STORIES, STORIES

I talked about indiscriminate reading before. But the 27th book I've read this year showed me another one of my patterns: Out of all the books I've read, I only liked 5 of them, marked as favorites. All of these 5 books are of the science fiction genre. If there's anything at all that I learned (so far) from this year's reading challenge , it's that at least I know what kind of books to go for next time I'm at a bookstore.

I will have you know that this hand, paltry and plain-looking though it may seem, has been the subject of many a famous professional photograph. That is all.

It's back to work for me.

Just the idea of the existence of not one, not two, but multiple universes, where other versions of yourself that took the other paths, made different decisions, are alive. Blows the mind. For more information, watch Fringe .

Patterns only work if looked at in the past tense. But enough of words that sound profound. Here are more of my patterns, because I'm running out of things to take pictures of. -- And this is my monkey Sebastian. I don't know how he got in my gym bag. 

Because we are more than our mistakes. Next.

Look what I had for lunch the other day: I repeat: a cheese sandwich and a banana. I have decided to become healthy and vegetarian, and to change my whole diet and lifestyle.  Hahaha I LIE SO MUCH. The sentence above holds no truth. Mere minutes after I ate this lunch, I ordered a pizza.  I have, however, just started monitoring my food and calorie-intake with MyFitnessPal , and it's awesome. I like to track just about anything I do, and this website just does everything for me. Weight loss is just as much psychological as it is physical, so if you're like me, you need to do all kinds of shit to trick yourself into losing weight and just generally being healthy. If you're in a weight-loss rut, and you take advice from an unhealthy blogger, go try this website!

I was invited to Mohammad's sister Mawadda's surprise birthday dinner at this place called L'Odeon. It's French for "stupid, crappy, fake French restaurant". Don't ever go there.  -- Muwadda is the one on the left.  And I'm the one on the far left, not in picture, being socially awkward. 

We live in patterns. Mine are stripes and checkered shirts, blog posts at 3am, and polar opposites. What are yours?