The Burning Girl!

...this is who I want to be: the Burning Girl, not burdened by the fetish of all those things I have created, and had to leave behind. I am a nomad, I have no history to turn back to...

Tilsim was my cat, her name means 'magic'. I still miss her. She was all black with penetrating green eyes, a real Istanbul lady. I promised I will give her name to my coffee shop. So this is it.

I read: Sirens of Titan, Remembering Jack, A Man Without a Country, Player Piano
I am reading: Hemingway: Complete Short Stories, Slaughterhouse Five, The Second Sex
The last three movies I watched: Man From Earth, Fur, Ocean 13
What I have done this year that I haven't done before: Be a mom
A day absolutely ordinaire: Latte at a coffee shop and daily news from the Washington Post (hm this hasn't changed :))
Wbat is in: Buying designer outfits at a discount

Who: Leman
What I do from dusk till dawn: Be a mom
My pet ghost: Selmin
My source of inspiration:Lalita
I live: in a cozy town home with an Italian garden with my beautiful baby girl Lara and our pet Kotmish
I learned: "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." -George Bernard Shaw

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Devil's Highway

I just finished reading The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. It will haunt me. It tells the story of a group of Mexicans - illegal entrants- who pass the US border and then get disoriented and lost in the desert, and are then abandoned by their guides to be baked in the heat to death. A true story. I would have re-read it, stealing from my scant sleep time, if only I had the courage to do so.

2 Comments:

At 10:45 PM, Anonymous said...: Leman, in the middle of a thesis submission crisis, Sevi and I did not forget your birthday (as I occupy both the home PC and the Sevi's entire weekend), but could not find time to do so, and now even time difference cannot help. Anyway, hope you had a party you enjoyed and wish you have another fantastic year, full of pleasant surprises! Big big hugz!
Emrah
At 10:44 AM, lemancanturk said...: Emrah, in fact we are yet to celebrate it, today as a matter of fact. Thanks for the hugs, which are returned. Couldn't find time for blogging, but Deniz was here-had the most surreal magical time. And we are expectng you and Sevi next time:)