I've been back from North America for a week that's been chock full of events, which is partly why I'd set my return date for August - a bachelorette party and birthdays and goodbye parties and my dad's 60th bday (which, thank you for all of you who helped me either record messages or cajole strangers across the US and Canada to record birthday ( Read more... )

Hockey podcasts are great. They're also life-ruiners, as is this entire fandom, but they also offer this wonderful glimpse into the inner workings of the NHL and hockey media and history and culture and let me listen in on the kinds of conversations that I would never be able to find anywhere else in Israel, and just learn a lot ( Read more... )

This year has gone by so fast. Does this keep happening as you grow up? Time just flies by at exponential speed? It's kind of terrifying ( Read more... )

HO my lord it is five AM and I have just finished kind of mostly cleaning my apartment. I CAN STEP ON THE FLOOR BAREFOOT NOW it is wonderful. To be honest I stepped on it barefoot before too, trying to dodge mountain-sized dust bunnies as much as I could and eternally failing. Basically I am a disgusting apartment inhabitant and managed to gross ( Read more... )