I'm oh so tired...

[aeriala]

I'm exhausted. I don't think I've slept more than 17 hours altogether for the past three nights. Not good. Not enough. Blah. Another reason for feeling slightly blah is that confounded tube I had in my arm all day yesterday. Man, I think that was the longest day I've ever had. Started at 6:30, finished at 1:00 - both a.m. And all through the day people were taking blood. You know how when you give blood you're tired so you're supposed to rest and eat sugary things to rejuvinate yourself? Well, we did pleanty of the latter but not quite enough of the former. In addition to the ice cream I brought, there was leftover cake, hamin tashin (for rosh codesh) and cookies of all shapes and kinds. On the other hand, when people are taking blood from you every hour or two, in addition to taking classes all the while, you can't really find the time to take a good nap. But really and truthfully, that wasn't the most annoying thing about it. What was most annoying was that we couldn't really use the arm the tube was in. Well, it's not that we couldn't it's just that we didn't really want to. I mean, if every timeyou bent your arm you felt something that wasn't you move inside your arm, you wouldn't want to either. It's not that it hurt, it just felt so darn weird that we preffered not to. Plus, if you bent your arm too much the tube might not work so well and they'd have to take it out and go back to pricking you every time. No thanks. So we ended up walking around all day with what I started calling "waitress arm" - that is, arm straight down at our sides about 15-20 centimeters away from our bodies, plam up -as if holding a plate. Rather amusing on others, not so on yourself. Oh, another thing: because I didn't want to move the tube and possibly pass out from the pain, I had my sleeve up to my elbow all day, and all of you guys know how cold I can get with both long sleeves down. I got so cold (and so purple) that I started walking around with just one glove on my left hand. I ignored the Michael Jackson comments. So it was finally taken out and I now have my arm back! Yaaaaaaay! I'm back to pricking... *unenthusiastic* Yaaay...
It's officially really chodesh Adar! And we've started the festivities already. The americans did their Purim schtick by turning the lobby into perek shlishi of Baba Batra - the masechet they were learning. They took corners of the room and decorated it according to a sugia in that perek. They have a shor mo'ad corner, an edim zomemim corner, it's really cute. So they're going to have that up this week then we're going to take it down and hang up our decorations for "Shabbat Zachor". It comes out evenly - a week each, and everyone is happy.
This morning, after my early morning blood donation and daf yomi we all drove to a beautiful flower covered hill in the midle of (as far as I'm concerned) nowhere. There we davened together and had out traditional rosh chodesh bagel breakfast, followed by a 'dvar torah' showing an interesting connection between the place we where (I think it's called Giv'at Haturmusim) and the story of David and Goliat. It was accompanied by an impromptu dramatization of the psukim by some of the older girls. 'Twas highly amusing and in good Adar spirit.
And on that note - I'm going to eat dinner. See ya!