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[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Good morning to everyone except whoever invented the SBL citation style. My head hurts.

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

@matt_boot_ In Arabic, I always said “عفواً؟” until my cousin in Lebanon laughed at me once and told me not to say that in public because they’d know I’m a foreigner since nobody is actually that polite. 🥲
In English I just say “sorry?”

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

@dance_myth No worries. Thanks so much for the reply though!

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

@dance_myth Hello! Are you the D. Charles Smith who wrote “The Role of Mothers in the Genealogical Lists of Jacob’s Sons”?

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

I love finding random stuff like this in books. I’m in Canada by the way. <3

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Nurse told my mom “religious studies is more important than medical school.” Don’t think that made her feel better, but at least I know I’ve gained a hype woman.

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Me tweeting for the 2 bots that follow me + the few people who click on my profile after I follow them.

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

When I took my first RS class as an elective, our prof told us that he tells people he sells refrigerators so people leave him alone. I didn’t understand what he meant until I ended up making RS one of my majors 2 years later & started seeing peoples reactions about it myself. <3

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Sorry to my ancestors, but Baklawa and Knafeh are overrated.

[Mark Leuchter @MarkLeuchter]

@bluebloodcoug You don’t have to be religious to study religion, just like you don’t have to be on fire to study thermodynamics. But even so, it’s possible to be religious and still study religion from a critical, academic perspective.

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Was just working on my essay and got an email from my prof who shared with me an article they came across while they were doing their own research because they knew it was relevant to my paper. I really have the best instructors in the world!

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

I hear someone on Duo Lingo.

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

In my WhatsApp auntie era. ❤️

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

@SaadYacoob That’s awesome! Hoping I’ll get there someday too. It’s gonna be my second time doing this, so I’m pretty excited.

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

What did 'in order to' do to hurt you, Grammarly

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

@SaadYacoob Not me seeing this after taking a break from the detailed everything I’ve written for the seminar discussion I’m leading tomorrow. 😭

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Also:

Charter of Expulsion (1492) - translated by Edward Peters

Jewish Account of the Expulsion (1495) - translated by Jacob R. Marcus

Judah Abravanel, Poem to His Son (1503) - translated by Raymond P. Scheindlin

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

Today I read:

Hernando del Pulgar (1436-1492), Crónicas de los reyes de Castilla (1492) - translated by Teofilo Ruiz

Capitulations of Granada (1491) - translated by L.P. Harvey

Nudbhat al-‘asr - translated by L.P. Harvey

[Layla @LaylaWithaY]

I intended on keeping track of what I’ve been reading everyday through my Tweets but forgot about it after the first one. Thanks brain. <3

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The value of reading, and of writing things down that we read, or hear, cannot be overstated. Two expert guests (who specialize in speech and memory) on the Huberman Lab podcast explained that when we read text or listen to something and then write key aspects/takeaways down by hand- not typing, it engages our motor control centers in ways that deeply embed that information to our memory. Taking notes, however cursory, turns out to be the best way to remember and implement information later.