"Famous Last Words"

"It has all been very interesting." -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762 English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762)

I thought I'd start out today's post with a quote by a woman who I am writing my research paper on. In the early 1700's she accompanied her husband, Britain's Ambassador to Turkey, to Istanbul. She chronicled her journies and encounters in letters. I have to use her eyewitness testimony to talk about Ottoman architecture. And to think I chose this topic myself.

Sometimes, I think I am my own worse enemy.

The other night, Issame and I began to watch Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Now, I was raised Catholic and converted to Islam 3 years ago. I minored in religious studies in college as a part of the intellectual search for a new religion. (Issame helped to facilitate the spiritual). So I like to think that I have a "better than the average person's" understanding of other religions. It's just me. I like to know everything (a whole other issue). Issame is the opposite. He didn't understand why this wasn't the muslim version of Jesus' life. In the Muslim version, before Jesus dies, God switches in body with someone else's so he doesn't actually die on the cross. He asked so many questions while the movie was on-keep in mind, this was at about 2:30am, we were eating our "dinner" early--it was so annoying and I got frustrated that I had to pause the movie to give an impromptu religion class and then about 5 minutes after I turned the movie back on, he fell asleep. What a guy!

The people who live on my block are seriously confused and slightly deranged. One neighbor has his whole house decorated adorably for Halloween , about 5 house down another neighbor has a giant 5 ft. turkey balloon hanging off his balcony and the people across the street, have their air conditioner wrapped up like a Christmas present . I was so confused as I walked to the subway in the morning

Happy Hallo-Turkey-Kringle-Day!