One of the most useful things I learned in law school was the critical nature of "working the network." At first, I thought this activity was limited to beneficiaries of nepotism and/or large family trusts. Turns out, my network is bigger than I thought. Due to my networking skills (now they're transferable skills!), I have found involvement ( ( Read more... )

* What Would Grandma Fanny Do ( Read more... )

Way 5,000,976 to annoy M: Refer to a sandwich made of a toasted english muffin, a scrambled egg and a slice of cheese as an "eggy muffin." As in, "you made a scrumptious-looking eggy muffin for breakfast ( Read more... )

I have discovered that despite several attempts, there really is *no way* to make ground turkey breast palatable, no matter how much chili powder/garlic/onions etc you add to it. It still retains the faint odor of wet dog (or wet turkey feathers?) not apparent in thanksgiving roast turkey or the deli sliced turkey breast. Alas! I stuck in the ( Read more... )

*Yinglish for "dirty," from the Yiddish "Schmutz"= "dirt", or as defined by Urban dictionary, "Used by Jewish mothers to identify that you've got some kind of crap on your face ( Read more... )

Evidently I don't know the back of my hands that well, because they're the only part of my body that I managed to get sunburned today. I was at the Mitzvah garden for several hours (because I like it, even though its' ridiculous hot outside). I was covered from head to toe with wide brimmed hat, spf shirt and long pants. However, I took off my ( Read more... )

Feeling cheerful. It was a productive llama-day, with much laundry being washed and folded. Incidentally, during the washing and folding, I watched several episodes of the BBC series "Doc Martin" about a cranky and socially inept London surgeon who relocates to a small village as its general practitioner. I was trying to explain its charm to M ( Read more... )

This week, I've been teaching my Judaism & the Environment class as part of "winterims" classes as the HBHA. I think winterims are an awesome idea: kids get to explore hands-on activities like dance, cooking, music, sewing and crocheting - all those "kinetic" or experiential learning activities (emphasis on the "active") that they don't normally ( Read more... )

Happy Chanukah, Llama-blog readers. Had a lovely and uneventful Thanksgiving. Was sent home from Thanksgiving dinner with an extra pumpkin pie (it didn't survive the weekend.) Friday night, we had shabbat dinner at Chez borg with pre-emptive latkes and brisket :) It was delicious. Was sent home with leftover brisket, applesauce cake, a 6 pack ( Read more... )

Thursday was the final day of Summer Institute, so we all wore our t-shirts and gave presentation on "what I learned this summer." I made my Bloom's taxonomy poster which mutated into a "garden" of all the things we learned this summer (including a picture of Queen Victoria floating in a cloud, Monty Python-style giving "the look" that quiets ( Read more... )