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An Endless City

May 22, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

Above you will see a poor-quality snapshot taken with my webcam from my bedroom window. We are on the fourth floor, up above the buildings, in a little bit of openness that can be difficult…

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Sickness

May 21, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

Last night I overdid it. I was still feeling under the weather, but the dude who is staying with our housemates asked us out for nargile, and he is a pretty cool dude (evidenced that…

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Identity Capital

May 19, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

I watched a ted talk this morning by a psychologist who argued that the twenties are not a wasted decade, as so much hipster-leaning rhetoric would have you believe, but a time to actually plan…

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"That's What Makes You Beautiful."

May 18, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

I take great issue with this song. Well, not so much the song itself, but the fact that it is touted to young girls as a song that they should listen to in order to…

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Dread Update– About a month

May 16, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

See my dreads? Well, neither do I. I am pretty certain that my hair will not actually start knotting naturally until it is about should length, at least. My hair grows so slowly that this…

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The Best Worst Year Ever

May 15, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

I am quite thankful for this semester at Bogazici. At the beginning of the semester I remember being nearly terrified in all of my classes. I had a class that focused on Middle East Politics,…

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Fouccault’s Babies

May 14, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

I spend quite some time these days debating, researching, and just pondering pregnancy. Perhaps this is that always-feared biological clock that my friends warned me about. Turning 30 at the end of this summer, I…

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Sick Wanderings

May 13, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

Some days I love my life. Okay. Most days I love it. Today I was sick, and it should have made life close to unbearable, but it didn’t. Not even close. We woke up late this…

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A Perfect Day

May 11, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

I am really enjoying my new location. Last night I had to stay late at school, so I met my husband at the metro and we went down to Taksim together. Neither of us are…

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A Period Piece: Normalizing the flow

May 9, 2013July 2, 2015 by koji

Yesterday I got my period. The running, the environment, my changing body… for whatever reason I am only getting it once every five or six weeks these days, but it is still annoyingly incapacitating. Yesterday…

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