Day 3
The fire is still raging in the north, spreading like OH HEY WILDFIRE and burning the hundreds and hundreds of acres and, every once in a while, property in its path. One of the structure casualties is a boutique hotel/spa -- very possibly Israel's finest -- where a friend of mine was supposed to spend the weekend. There are other things of course, worse things, but you remember the ones you were closest to; I stayed in that hotel twice. I also have this constant stream of memories in my mind now, flashes of all the times I can remember hiking in the Carmel, which I'm trying to hold on to and imprint in my mind because the mountains aren't going to look like that again for a long time. I remember one trip we had there, for a cousin's Bat Mitzvah. Instead of any kind of indoor party, we went on a hike in one of the Carmel forests (which culminated with a barbecue), with her father as the tour guide -- he used to work for the Israeli Nature Protection Organization. At one point he stood next to a large stone and asked us if we could find anything strange about it. We scanned it closely from top to bottom, but found nothing... and then he very carefully lifted a perfectly circular disc that was apparently the naturally carved lid of a perfect narrow tunnel that led deep into the stone, carved by a local spider. And I don't like bugs -- at all -- but the way the tunnels were so well camouflaged and so, so delicately covered, was beautiful. And I am now feeling really inappropriately sad about those spiders :(
I'm also feeling enormously, ridiculously sentimental about the foreign aid we're receiving. Like, I had actual tears in my eyes for a moment there today. It really means a lot. And, okay, suddenly getting this kind of validation (by any country that is not the US) kind of drove home how alone it feels the rest of the time, and -- I'm a very harsh critic of Israeli policy, but man, it feels good to know other countries are actively helping out, regardless of proximity or, in some cases, political relations. It's an utterly bizarre place to be in all of a sudden, bu I don't know. I'm weirdly emotional about it. Once again, *hugs world and specifically citizens of those countries. If you're reading this, that probably means you too.*
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I also had a job interview today, which is not for anything amazing but I think it went fine and we'll see how it goes. And I visited
marina. And I went to a movie -- Fair Game, where the hilarious bit is that over here the actors on the posters are billed Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Liraz Cherkhi. If you've seen the movie and don't remember her it's because she has a bit part and is totally not one of the leads, except she's an Israeli actress so obviously she needs to be on the poster.
And I still want to post some Hanukkahish thing -- the post is titled "Day 3" and everything -- but I am too tired to produce content, so instead I will self-pimp and link.
Here are 40 Hanukkah-themed fics in various fandoms! I know many of the fandoms and many of the authors and I'm sure there's some great stuff I haven't read in there; sorry I can't provide specific recs, but honestly judging by the authors that entire list looks good. Also because it isn't archived there, I'll link to one more here (again) now that it's holiday appropriate: Rites of [Pass]age by arsenicjade (Gabe Saporta, gen).
I also reserve the right to self pimp (once a year!) so whatever. In the past I've written Eight Hanukkah Candles Lisa Cuddy Lit (House MD, 4700 words, Cuddy gen) and co-wrote (with
marina and
miarr) Eight Days of Lamberkkah (Adam Lambert/various crossovers, 4600 words). So if you are in the mood for holiday fic, just ~know that they are still there :-)
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I'm also feeling enormously, ridiculously sentimental about the foreign aid we're receiving. Like, I had actual tears in my eyes for a moment there today. It really means a lot. And, okay, suddenly getting this kind of validation (by any country that is not the US) kind of drove home how alone it feels the rest of the time, and -- I'm a very harsh critic of Israeli policy, but man, it feels good to know other countries are actively helping out, regardless of proximity or, in some cases, political relations. It's an utterly bizarre place to be in all of a sudden, bu I don't know. I'm weirdly emotional about it. Once again, *hugs world and specifically citizens of those countries. If you're reading this, that probably means you too.*
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I also had a job interview today, which is not for anything amazing but I think it went fine and we'll see how it goes. And I visited
marina. And I went to a movie -- Fair Game, where the hilarious bit is that over here the actors on the posters are billed Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Liraz Cherkhi. If you've seen the movie and don't remember her it's because she has a bit part and is totally not one of the leads, except she's an Israeli actress so obviously she needs to be on the poster.
And I still want to post some Hanukkahish thing -- the post is titled "Day 3" and everything -- but I am too tired to produce content, so instead I will self-pimp and link.
Here are 40 Hanukkah-themed fics in various fandoms! I know many of the fandoms and many of the authors and I'm sure there's some great stuff I haven't read in there; sorry I can't provide specific recs, but honestly judging by the authors that entire list looks good. Also because it isn't archived there, I'll link to one more here (again) now that it's holiday appropriate: Rites of [Pass]age by arsenicjade (Gabe Saporta, gen).
I also reserve the right to self pimp (once a year!) so whatever. In the past I've written Eight Hanukkah Candles Lisa Cuddy Lit (House MD, 4700 words, Cuddy gen) and co-wrote (with
marina and
miarr) Eight Days of Lamberkkah (Adam Lambert/various crossovers, 4600 words). So if you are in the mood for holiday fic, just ~know that they are still there :-)
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