The first thing we did this morning after showering, before we packed and before we even ate breakfast, was to finally eat the sakura manjū we bought on Miyajima in the Hello Kitty store.


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One benefit of staying in a ryokan is that you get both dinner and breakfast, so after sleeping in almost until the last minute, I was awakened by softlykarou with exactly enough time to make it to breakfast after a quick shower. And such a breakfast:


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A friend was coming into town, and since we had never met in person (welcome to the future), might as well make our first meeting as impressive as it could possibly be, right?


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I tend to write pretty detailed posts about my vacations because even though they're mostly only of interest to me, I like to have a record for when I go back and reread old posts. But this time I was gone for two weeks and, taking into account how verbose my blog posts tend to be, a detailed account of everything I did would run for 10,000 words ( Read more... )

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Not mine, softlykarou's. After three years of schooling, on Wednesday she finally got her Education Specialist degree and is now fully qualified. Yay ( Read more... )

That was the hashtag that was apparently decided on by the participants.

Yesterday was tropicanaomega and her fiance's wedding. softlykarou and I arrived late thanks to having failed to correctly predict traffic and, not being sportsball fans, not realizing there was a Cubs game that would foul things up. Also, a bus was late, which added ten minutes to our arrival time ( Read more... )

I haven't been to that many weddings. I might have had an inflated image of how many other people attended when I was younger, but it seemed like I would always hear people talking about going to this or that relative's wedding, but I was the oldest cousin and no one in my parents' generation that we were close to got divorced, so the very first ( Read more... )

I suspect that will cause more psychic damage than any lack of celebrating Easter or Christmas, neither of which I've cared about at all for decades at this point. Is WASJ even a category? If it is, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

I wrote about my meeting with the rabbi a month ago, and how it was a bit confusing, and the beit din I went ( Read more... )

So yesterday was the wedding of sephimb and Dayna on Saturday. I mentioned briefly in my post about spacialk's wedding that hers was the first "traditional" wedding I had been to, at least in terms of the pop cultural idea of weddings--dearly beloved etc., etc.jdcohen's now-wife is a Quaker, and a Meeting isn't really the sort of thing that one expects to find in a ( Read more... )