and the cold stars shiver in the distance

laura and i were walking from humanities after french, the other day, she telling of the ridiculous amount of money needed to pay for something-or-other. reply: “’sacrifice enough’, sartre would say, ‘and you can achieve anything.’ …though hah maybe that is liberal ideology.”
but a few seconds later, as we continued through HUB toward the buses: [...]

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watch by the fire

adil: (points to sign on MSA office door set to “sister praying”)
z: (opens door anyways, to find an empty room)
adil: why do they /do/ that!
adil: it’s a conspiracy by the sisters. i will not stand for it! (sits down)
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z: (sees a water bottle on the floor) …why do we have random water bottles on the [...]

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what i have learned

that one cannot find silence in motion.

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in flanders fields poppies grow

i told shelby last night, how they set up the system such that at the point you are pushed to blunt apathy they grant you two extra days of holiday so that you might wheeze on for another month – this long weekend comes just when i’d told people i was ready to quit school [...]

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amir sulaiman broad daylight tour

after the concert last night, teardown, pizza with amir, driving around, searching with taka and rooq for an open coffeeplace, etc, got home by 1.30. as an event which was the first of its kind in edmonton’s muslim community, something maybe paving the way for actual local creative expression, i think it went stupendously. so.
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fathima: [...]

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calendar.

nov09- workshop by amir sulaiman on the art of rhyme, the function of poetry, etc. 7.30pm in education north KIVA, 2-103 . 10$. by registration only – farooq33@gmail.com to get in.
nov10 – amir sulaiman, spoken word poet, activist, teacher, and rapper in concert with dj belikemuhammad – advance tickets 15$ from www.bdtour.ca ; 20$ [...]

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?: spousal abuse (=) the problem of evil

the paper due tuesday is on the problem of evil, different ways of dealing with it, how serious a problem it is for a theist, and so on (meaning this is the range of possible questions and i haven’t decided what i’m saying yet).
on wednesday i got a bunch of books from rutherford on the [...]

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taking a break from knights of faith and mutant censors

bright moon, fresh snow, cold newly struck: a night perfect for skiing.
today i bought four books for cheap.
> the early kabbalah
> sacred narratives: readings in the theory of myth
> introduction to feminist political philosophy
> figured worlds: ontological obstacles in intercultural relations
read this before french, it made me smile throughout. & it ties into primitivist europe [...]

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usual conglomerate.

> teach-in went alright, those days ago. a number of pro-war soldiers showed up, though, and so it became not an educative forum but a heated battlematch. two of the speakers on youtube: dr. saleem qureshi, prof. emeritus at the UofA dept. de polisci; dr. tony simmons, ass. prof. at athabascaU’s centre for global & [...]

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alone with the Alone, among the many

essay on sartre, essay on the problem of evil, french test & compo, econ midterm, discussion on edward said, and editing two more chapitres of ‘dawnamakinah’ – all in the next week. have not begun any of them.
how alone we are, in the final instance.

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