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Carmen's Web: Headaches and Bicycles
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Monday, September 24, 2007. I was plagued with a killer headache yesterday. It hit around noon and kept getting worse and worse as the minutes passed. It pounded behind my eyes. I couldn't sit, couldn't sleep, couldn't read, couldn't watch TV. All I did for five hours was lay on my couch waiting for iftar. I couldn't stand myself. The pain was so excruciating. I sat on the bathroom floor for about ten minutes, throwing up, crying, feeling sorry for myself. It's amazing how much like a kid you feel wh...
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Carmen's Web: Because we need a smile...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007. Because we need a smile. Thoughts shared by Carmen at 10:28 PM. Link to this post. 2 added their 2 cents worth! You can email me here. The Best Horoscopes Ever. My Own Archie Bunkers. Reaching Out for Familiarity.
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Carmen's Web: Benazir Bhutto
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Thursday, December 27, 2007. I met Benazir Bhutto when I was in grad school. She was a very powerful speaker and it was hard not to want to be part of her entourage. I asked her where she got the strength to deal with fear and she told me that convictions go a long way. I think she saw that I was asking this question to find answers for myself and so she added, "You have to stand out for the principles you believe in. If you believe in your principles, your strength will come". Link to this post.
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Carmen's Web: Sick days gone wild
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Friday, June 10, 2005. Sick days gone wild. I should eat some bread, nothing else. Susannah sent me home and told me not to come back if I were feeling sick. I was supposed to be teaching today, but thankfully Claire (in my group) is going to substitute for me. I'm not sure what it was exactly, but it must have been a 24 hour something because I'm feeling a little better now. Then again I haven't had anything to eat other than bread today.it's hard to get sick when you haven't eaten anything.
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Carmen's Web: Coming back (hopefully)
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Saturday, December 22, 2007. The past six months have been the most difficult, stressful, unbearable months of my life. I've been used to living a pretty tough life. Navigating through it has been unpleasant but I think I've managed well for the most part. When things got tough I'd be able to pull myself through by connecting to something pleasurable and so the bad times didn't seem so horrible. I haven't tasted joy in six months. Not even fleeting joy. Poor R. He bore this time with much dignity....
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Carmen's Web: Reaching Out for Familiarity
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Saturday, September 22, 2007. Reaching Out for Familiarity. If it would be permissible for him to stay with a woman even if she was just a friend, and 10 minutes chastising him for choosing to become an anesthesiologist rather than a surgeon. Fun times. Anywho, lonely Ramadan. I come home from work every day, watch whatever Netflix movie has arrived in the mail, killing the two hours till sunset. A couple of minutes before sunset I turn to the Arabic channel so I'd be able to hear the adan. They couldn't...
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Carmen's Web: Palestinian Hip Hop Live in NYC!
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Friday, May 09, 2008. Palestinian Hip Hop Live in NYC! Back in April I went to see Slingshot Hip Hop. A documentary that chronicles the explosion of Palestinian hip hop, at Lincoln Center. I had heard about it from my colleague whose friend worked with several of the volunteers who helped get the documentary ready in time for the Sundance Film Festival and was told that it was a must-see. Anyway, this post, for once, is not about me :). For those of you in NYC you can (MUST) go and see DAM. Xx-something ...
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Carmen's Web: Cabbie luv
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Step into Ahmed Ibrahim's cab on Valentine's Day and you could get a lot more than a ride from A to B ; you could also land a date. The self-proclaimed cupid cab driver has spent years driving around the city looking for New Yorkers with lonely hearts. He has swapped numbers between hundreds of couples, helped organize more than 70 real dates and at least 19 of his romances have lasted more than a year. Ibrahim knows all about the challenges people have finding love in the city.
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Carmen's Web: A (Very) Long Engagement
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Thursday, May 08, 2008. A (Very) Long Engagement. R and I just realized the other day that we've got less than a hundred days to our wedding. It might as well be a hundred years. How many pots and pans should I actually own? What about place setting? Who the hell knows about this shit? I don't know what I need in a kitchen! I have one pot, one pan, four forks and spoons, and a handful of cups. That's all I, as a person living by myself, really need. What does a family need? A long engagement has only exa...
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Carmen's Web: Empire State Eid!
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Thursday, October 11, 2007. The Empire State Building is going to be illuminated in green for the next three days to commemorate Eid. First time in history. Sweet gesture, really, in a city constantly preaching tolerance but still has people demonizing Arabs. Outside black professors' doors. So yeah.Eid tomorrow! Forget the negativities for now - HAPPY EID TO YOU ALL! Thoughts shared by Carmen at 8:43 PM. Link to this post. 38 added their 2 cents worth! You can email me here. The Best Horoscopes Ever.
