Folk Music, Israel and Work....
So last Sunday I completely whacked out my sleep schedule and went to the interest meeting for my synagogue's December, 2006 Israel trip. I spent the whole night at work like a drooling zombie, but it was SO WORTH IT!!! I am so excited, and I can't wait until next December. It's going to be a 12 day trip, and something that hadn't occured to me before, but occured to me at the meeting, was that this will be a trip with adults, not a bunch of teenage bums who just want to party. It should be really different from my USY trip in 1998 (which I really loved, and my trip-mates were cool, but let's face it, in a lot of ways, 16 year olds suck). Plus I'll be able to actually legally buy wine at a nice vineyard...and THIS time I'll actually have spending money!!! I cannot WAIT.
This Friday I also whacked out my sleep schedule so I could stay up and see Harry Potter. It was very good. Very dark. But even more exciting was that there was an AIR HOCKEY table at the movie theatre. Now, you'd think that after 7 years of not playing, I wouldn't be such an awesome player anymore, but you know what? I am. I am an awesome air hockey player. Still. :-) Now I've just got to start suckering people into playing air hockey with me, now that I know there's a table so close!!! That's what I get for never seeing movies.
Meanwhile, yesterday night I went down to Bel Air, MD (well, almost...to a town called "Churchville") to see a folk concert. I know I say this after every concert I go to, about everybody I see, but everybody, you have to see David Roth!!! He's like a singing Chicken Soup for the Soul. He's just amazing. I mean, I liked the few songs he did at the MERCY2 concert back in the beginning of October, but I wasn't really sure I wanted to see a whole concert with just him. I was sort of lying in bed on Saturday afternoon debating with myself whether to just go to sleep (remember, 5 PM is pretty late for me to stay up, much less 8 PM, 10 PM, midnight...). But I went, and it was AMAZING! There were only 16 (by my count) people in the audience, which caused some consternation to the "regulars" (which apparently was everyone but me -- seems this particular concert series is given by a Unitarian church, and is attended almost exclusively by the church members...from what I can tell. By the way, David Roth is a self-described "Nice Jewish Boy"). But I loved it. It was very intimate. He took requests, he sat literally 2 feet away from me (not in front of the microphone; he just sat right next to the audience). It was amazing. I wish A) there were more awesome folk concerts around here, and B) people actually wanted to go to them.
Choir practice today, then my workweek starts. It's going to be sort of a strange one, since while I am working Thanksgiving, I'm using one of my floating holidays to take off on Tuesday the 22nd/Wednesday the 23rd to go to an interfaith service on Tuesday night that my synagogue's choir will be performing at. Should be cool all around. I've never been to an interfaith service before, so I'll be curious to see what it's like.
This Friday I also whacked out my sleep schedule so I could stay up and see Harry Potter. It was very good. Very dark. But even more exciting was that there was an AIR HOCKEY table at the movie theatre. Now, you'd think that after 7 years of not playing, I wouldn't be such an awesome player anymore, but you know what? I am. I am an awesome air hockey player. Still. :-) Now I've just got to start suckering people into playing air hockey with me, now that I know there's a table so close!!! That's what I get for never seeing movies.
Meanwhile, yesterday night I went down to Bel Air, MD (well, almost...to a town called "Churchville") to see a folk concert. I know I say this after every concert I go to, about everybody I see, but everybody, you have to see David Roth!!! He's like a singing Chicken Soup for the Soul. He's just amazing. I mean, I liked the few songs he did at the MERCY2 concert back in the beginning of October, but I wasn't really sure I wanted to see a whole concert with just him. I was sort of lying in bed on Saturday afternoon debating with myself whether to just go to sleep (remember, 5 PM is pretty late for me to stay up, much less 8 PM, 10 PM, midnight...). But I went, and it was AMAZING! There were only 16 (by my count) people in the audience, which caused some consternation to the "regulars" (which apparently was everyone but me -- seems this particular concert series is given by a Unitarian church, and is attended almost exclusively by the church members...from what I can tell. By the way, David Roth is a self-described "Nice Jewish Boy"). But I loved it. It was very intimate. He took requests, he sat literally 2 feet away from me (not in front of the microphone; he just sat right next to the audience). It was amazing. I wish A) there were more awesome folk concerts around here, and B) people actually wanted to go to them.
Choir practice today, then my workweek starts. It's going to be sort of a strange one, since while I am working Thanksgiving, I'm using one of my floating holidays to take off on Tuesday the 22nd/Wednesday the 23rd to go to an interfaith service on Tuesday night that my synagogue's choir will be performing at. Should be cool all around. I've never been to an interfaith service before, so I'll be curious to see what it's like.