Georgia Game

All right, here we are, few hours away from the show down between Georgia and Tennessee .The game will be televised live by ESPN at 7:45 pm ET (bad timing-TARAWEEH time).Even though we won both games we did struggle with Colorado and Ole Miss. Hopefully we will not be defeated by the volunteers today. I hold a special place in my heart for my Georgia team. Tereshinki will be back after his injuries in South Carolina game. This will mean that we want to see the numbers go up on the score board. As for now I am relaxing at home waiting for the game and perhaps reminiscing on the Hail to Georgia song.
Hail to Georgia
Music and words by Gaines W. Walter, '15
Arranged by Hugh Hodgson, '15
Hail to Georgia down in Dixie,
A college honored, fair and true.
The Red and Black is her standard
Proudly it waves,
Streaming today and the ages through.
She's the fairest of the Southland,
We'll pledge our love to her for aye.
To that college dear
We'll raise a cheer
All hail to dear old U-G-A!

IFTAR AT SOMALI RESTAURANT

Nothing could equal my delight when I saw an old college friend of mine today in down town mosque .He apparently got a job in downtown Atlanta as an attorney. He told me that he was driving back to home in Athens. I offered him to have IFTAR with me at a Somali restaurant since he didn’t have a family in Atlanta (Plus he is single).He accepted my generous offer and decided to stay with me until after Taraweeh prayer. We drove back to the Somali restaurant after the Maghrib prayer. Apparently most of the people that eat Iftar at the restaurant pray inside the restaurant.They don’t make their Salat in the masjid which is few blocks away. We spent a few minutes on the buffet line searching in vain for some food to assuage the pangs of our hunger, but most of the food was gone. I felt embarrassed that I brought my friend all the way from downtown to have Iftar with me only to find out that my fellow Somalis have wiped out the buffet. I did not prepare myself for this to happen especially on a day when I have a friend with me. I continued to wind to kitchen to talk to the chef whom is an acquaintance of mine to make some good Somalia food for my guest. One thing I love about my Somali people is the affection and respect they accord to a guest. I ascended with my friend to a table next to other customers. Within few minutes plates of BARIIS and SUQAAR were flying in the air and landing on our table. It was a delicious IFTAR that my friend enjoyed. He even took some BARIIS for his mom in Athens.

Pissed as Hell

It’s been a while since I have written anything on my blog . Today I am mad at myself. Never have I feel defeated and dejected like today. Yesterday I got a phone call from a graduate school admission recruiter telling me that my application is incomplete and top it off the deadline has passed. WTF? I thought I have submitted all the required forms, recommendations and test results on time. Apparently the stupid of me have forgotten to take the TOEFL exam. WTF Do I need TOEFL for? I asked the pleasant sounding recruiter on the other line. I have completed all my post high school education in the USA. Apparently this graduate school needs a TOEFL exam for all foreign born student, No exception even if you did all your schooling in the USA from kindergarten to college. I could feel the pressure in my head building up as I screamed on the recruiter. I have pleaded and tried to explain it to her that this was the first time I heard of such utter nonsense. I cried so hard that my eye balls were about to lyses in their sockets. I pleaded to the recruiter that I will do everything they want me to do. Just give me another chance not to miss this application cycle. These will throw off all my planned strategies. This will mean that I will have to stay one more year out of school. WTF ? What will I do now? Sit another year out of school. And be a miserable fellow while my classmates head of to the graduate school of their choice or even be happy with their jobs?

Don’t they know that age is my enemy here? I am getting older. I don’t want to be in my thirties and still be in school. Also this will mean that my African trip would have to be cancelled as I have to think whether to take some other entrance exam like the Graduate school management t test (GMAT).I don’t see myself working in the corporate America. The little experienced I gained since my graduation tells me that corporate America is not a place for me. I work for a fortune five hundred company. And I hate every moment of it. I am pissed at myself now.My whole plan of attack has been disrupted. The only console the recruiter could offer me was to plead with the admission committee about my ignorance of the required test. WTF? You think the admission committee has a time for me? They have three hundred people applying for a class of sixty positions. They might as well toss away the incomplete application than having a stack of applicants on their desk tops. For every open slot there are three applicants who are competing for. The only console the recruiter has offered me was to wait and see what will happen and that I should cross my fingers. I need all the prayer that I could get. Let me stop here before I crush my laptop.