I won't be leaving my desk this weekend lol. Maybe a walk each morning to Starbucks and back for coffee, or a quick library run to grab a book, but other than that I spend at least 10 hours a day writing, usually more when I'm working on a paper.

One more to go! I need to finish my research and brainstorming today so I can spend the weekend writing. I hate writing essays, sometimes I wonder if I'm in the wrong profession for feeling that way but it seems even my professors agree that writing is a difficult process.

Alpha Blondy;948273 wrote: i'm tempted to cut off my nails but i can't be bothered. i can't be bothered to do anything today. i overslept and i feel sick. I feel you Alpha, me too It's almost 2:30 and I haven't done anything productive yet, and I have so much to do. Oba you need to start running, you'd cover that distance in 30 minutes and get a better workout

Alright I just read about the Dyatlov Pass incident, I will NEVER sleep now.

Enjoy oba... it's 4:15am here so I should get to sleep. But I was reading scary stories earlier and now I'm worried the shadow people will get me, and I live alone so I'm spooked

SomaliPhilosopher;948226 wrote: ^^ "Heyylow" LOOL. Oba, The director has potential. his cinematography is applaudable. jamal cannot be used in future films. he should consider a new career. preferably one that doesn't involve his voice. as for the supporting actor aliyah. we could have used some pretext into the premise of her psychotic love... 6.5/10 Agreed. They also need better screenwriters because the storyline was boring and disjointed, and the dialogue wasn't great.

lmao it killed my attraction to him

Ohh that was a strange film but I loved the ending. Beautifully filmed. Jamal is so cute, except for his high pitched voice

Alright I'm watching!

Wadani;948211 wrote: In the north we call the reer xamar/banaadiri people xamar cad cad, because to us all people from Mogadishu are reer xamar, including the ethnic Somalis. Oh I've never heard that before. I thought you were saying you don't like light skinned girls and I was all :confused: because she's dark lol

Sorry SP... I break/lose my earbuds all the time oba hiloowlow;948206 wrote: Hey safferz inaar your allrite tho Waan ku gartay oba :mad:

So more passive and submissive oba? :mad: What do you mean by cad cad Wadani?

She sounds like a goat, oba.

What talent? lmao oba are we watching the same videos?

^^ guys are so weird, an average looking girl hiding her face through filters and lighting in most vids and you think she's hot lol SomaliPhilosopher;948187 wrote: It appears me and Safferz are having some issues. Perhaps we should speak in private in the less so populated Oba's Malayaacni Thread What ever happened to that thread?

RIP Safferz I'm DYING

Nope ku ma raabo I was clear about that :mad:

lmaoo oba who is that trick, she makes Somali sound like Chinese. I'm watching her other videos now and crying lmao

I don't want any of you SOLers, stop trying to claim me :mad:

lool SP didn't you just announce your marriage to an ONLF fighter earlier today? War nagatag

Wadani;948167 wrote: Lol Im here guys. Maxaa isku dhacayaa? Baryahan wanyu kala baadnee.

I don't know

SomaliPhilosopher;948162 wrote: Wadani is in town! He doesn't talk to us anymore

Not really... I'm more interested in the Somali region's incorporation (1897 and after) through to the mid-20th century with the rise of Somali nationalism across the Somali territories. I'm not sure sure how far I'll take it into the present, but I think 1991 is a good end point for my study because of what Somalia's collapse meant for the region, as well as the collapse of the Derg (and Amhara dominance) and the rise of the TPLF in Ethiopia.

I'm using my first summer there as more of a visibility trip... checking things out, identifying local and regional archives (and finding out what condition documents are in), improving my fluency in Somali since it isn't perfect (and getting Amharic practice when I can) and conducting preliminary fieldwork ie. talking to elders and other locals about the region's history, collecting poetry, that sort of thing. I'm hoping to write a dissertation that examines the tensions between Somali identites/nationalisms and Ethiopian state expansion and consolidation at the edges of its empire... so looking at the historical experiences of the Somali periphery to assess the paradoxical role of Ethiopia as both an empire and an independent African nation in the age of European colonialism and see the workings of Ethiopian state power and sovereignty. The real fieldwork is in the fourth and fifth years of the PhD, so right now I'm just looking to determine the feasibility of this as a dissertation topic and whether I have the source material to pull it off. I think I do