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Break the Chain
As things have been getting busier toward the end of the semester, I have been thinking about writing. About how it was always something I enjoyed doing on my own and for classes. And how when I...
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Skinny Love
hot chocolate = stamina Lately, the tone of my blog has shifted into more of a melancholy, angsty one. My blog is a reflection of how I feel, and I don’t think that sugar coating everything does much...
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20-40-60
Music will set you free…but will likely damage your eardrums in the process. I have always been a sensitive person. Everyone sees things through their own perspective, and I try to keep that in mind...
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Perspective
Exactly why I need to be kept away from drug stores. After a relaxing weekend of catching up with season 2 of Revenge (OMG), I was not-so-gently reminded of my workload for the next couple of weeks....
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Orinoco Flow
Taking nautical to a whole new level. Before the start of the summer semester, I had promised myself to try new things – like taking a pottery class or going sightseeing. The time has come, but I...
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A Bucket List for Mondays
1. Fail to eat green things to compensate for shoving your face with weekend food. Vegetables are hard to come by these days. 2. Stop and smell the dying, non-existent roses. 3. Glare at strangers. It...
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It’s a Girl
When I was a kid, I was a real tomboy. I loved playing outside in the dirt with my brother. As teenager, I didn’t even know what concealer was, while the other girls in class would feverishly rub...
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The Iron Grip of Materialism
Graffiti in Beirut, Lebanon. When I got back from my trip to Uganda, I thought I would never take running water for granted again. I thought I would stop wanting clothes and makeup I don’t really...
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Le Sigh
I was slightly skeptical, but the pumpkin spice frappuccino is actually pretty good. I have made a discovery: Things really can be achieved even if you’re not stressed. I know that around half the...
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hashtagGradLife
Grad school is the kind of institution that you pay a lot of money for to be depressed, anxious, and jobless. The change in your psychological and emotional state happens slowly and then, before you...
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Hollydays
My cousin’s adorable hand made name cards at our family’s Christmas Eve dinner. Just a few days after coming to visit Lebanon from DC, a bomb went off in Beirut that killed and wounded dozens of...
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pms
It’s Valentine’s Day. I have never been phased by it, but this year, it just so happens that I’m PMSing on The Day of Shoving Romance in Other Peoples’ Faces. So those obnoxious piles of flowers at...
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