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I am not jasmine, I am aladdin. my last name is extremely french and also has the word "dude" in it so that's cool I guess. I'm nineteen and a freshman at florida state university, where I work on the tech team at the college of music and aspire to someday be a music journalist. I'm a hot mess 99% of the time, and asleep for the remaining 1%. I've got one of those sarcastic personalities that is borderline "too far," whatever that means. I grew up on the beach for the first half of my life, and dA hOoD for the second. I believe that dancing heals almost everything, I like to eat hummus, I have a weird obsession with the asian culture, and I think elvis presley is the most gorgeous human to ever walk the earth's grounds. thats it, really. keep walkin' on sunshine, folks

“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’ If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen. ‘They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be okay? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.’ So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.’” —George Carlin

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