Parting Gift.

[alycat12]

Twenty minutes ago I woke up with a terrible hangover. Still clothed from the night before, I pulled myself out of bed to go to the bathroom and vomit/shower/detox. I tripped over an empty wine bottle and fell face first into a heap of dirty clothing. That's when I saw them. A pair of men's boxers laying on my floor. And that's when I remembered.

Comments

[atrueamazon]

sometimes good sex really cant quiet your moral judgement for long enough. too bad, eh? i like the part where you to tell him to fuck off IN arabic, no less.
how are you? since yu dont seem to update this lj enough, you might have to start writing me emails. after all you had time for war profiteering austin over here, so why not me?
oh and i'm looking to go to SOAS for grad school. theres a really good turkish and gender studies MA. how about you take a year abroad? trade up nyc for london?
what else what else. i've been suffering the dregs of being a feminist in a non feminist friendly world. its made me lose a relationship (which was a shit one, so no biggie) and a job opportunity. fuck, people are sensitive here. oh wait, thats what they said about me. sometimes its fucking tiring to be in a place where your thoughts and views are really seen as alien. makes me wonder who decides who has OCD and needs the meds. maybe them? maybe me?
anyway i'm ranting up a storm here. i'm going to geneva for xmas and new year, spending the new year probably in paris. hot, eh? my brother and i are going to keep the mother company.
my two very best buddies that i had met in istanbul my first year have moved back. well, west moved back a few weeks ago and aysu moves back in january. finally convinced them both that life was here after college (you're convinced of the same).
other than that, well i'm still in antalya, found the cute long haired rebelly too young for me boys bar, spend inordinate amounts of time taking pictures, playing with photoshop (if you have requests) and looking at grad schools online. nyu has an MA in journalism and near east studies too. i drooled then i got depressed... nyu, 3 references, 30,000$ a year, top 5th percentile, dunno about that one. and the deadline is nov.1st. thats in 3 days. (why do i always wait till the last minute?).
i decided to move out of istanbul come next september no matter what. (watch the no matter what turn into a mustafa i cant let go). either grad school or if that doesnt happen in 2006, paris or madrid. aysu and i want to see what its like to start from zero in another city. i hear madrid is great and they're always looking for english teachers. (study abroad in madrid, aly?)
anyway...
you take very good care of yourself and for fuck sake, stop wishing for a boyfriend. we dont like boyfriends and we are only reminded of this when we ge what we thought we wanted. let the man come to you. please. plus i'm sure gregg has hot nyu grads to hook you up with.
haydi kendine iyi bak, seni cok ozledim,

Selin

[alycat12]

SOAS! I've been in contact with a rep from soas, actually. While I adore my silly liberal arts school (it's more of a love/hate relationship), I'm playing with the idea of transfering to a school with a more established Near Eastern studies department. While I doubt I'll spend my year abroad at SOAS, I definitely think it's a great choice for grad school. Most likely I'll spend the year in Cairo (I think the AUC is the way to go), though that would entail me traveling every other month to quench my thirst for miniskirts and high heels. Our next reunion is already in the works.

I actually studied in Salamanca for a summer. Spanish should be an easy switch from French. A hell of a lot simpler than Turkce, anyways. Madrid is nice, but if you figure out a way to get to Barcelona, DO IT. By far one of the most amazing cities I've ever seen. And I need a legit excuse for going back. DOOO IT.

I'm trying to figure out where I'm going to spend the summer. Though the thought of taking a few classes at Columbia and getting crazy in the city sounds awfully tempting, I probably should get out of the country for a few months. There's an internship opportunity to do school/AIDS work with Save the Children in Uganda for 8 weeks. Is'allah I'll get it and spend part of the summer in Uganda and the rest making my way through the Middle East. In any case, as long as I'm on your side of the Atlantic this summer I'll be stopping in good ol' Turkiye.

Don't sell yourself short in terms of grad schools. Apply everywhere man...if I regret anything it's not applying to more schools that I was interested in (for fear of rejection). Overall, I think the decision to leave in September is a great choice. God only knows when you'll have a chance like this again. You've got a hell of a lot going for you so fucking milk it, man.

You're right about the LJ updates. There's not enough drama in my life to inspire regular posts, so starting up the e-mails is probably a wise decision. In the meantime, keep your posts coming...I get the jitters whenever I have a new entry to read. Oh Selin...

[alycat12]

Oh man, Austin had this apalling picture of him wedged in between one of Saddam's hands on the Hands of Victory Monument, mooning passerbyers. I was disgusted beyond belief. IF ONLY I had made a clever comment about him having a nice ass so he would have handed over that picture as well. I can't even begin to imagine the damage that could be done if the media got ahold of something like that. Honestly, it scares me.