On Friday I went on a 'Photography Marathon' event. You sign up in advance, arrive at the starting point on the day of and get an Official Shirt & Kit (TM), and over the next four hours you are gradually texted 6 challenge prompts, which you're supposed to photograph anywhere you want across the city. At the end you submit four photos in different ( Read more... )

LOL, I love when professors try to discuss bodily functions/sex/various "vulgar" whatever in class politely. Quotes from today's Weimar class, taught by Daniel Jackson!prof, include ( Read more... )

I don't actually believe in jinxing and it's not like if I don't say it out loud I'll be any less excited and it's not like if this doesn't pan out in the end the world will explode or anything, so what the hell (warning: there is bad-ish news after this ( Read more... )

Having a few free hours between classes, I decided to have breakfast at the coffee place outside the uni with my reading material for this evening's seminar on Renaissance life. The sun was shining outside and soft jazz played in the background and my coffee and eggs smelled delicious, and settling into the big comfortable couches at the corner of ( Read more... )

FUCK YEAH

So I just got accepted to a seminar about American Democracy that's a joint program between Tel Aviv University, Al-Quds University, and Oberlin College, which takes place next semester and includes online discussion and learning with students from the three universities, and culminates in a convention (funded by my school) that will ( Read more... )

( Mostly family stuff, and also amateur theater and the WTFiest slash pairing I have ever wanted to see. )

I have come to the probably not-very-original conclusion that Merlin/Arthur is a reincarnation of Remus/Sirius, except with Remus as Sirius's servant, and, you know, characterizations being generally different. Or maybe it's just that I'm suddenly reading fic again with words like "prat" and "shag", which have been distinctly lacking in the last ( Read more... )

Yesterday I linked sabrina_il to an Israeli gospel song that I really like; it was performed on our Israeli Idol type show so the quality is not amazing, but I’ve always found it happy and uplifting. In the middle, sabrina_il starts to laugh because of the lyrics that went: "A day of rejoicing for the black man", which -- what black man do you speak of in our fair ( Read more... )

1. War-wise: (a) Eventually things do start hitting closer to home, although thankfully not literally. My dad's secretary's son was injured in Gaza a two days ago; he's a paratrooper (in mandatory service) and was shot in the leg. He will be fine. (b) Today three rockets were launched from Lebanon. I don't actually believe a second front will open ( Read more... )

So while I really like my US History class, I've figured out what's been bothering me about it: I feel like we're studying at the same level of US middle school/high school students. Like at the end of the semester, I won't know any more than them. It's been pointed out to me that all History classes are, in some way, like this: my Ancient Greece ( Read more... )