All Over The Place

[aadroma]

This is the third week in a row that I've attended Saturday morning Shabbat services. I'm sure it amazed the rabbi, since he's seen me more in the last month than he has all year. :: laugh :: There were also two cubbish guys there, and their interactions with one another made me question: are they a couple? ^^;;;;

Today I voted. Thank you, Illinois, for the early voting programme!!

In my experience, my interactions with people go one of two ways: the guys who I get along swimmingly with, and the guys who don't understand me whatsoever. It's always great to meet someone that I have a natural ease with, and NOT the "God, Roger, you're WEIRD" reactions that have, as of late, been fairly par for the course.

I'd kill to have a Brazilian steakhouse in this area.

Talked to a man today from Boston who is married, and has taken a hyphenated name (his plus his husband's), making me think again of what Carl and I would do once we get married. Roger Nyström-Jüng?? After my father died I started using my Hebrew name more (it clarified who died since my name IS my dad's name in English), and for a while I thought of making that official, which would mean that if I were to also hyphenate my name in marriage AND change my first name officially, then I'd be Regev Eliyahu Nyström-Jüng. Wow, that's a clusterfuck. :: laugh ::

So, to all my friends who have married: did you do anything with your names?

How awesome is it that it's not even November and already there's Eurovision news for 2009? Well, okay, _I_ think it's awesome. Apparently the UK, sick of being in the last five places on the scoreboard year after year, have called upon Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber to pen their entry for Moscow 2009:

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I'm not sure what to think about this, since I'm not a huge Weber fan. :: laugh :: Still, it's nice to see the UK taking the competition more seriously...