The Scientist

Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming in tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start.

Coldplay has been really kind to me. I feel like I've been doing a lot of science and not enough philosophy. I go to a liberal arts school...I should know better! But lately I've been trying to find too many answers to too many questions and I'm probing into things as small as atoms when I should be looking at the big picture. I've been catching myself doing that a lot.

I've been doing a lot of reflecting today. I'm 4 weeks into summer, 2 weeks away from Lebanon, and 2 weeks into a new start for me. I've been doing well. Life is good, endorphins after working out are just as great. I laughed a lot with my family today, and I can't remember a single joke that anyone made. Just silly things shared at the dinner table or in front of SNL.

Tickets are confirmed--I leave June 27th. I've been contacting microfinance banks all afternoon. Trying to see if I can fit an internship in between my GO Fellowship work.

I'm going to email my cousin from Dearborn. She's going to be a sophomore in high school and I haven't talked to her in forever. I'm so glad I'm not a Dearborn Arab. That's all I can say. What a shallow community they have there. I hope she's doing okay...there's crazy pressure at those high schools.

My ear is killing me right now. The neurologist thought it was a tumor last summer, and another one was convinced it was a tumor this summer. They ran some tests and decided I was safe, but it's still up in the air I guess. Extra strength Tylenol has been my best friend. And All The Above by Maino and T-Pain.

My mom has an elaborate plan to drive to the lake at 6 AM tomorrow with the entire family, some tennis shoes, and a picnic basket. Ugh, why can't I have all these cute plans in Sherman?!

Which reminds me, I'm missing my sorority sisters a lot. Thank goodness for Skype :) But really, I am so blessed to have all of them. Man, I can't believe I almost didn't pledge...My life would be completely different right now.

I made a list of things I need to do/buy before I go to Lebanon. I thought I could fit it all on one notecard...hahaha, that's really funny.

I'm reading a book called The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman. It's excellent. All this stuff about globalization that I had no idea about. I thought it would be dry, but it's a pretty fun read. Who thought in this day and age that the world was really getting flatter? Somebody of a different era might have been right...

Oh take me back to the start.

Peace,

Asil