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WHO wants to be a person who is my VALENTINE?
Step 1: Plan to do Arabic homework (making a Valentine's Day card in Arabic) on Monday, leaving Tuesday open for other things.
Step 2: Do not do Arabic homework on Monday.
Step 3: Plan to do Arabic homework on Tuesday.
Step 4: Do not do Arabic homework on Tuesday.
Step 5: Dream, on Tuesday night, that you have come to class on Wednesday morning without having done your homework, and that you are trying - very badly - to fake it and are miserable and embarrassed. Still within the dream, come up with a brilliant idea for a Valentine that uses mostly vocabulary you already know and try to wing it.
Step 6: Wake up. Hooray! You have an idea for your Valentine's Day card and - unlike in the dream - you have several hours before you need to go to class.
Step 7: Put it off for a few more hours.
Step 8: Make your valentine. Clearly this is a brilliant and hilarious valentine! You are a genius!
Step 9: Show valentine off to coworkers before going to class. Realize, upon translating, that the valentine is not nearly as funny as it was in your dream and that what humor it has is only funny to you... and it may not even be remotely readable, anyway.
Step 10: Read valentine in class, prefacing with "This is in the style of those elementary-school valentines, in that it's not very funny and doesn't make much sense." Your professor actually understands the sentences that you're putting together, which is nice, but doesn't really get your attempts at humor, as usual.
The valentine:
The translation/general idea I was going for (from this):
Yeah. Strange idea. In my dream it was really great and went over really well! I need to pay less attention to dreams, perhaps.
srah - Wednesday, 13 February 2008 - 6:42 PM
Tags: arabic, holidays, in arabic, valentine's day
