Some thoughts from the past couple of weeks.. :)

- Sorry i haven't been able to blog for the past couple of weeks.. I have no idea why.. sure, i've been "busy studying" (u know when ur studying all day but are absolutely not productive?.. yup!)

- I officially am not cut out for "thobes" (the traditional Saudi dress, which most women wear during the entire month of Ramadan).. I don't get them.. I can never buy them, hence i don't own any for going out.. mind you, i don't think that they're ugly; i just think that they're not for me.. last year White Witch helped me pick out a simple bright-yellow thobe, and this year, I'm making a blue one at the taylor's (yes, Ramadan is almost half-over, and it's still not finished)..
i just don't get people's obsession with it.. and i don't get why they "have" to wear them. I "Warned" my family this year; i wore one, which Shimozi helped me choose (yup, I can't buy them alone either!) on the first family function we had, and i announced that they won't be seeing me again in one.. i mean, what's wrong with flowy skirts and cute tops??

- TOO MANY TV SHOWS! not that i watch any, except Tash-Ma Tash (a saudi comedy show), and Kill-Yom-Shi (Which is the Ramadan daily version of La yomall, a Lebanese comedy show that has a funny political side to it).. other than that, between the Syrians and Egyptians and Khaleejis, you have like a million TV shows which star the exact same people from last year, and i doubt that the content is much different.. thank God i don't waste my time on them

- I started going to the gym again, coz mom is doing her yearly thing and making all the Arabic sweets on earth, including all my favorites; Kunafa with cheese, znood el-sitt (literally; wrists of the lady), Kishk El-fo'ara (some sort of pudding), Killej (fried pastry filled with cream) and so much more.. so i figured that if i don't work out hard, i'll balloon up again (even though i try not to eat much, but even tasting this stuff is like 1000 cals or something..

- my knee is getting better.. i might not need an MRI after all.. yay!

- for the first time in my life, i'm NOT happy about having a vacation! It's not that i don't want to have a vacation ( i will spend most of it studying anyway).. It's just that the "sudden" realization that the students want/deserve a vacation came a bit too late i think! didn't anyone notice this from the beginning of the year?.. or is it more "fun" this way?.. what irritated me the most were the announcements all over the place that this "will not affect the educational process".. really?! how about u ask the college students who have scheduled lectures during that time, and who now have to somehow invent some time to have them in? or how about u ask the students who were supposed to have a major quiz on the last day before the vacation and now have to take an entire week early?.. add to this, my utter amusement when i realized that this extra vacation also includes all governmental facilities! (have you ever seen a place on earth where people take more than 2 weeks off for one of their holidays?) I guess the reason is that it's better off to send all these people home and save up of the water and electricity usage they cause at work, since they're just as un-productive anyway (coz it's "Ramadan"!)

- I did this test to see how much of a nerd I am.. turns out.. 40% .. who could've known??.. or it it obvious to everyone but me?!

P.S. blogspot decided to delete the last part of my post, but i re-wrote it to the best of my memory.. :) sorry if anyone got confused!