In the last few days I have learned:
Plugra butter can be bought at Trader Joe's. It won at table butter at some butter tasting thing. Not so much for baking.
Breton butter with fleurs de sel costs over $4 in NYC for like 9 oz. of it.
The NYTimes actually does provide you with a word count before you download the PDFs of old articles.
The new Jewish-Russian American Girl Doll has the same face mold as Josefina and the American Girl Doll from 1970s San Francisco.
The Jewish Daily Forward is still called that even though it is published weekly.
There are sex tours of the Lower East Side. You can see where the brothels and porn industry were.
It is not easier to sleep at 3 am than at midnight.
A whole bag of fake German Cheetos doesn't always make my mouth burn from how salty they are.
A piece of toast with butter maybe has more calories than my bag of fake Cheetos.
95 percent of Jewish Studies minors are not Jewish.
Bench fleece jackets come in a lot of colors, even though I only ever saw grey and black in Freiburg.
No matter how certain I am that I would be able to sleep better if I went to bed before midnight, it is impossible.
Trying to plan for a practical future is a pain in the ass, especially when you were excited and content about winging it and taking chances and having fun instead.
Ovid's Ars Amatoria was really influential to chivalry and medieval views of love.
Luke Skywalker was really young and naive.
The old Star Wars are weird to watch after seeing Episode 3 at long last.
If you search 'purple coat' on Google Images, you will not be blown away.
Things about Detroit.
Obama was in Russia.
Austria has these crazy silver coins worth 1.5 euro if you try to spend them but 11 euro at a bank because they're silver and they're good for bringing your secret Austrian money across the border into Germany because of this.
I would like a nice hobbit hole like Bag End.
Hobbiton is known as Hobbingen in Deutschland.
The Skubb organizer from IKEA now comes in orange instead of red.
The movie An American Tail has other sequels besides Fievel Goes West.
Synagogues in a Spanish/Moorish/Islamic style are usually Reform Synagogues.
The Elridge St. Synagogue was somewhat Moorish and yet Orthodox.
Memory is life! Memory is the present! Memory is tangible! History is bad.
Pierre Nora is almost as impossible to read in English as he is in German.
THE VERB FOR THE JOB I USED TO DO WAS 'RECONCILING. I reconciled grants. It took me months to figure this verb out.
And yet, I haven't gotten past formatting the document in the German style. Zero words of any of my papers written.
Also, I'm not writing a paper about butter or Star Wars. Only papers about Jewish things.