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You have to have a lot of hobbies here, folks. I’ve got painting, writing, blogging, reading and exercising to keep my mind occupied. Otherwise, there’s absolutely nothing to do. Of course, you could gossip, watch movies and eat.

Sometimes, like today, it feels like I’m sitting around waiting for my next meal. Not a good thing ’cause I tell you, the Muslim women I work with, that’s what it looks like they do. Folks, these women are younger than myself, never been married and no kids.

We wear these abayas over here outside but inside, we can take them off ’cause we’ve got clothes on underneath. Well, I don’t reckon it’s all because I’m over here in the middle of the east that I’m imagining folk naked. I mean, I have drawn and painted a buncha folk in the raw. I think it’s kinda my nature to strip folk naked in my mind. Should you and I ever meet and it happens to you, I’d never initiate a conversation about it. I mean, would you? I’d just imagine these different parts, put them into one whole and then go about whatever we were doing. Don’t be embarrassed or nothing. Shit, you can do the same to me if you want. It’s not like I can stop you. No more than the woman could stop me a couple of days ago with imagining the body you see here of hers.

This is when I know, during lunch, I need to put my earphones in and make myself busy on the computer or something. Let me also tell you that lunch is 3,5 hours long. If you have any suggestions in keeping my mind from going in this direction, I could use your help, folks. I mean, whatever you suggest won’t break this habit of mine completely but considering that women folk have so few opportunities to do anything publicly in this particular area, like going out for lunch, any ideas from you are certainly welcomed.

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