The other night bhai and I, both were in a lazy mood so we stuck to watching television. MBC 2 was showing this old teen flick produced by Drew Barrymore that came out when I was a teenager myself, hence the appeal of watching the movie again. It was like any other teen flick, only it made me reminisce about my school and college days.

Since I haven’t studied in an American school myself I don’t know how accurate the portrayal is of the high school archetypes, but to some extent, the presence of certain groups is true. For instance, there is always a group of pretty girls who remain pretty their whole lives. There are always jocks, nerds, teacher’s pets and there is always, always the ‘in-crowd’. However, I don’t think I quite qualified as anyone of these. I did receive my fair share of nick names though…the one that stood out the most was well.., the ugly duckling.

I guess I wasn’t that bad looking but in comparison, I was rather simple. In a flock of peacocks I really was the ugly duckling. I was talking to Ali afterwards and we started talking about what we were like in school. I wonder how much our present lives are affected by these generalizations and how much of our personalities have we retained in all these passing years.

Yesterday, Nubla and Hyder had invited Sanny, Saddy and I to Hi-Tea. Saddy had to be some place else so it was only Sanny and I. Hyder brought his friend and friend brought his sister. Never caught the friend’s name but his sister Khula was really nice. We discovered that we were classmates in M.A. English Lit. Class. Anyhoo, it was quite alright but I vastly prefer the Hi-Tea at pappasallis. Hyder and his friend complained about being hit by flowers on the Mehndi and we all know that I have a pretty strong arm;).

So, two days from now is Eid InshaAllah and I will be going to NK for the day. The day after Eid, I will be back at work and I have been asked to bring lunch for everyone. I really miss ammar around Eid time simply because he is a great cook. He and I always had a blast cooking on Eid.

Other than that…I have a crush on a dead guy.