Ramming Speed!

BSD

The essays are finished and one midterm is down! now only... five more midterms and... 3 more essays in the next two weeks! on the upside i am now the narrator in the Marxist play "The Measures Taken" by Bertolt Brecht. Pretty Exciting if i do say so myself! I believe i promised someone some Moorish Poetry, so here goes :

Verses to My Daughters

With jocund heart and cheerful brow
I used to hail the festal morn---
How must Mohammed greet it now?---
A prisoner helpless and forlorn.

While these dear maids in beauty's bloom,
With want opprest, with rags o'erspread,
By sordid labors at the loom
Must earn a poor, precarious bread.
Those feet that never touched the ground,
Till musk or camphor strewed the way,
Now bare and swoll'n with many a wound,
Must struggle through the miry clay.

Those radiant cheeks are veiled in woe,
A shower descends from every eye,
And not a starting tear can flow,
That wakes not an attending sigh.
Fortune, that whilom owned my sway,
And bowed obsequious to my nod,
Now sees me destined to obey,
And bend beneath oppression's rod.

Ye mortals with success elate,
Who bask in hope's delusive beam,
Attentive view Mohammed's fate,
And own that bliss is but a dream.

---Prince Mohammed Ben Abad

Hopefully this week i should also be obtaining a list of journals and papers to submit my essays to so i can start getting published in an academic setting. And as for the best part of my week, i finally got to talk to penelope after Rosh Hashannah and i have never so longed to talk to someone in my whole life. There is no better way to begin the new year, and may it be a blessed one for everybody!

P.S. i think everyone should know that the nuclear pact between the U.S. and India passed this week, so now the us will be shipping nuclear materials to India, with no promise that they will not be used to create bombs. also that the U.N. be allowed to inspect some (repeat Some) of they're nuclear facilities. I would suggest see Kashmir now if you ever intend to, it may not be much to look at not long from now. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/10/20081021212400686.html