Thursday, June 17, 2004
today started out as the shittiest, grumpiest, surliest morning there ever was. broker than a flea on a raggedy kitten, expression scarier than medusa, hands shoved deep inside my olive cargoes, the only thing cheerful about me was my cherry-red t-shirt.the minute i got to campus i was working, after an uninspiring class i wandered about listlessly with ahmed, bless him. accidentally clocked hassan in the jaw with the diamonds i've been wearing of late while looking around in the dopehr ki dhoop for a car. skipped a little after dunking myself in the blessed cool of the SS wing, where i had protracted conversations on communism in China with Hasan K and Taimur R, both of which are brilliant, brilliant men. such a treat. plus met a friend after years,who gaped profusely. cue amused internal grin. poor soul remembered the braces, mad hair and dreadful uniform, as opposed to the funky chashma, wispy messy bun and cute little t-shirt of today.
went to a sadly slightly boring class alone, missed ayesha. zain pulled my hair and showed me ‘hasan in cinemascope! hahahaha!’ (he’s been taping lectures). wrote notes and dozed. sitting in a corner near the back of a rather large auditorium makes you feel like you’re on the periphery of the world. left class grumpy again. then met sydra my jaan, who shrieked 'miiiiiineeee!' across the PDC and almost fell out of her chair doing an elaborate swingy round-round wave. grumpies vanish in instant. then she vanishes as she is wont to do and huma calls! i speak to her for the firstest time before heading up to the lab to kill some time. and lo and behold, munkey-man has blue mooned my inbox. arrey wah! then huma calls again- ali's cooked up a social plan. three minutes (literally.) after i get home, the doorbell rings and i meet the humster for the firstest time! yeaay!
went for a walk in the sweetest evening hawa ever with amma, feeling beautifully energized and pleased. missed goldie; she and i walked about a lot in this kind of weather. then i find out that meesha's sister hira got engaged last night, is getting married in two weeks and is leaving for chicago, which is wonderful news (visions of ghararas instantly floating about in my head), albeit surprising and a little scary. but good news all the same. cue dholkis and spangly saris.
what a rollercoaster kind of day...and now that i think of it, so many adventures!
Mina at 9:23 PM
