Today was the second time I was almost robbed in Enge. “Almost” because I am from New Orleans and the only way you are going to get my wallet is by pulling a knife or a gun on me. You will not get one of my personal items by deception, and if you do, well, [...]
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Since when did Enge get seedy?
Posted in Uncategorized on 29 May 2012 | 2 Comments »
will people stop trolling me just because they are trolling everyone else?
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 April 2012 | 3 Comments »
So yesterday i got caught up in not one, but TWO troll fests in two different languages (the Mona Eltahawy pow wow and the minarets in Switzerland BS) in in passage had my intelligence insulted, my Muslim card pulled but thankfully only got dropped the white privilege card once (dropped it myself on me for [...]
Because I don’t feel like writing a separate post for every point
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 April 2012 | Leave a Comment »
1. I can only recommend going gluten-free and dairy-free, even just in small doses and not all the time. I don’t completely exclude gluten and dairy from my diet (I drink a buttload of milk in my coffee in the morning and eat whatever I want out at lunch at work) but making conscious choices [...]
I’m taking the DALF!
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 March 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It only took me 17 years, but in June I may finally have some sort of certificate that says I speak French incha Allah. I’ve signed up for the Zurich Alliance Francaise’s prep class for the C1 exam. For those of you who don’t know what the DALF is, it is a language test covering [...]
Et tu, Asma?
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 March 2012 | 4 Comments »
(this is edited from an earlier version which was based on a mis-reading of an ambiguous sentence in one of the source texts. See, it can happen to me too!) Asma Uddin is a rockstar in the American Muslim community and someone I have always looked up to and respected. As someone who believes that [...]
I’m not interested
Posted in Uncategorized on 3 March 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What is up with people thinking any social network is good for picking up women? I consider myself pretty in the know about these things. I dig that the generation of digital natives have their own ideas about how to connect online. I dig that the culture is changing. Hell, I put my entire life [...]
I’m kind of grossed out by humanity right now
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
I kind of hate humans right now and am busy planning a move to Antarctica with Pablito. Last week on one of the forums I belong to, some n00b troll came on and started talking about how women have too many rights. As in ever since feminism, we’ve just become too uppity and privileged. Let [...]
I don’t have time any more for people who think I am fat or a bad person
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 January 2012 | 5 Comments »
As if I don’t already hate people and want to hide in dark cave with Pablito, I got lit into tonight. The two people I trustED more than anything in the world essentially have the same discourse: that I’m fat, out of control, can’t handle money, and apparently selfish. I only claim fat and out [...]
Almost got pickpocketed in the train
Posted in Uncategorized on 19 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today I was in the train going from Zurich to Lausanne and I fell asleep holding my purse with a death grip (New Orleans in me), but next to me in the aisle seat I had my lunch bag (only my bento and my phone charger). I woke up in between Fribourg and Lausanne to [...]
Some musings on kids and divorce in the Muslim community
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 January 2012 | 14 Comments »
Divorced Muslim women get treated like damaged goods. Divorced converts get treated worse than dogs. How many of us have stories from the masjid about how, because we are now outlet mall sloppy seconds we are only good in our masajid for being married off to the ex-con, drug addict/mental case, or the dude who [...]
