, I like Sephora.

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3480 - only took two and a half years
but I've finally ordered from a pharmacy and had it delivered!
this in a neighborhood with at least half a dozen pharmacies within a ten-minute radius - and that's ten minutes on foot, not by car.
I feel marvelously decadent.
...now all I need to do is have Costa Coffee delivered, haha.  that + pharmacy + McD's = Western "you had what delivered?!" trifecta...
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j'ai vraiment aimÊ ça, parce que c'est vrai pour moi aussi - pour avoir la vie "optimale," disons, ou au moins, optimale pour moi, je dois me trouver une ligne entre "les routines comme il faut" et "trop de routines, je veux mourir là ."  c'est vraiment un peu des deux, la routine et la libertÊ.
il faut que je me souvienne de ça lorsque ma vie devient trop ou pas assez routine...
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things that inevitably happen when I order Indian food...
âŚI spend as much on various forms of bread as I do on âactualâ dishes.
but seriously, it is IMPOSSIBLE to order too much naan. Â omnomnomnom!
(3478 - NAAN! Â and chickpeas and curry sauces and general deliciousness!)
naan update, 3478 bis:
I have eaten ALL OF THE NAAN. Â all of it. Â my tummy is a deeply contented, naan-filled place at the moment.
om freaking NOM, y'all. Â (om freaking naan?)
note to self, order more naan next time.
(I also ate all the chickpeas. Â there's still some really good vegetable biryani left over, though. Â and how is it that I found an Indian place I really like ten days before leaving Cairo? Â life's kinda silly sometimes.)

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is there anything worse than hearing your own recorded voice i think no
[3479, maybe? Â A liked my recording of Corcovado! Â SQUEE!!!]
things that inevitably happen when I order Indian food...
...I spend as much on various forms of bread as I do on "actual" dishes.
but seriously, it is IMPOSSIBLE to order too much naan. Â omnomnomnom!
(3478 - NAAN! Â and chickpeas and curry sauces and general deliciousness!)
Why arenât we doing this in all 50 states??
moving to Iowa
is there a way to petition for this to be a required class for graduating in all 50 states???
all over the world pls tbh
Lets do this, although EVERYONE should be required to take it.
Idk why they donât incorporate it in sex education
As a Wisconsinite who affectionately only refers to Iowans as idiots out walking around, with securing Barack Obama as the presidential nominee and this class, they arenât so bad.
Iâm thinking back to my junior year sex ed, and I donât remember anything specifically, but we must have had some basic âNo means noâ lessons. Perhaps not enough to satisfy contemporary âSexy thoughts is a rape precursor/Cross the street so women wonât be scared of you/Will-to-rape is so essentially male, identify genderqueer if you donât want to be assumed a rapist in preparationâ radical womenâs studies, but thus more effective for being less theoretical and contentious.
But I also canât imagine, for all our teenage depravity, that weâd have been into dick picks, sexting, and friends with benefits had the technology and opportunities existed. My transitional generation was too maked by post-AIDS sexual conservatism and monogamy, before HIV-fatigue set in and antiretrovirals reduced social anxiety about deadly sexually transmitted infection. Â
"must" you have had that discussion in sex ed? Â I would be astonished if you had.
due to an unfortunate streak of moving (five schools in five years, yay for being a university brat), I managed to get stuck sitting through sex ed four times in four school systems (in two different countries, two different states plus a province), including once in French. Â it was pretty comprehensive on the whole, especially the last round, in high school - there was the usual listing of body parts and weird, not-quite-human-looking diagrams and the standard "this is how babies happen" talk, but there were also STDs and STIs, all the major forms of birth control sans fear-mongering, and even surprisingly "liberal" things like "lube is a good idea" and "abortions are a thing that happen, this is how they work" (with accurate information) and a reasonable lack of judgment on the whole. Â there wasn't a ton about non-PIV and/or non-hetero sex, but they definitely got mentioned and there was a discussion and it was mostly ok. Â it was, in short, as accurate and comprehensive as you can probably expect American sex ed to be.
but there was definitely no discussion of consent. Â definitely no "no means no" speeches or anything along those lines. Â the (brief) discussion of rape was centered around things like knowing about and avoiding date rape drugs (watch your drink, go out/go home in groups, etc.) and being safe around men in "potentially unsafe" situations, things like carrying your keys to use as a weapon - aka putting the onus on the woman to not get raped, rather than on the man to not rape. Â throughout all the discussions that involved rape or sexual assault, rape was made to seem normal - normal that men rape, normal that women should feel unsafe, normal that you should have to watch your drink like a hawk and never walk home alone and yes, cross the street to avoid men, and so on. Â no one ever said anything like "you are never obligated to have sex with anyone, for any reason," let alone initiated actual discussions of consent.
you've seen that survey they did of high school students showing when they thought it was "expected" for a girl to have sex with a guy, right? Â if you haven't: Â http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/womensissues/whenisrapeok/ for a handful of studies, more links, etc.
I don't think teaching students to not rape is contentious, nor do I find it particularly radical. Â I don't think that teaching about informed consent is contentious, nor do I find it particularly radical. Â (note that radical â rare.) Â I do think the class that they mentioned in the photo should be mandatory for all students everywhere if it's even half as useful as the description would imply. Â and the studies in the link above make it clear that this kind of education is very necessary.
one last thing, and then I'll shut up: Â every time a woman is told not to get raped - whether that's by telling her to dress conservatively, or not go home alone, or not leave her drink, or avoid bars, or whatever else (all things we were told in sex ed) - you're actually telling her "make sure he rapes someone else, not you." Â you're still assuming that it will happen and normalizing its occurrence, rather than making it clear that there's never a reason for anyone to commit rape in the first place and that it's completely unacceptable and inexcusable. Â this is the message that we were given in sex ed. Â healthy, no?
so yes, I would be astonished if your sex ed class managed to be that ahead of its time. Â and if it was, good for you, but it was a rare, rare exception - the outlier, not the mean.
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4 am breezes off my balcony
are the best breezes off my balcony.
ok they're making me miss Řą a bit. Â fine. Â but even so - too gorgeous a night for anything but peace.
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3475 - my favorite part of Ramadan
may be the sohoor drum guys.

