Posts for July, 2005

July 27, 2005

An actual, honest-to-goodness conversation

Ken: Have you ever met anyone who said they were going to college to get married? Because this girl I met yesterday, I asked her, so what are you going to focus on in law school, and she said, I’m looking for a husband.
Huda: Well, I’ve never met anyone who actually admitted to it, but [...]

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July 26, 2005

Liftoff!

How beautiful is this?
Discovery takes off from Kennedy Space Center
Growing up in the backyard of Johnson Space Center in Houston, I wanted to be an astronaut… until I realized my crippling fear of heights might be problematic. Then I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because if I couldn’t fly the shuttle, I was going [...]

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July 19, 2005

Sometimes the mundane is all you’ve got

The combination of the great gift show at the America’s Mart and three consecutive nights of Kenny Chesney concerts have resulted in traffic being hopelessly snarled at the exact hours that I might be leaving my office, which means I sometimes sit downtown for thirty minutes waiting for a charter bus to stop blocking all [...]

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July 14, 2005

Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji’oon

We are from Allah, and unto Him we return.
Or, in Biblical terms, the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
For our Augusta boys that we lost tonight: Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji’oon. May Allah (SWT) forgive you and have mercy upon you.
I don’t know what else to [...]

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July 11, 2005

“We are all collateral damage”

There will never be any real progress in ending this terror war, until we realize that we have all become collateral damage, unacceptable collateral damage. That being the case, there is no they or we in this affair. We are they and they are we. When a child in New York never sees his mother [...]

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July 7, 2005

London calling

Our prayers and thoughts are with you.

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July 5, 2005

News flash for our Republican leaders: The whole world is not like you

A few weeks ago, I saw this:

And today, there’s this:

Dear God in heaven, where do we even begin?

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July 3, 2005

Anniversary weekend

Happy anniversary to Dan and AM, Aisha and Kashif, Mukhlis and Megan.
Who knew the July 4 weekend was such a popular wedding date?

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