Now before you start questioning the title, let me explain. ‘Kohinoor’ translates to mean ‘a mountain of light’ in Hindi and was once the largest diamond in the world. It originated in India until colonial masters seized it as a British crown jewel to present to Queen Victoria a.k.a ‘Empress of India’ in the late 17th century. Clearly, it has nothing to do with Konkana Sen Sharma or the Queen of our Arab mafia. But it has everything to do with the fact that you are such a gem of a child.
Lee I feel like a dead man walking, as I sit within the confinements of my apartment, albeit all it’s splendor, waiting for my damn EAD card. When I woke this morning it occurred to me that the possibility of my card arriving sometime next week is highly unlikely; it would be too Bollywood-ish and too just in the nick of time-ish! See! This is how it’s been these past two weeks in my head and heart, I keep thinking about what might happen and why this is all happening and plan for what I should do in case I lose the job, while cowering away from attempting tedious online job searches! Aaaah! Being a Nutcasimus Maximus is so much more stressful living alone.
So in your absence, my computer has become my new best friend. You know you both are similar in many ways. I wake up and the first thing I do is turn it on. And then it sings me Amr Diab’s ‘Allah’. And then it keeps me company and takes my mind off EAD stuff. And we watch garbage girl together…and so on…I am becoming so reliant on my computer I am so worried it’s going to stop working!
Last night was like every other night since I’ve moved to the city: shower, dinner, followed by watching old late night shows on the internet. It was all jim dandy until I decided to start messing with my nose ring and it suddenly just popped out! And I had to crawl around the floor, gently running my hand over the couch, blanket and carpet, trying to find the damn screw piece. And then when I had to put it back in my nose was bleeding and....it was all very saw three-esque. But I eventually managed to screw it back on, except I think I screwed it in too tight and now my left nostril feels like it has been clamped shut.
Well, hope your computer gets fixed real soon and I find a cheap functioning web cam. Miss you and love you.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl
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Hi,
I work with Digital Artist Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris. A few years ago they started a project called "We Feel Fine" (http://wefeelfine.org) Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been studying human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day.
We are currently working on a book about We Feel Fine to by published by Simon and Schuster. In assembling the book we have searched through millions of feelings captured by We Feel Fine in hopes of selecting what we believe to be the most powerful. One of these selected statements and images was authored by you.
I am contacting you today because we wondered it you might be willing to let us include your image in the book. You would be joining several thousand other strangers who are also participating with their words and pictures, taking part in a new kind of experiment in mass authorship.
Please let me know if you would be interested in participating. It would also be a huge help if you would include your URL and email address in your reply.
Thank you very much for your time,
Sincerely,
Hannah
hannah@wefeelfine.org
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We Feel Fine only collects and displays data that was already posted publicly on the World Wide Web. We Feel Fine never associates individual human names with the feelings it displays, though it always provides a link to the blog from which any displayed sentence or picture was collected. Also, bloggers may make a blog post invisible to the We Feel Fine crawlers you may request for an image to be taken down from the site by e-mailing someone@wefeelfine.org.
We Feel Fine is an independent project conceived and created by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar. It bears no affiliation to any company or organization.
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