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once upon a time, there was a tumblog called "things I'm good at," or something like that. the basic premise was that people would submit sentences, anonymously, of things at which they were good. (I've no idea if this still exists, but at the time, it was pretty neat.) back in the day, I submitted one along the lines of "I am good at explaining the rules of species counterpoint." I think I've got a better one, though: "I am good at taking a pin from my hair and opening envelopes with it whilst looking like a classy badass." because I totally did that in the library today and some girl who was sitting near me was like "OMG! I didn't realize people actually did that! I thought it was just in old books! that looked so cool!" and I smiled and said thanks and hopefully wasn't too smug. srsly though I feel like such a bamf.
3473 - ridiculous event of the day
so there I was, walking along the corniche in Zamalek, having just cut through that parking lot at the end of 26 July, headed towards the Burg Um Kulsum, when a guy comes up to me.
"hi, excuse me, can I talk to you for a minute?"
well, on one hand - no, you may not. Â I'm walking and I have somewhere to be; I don't know you and I don't really feel like having a conversation. Â but on the other hand, you're not being sleazy, you're respecting my personal space, your words and tone are polite, you're smiling. Â your English sounds fluent and your accent is excellent, which taken together suggest some education (whether that was ten years in international schools or ten years of watching American movies, either way, you put some effort in and I respect that).
so I compromise: headphones come out and I slow down, turn towards him, but keep walking.
"yes?"
still smiling, still polite, still lots of space.
"it's ok, this isn't a robbery or anything. Â or harassment. Â I'm not a sexual harasser or anything. Â well, maybe sometimes I'm a sexual harasser, butâ"
"and that's my cue to stop talking and walk away. Â ciao!"
yes, I really did say ciao. Â where did that come from? Â I have no idea, but it did indeed emerge from my mouth.
and I turned, put my headphones back in, and walked away. Â and to his credit, he did not follow me. Â (yes, I checked - this is the advantage of walking by glass storefronts, you can keep an eye on this sort of thing. Â he turned and went back the other way.)
and the whole way home, I felt like laughing. Â I meanâdude! Â you were doing so well! Â if you admit to harassing women, well, points to you for owning up to it and it sounds like you realize that it's a bad thing, and hopefully you'll stop/have stopped, butâadmitting it to a woman that you're talking to on the street, in the first twenty seconds of your first conversation with her? Â eh da?
it was towards the end of the day, in Ramadan, in Cairo, in July. Â maybe this was a case of moderate dehydration muddling his brain. Â but even soâreally? Â I just find it mildly incredible that in one of the only cases of a guy talking to me on the street where I'd be inclined to respond, he shot himself in the foot so quickly. Â lol. Â it really is kind of impressive.
maalesh. Â better luck next time, dude.
Shout out to that one shirt thatâs fit you for like, 5 years no matter how much your body has changed
I even grew boobs and itâs like âwhatever, I got youâ.
3472
...I have a shirt from kindergarten that still fits.
how, you ask? Â I literally have absolutely no idea. Â (I mean, it was big on me in kindergarten, obviously. Â but even so. Â kindergarten was almost two decades ago now.)
but there it is. Â love that shirt.
from Rehearsal to Performance. The Sleeping Beauty.
3471 - is it just me, or does this look like a metronome?
âSometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.â Â
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3470, my queen

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She holds her hair up with only two chopsticks and a bobby pin. Think Atlas. Think shoulders. When your sadness starts to feast, she carries the light down from the mountain and hands it to you, tells you to set it on fire. Think Prometheus. Think savior. On Sunday, she steps out of the shower and you donât think youâve ever seen anything more beautiful than the way she walks towards you with a towel on her head, water clinging to her like there is nowhere else it would rather be. Think Aphrodite. Think sea foam.
Caitlyn Siehl, from Mythology (via heisenbergsays)
3469, lovely
Zuhair Murad Pre Fall 2014 Collection
3468 - beautiful