Everybody wake up if you're living with your eyes closed....
I just got the new Dave album. It is incredible. I wish I were Boyd Tinsley in all his electric violin (and now electric mandolin!) glory. They never cease to amaze me.
It's 4 AM. I can't sleep. I can probably attribute that to the 2 hour nap I took earlier tonight...but mehhhh anyways.
One more final to go and then I'm done!!! I handed in my Yiddish final today and took my Congress, Bureaucracy & Public Policy final. Now all that's left is Israeli Politics, on Thursday. It's a little strange being done with my Freshman year of college...for the shear fact that I am done with my Freshman year of college, but also because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing this summer (and this summer starts in four or so days, on Saturday, for me, when I go home). Unless some amazing place offers me an incredible internship, it looks like it'll be working at some sort of camp again...maybe Shibley, maybe lifeguarding at some other place...who knows? I spoke to one of the on-campus coordinators from AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) on the phone for half an hour today and she kept emphasizing how I should do some work on a campaign this summer, with the NYC mayoral race coming up and all.... and, ironically, my mom has connections that could probably get me an internship working for Bloomberg's (Republican) reelection campaign....or most other Republican NYC politicians. But I don't think I could ever bring myself to work/volunteer for a Republican (unless it were John McCain...oh, McCain, how I <3 you)....there is something fundamentally wrong (to me at least) about working for someone/something I don't believe in just to further my own resume/potential career. So we'll see...
Speaking of bad ways to further your own personal agenda, the Boston JCRC Holocaust Commemoration service at Faneuil Hall yesterday was certainly an experience. Protests from neo-Nazis were expected, but when we got there we didn't see any neo-Nazis...just a massive group of anarchists "protesting" neo-Nazis through disturbingly inappropriate chants of "Nazis should burn in hell!", etc...but even worse was the fact that these people were utilizing the Holocaust Commemoration to further their own political goals of workers' rights and wage increases and the like....THAT IS DISGUSTING. Not only were they protesting about that stuff outside, but a few had the NERVE to come inside to the service and, right as the Rabbi was beginning the El Maleh Rachamim (one of the most sacred parts of the service), screamed out about the Soviet Union and Fallujah and a bunch of completely inappropriate and irrelevant political topics. As politically-driven as I am, it disgusts me that these people had the nerve to come into a service commemorating the deaths of many of my family members (all 9 of my grandmother's brothers and sisters, and her parents, as well as countless others), as well as 11 million other innocent victims, and try to further their own political goals. These needs to be a level of decency and approprateness taken into consideration with regards to freedom of speech; yesterday, those people most certainly crossed the line in that regard.
Well....on that note, I think I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow will be a try-to-figure-out-this-summer day (calling Shibley, as well as potential internship places); Wednesday is learn-Israeli-politics day; Thursday is the final and then Gaby will be here!! Friday will be packing/Gaby/etc....and then home on Saturday!!!
Amy
It's 4 AM. I can't sleep. I can probably attribute that to the 2 hour nap I took earlier tonight...but mehhhh anyways.
One more final to go and then I'm done!!! I handed in my Yiddish final today and took my Congress, Bureaucracy & Public Policy final. Now all that's left is Israeli Politics, on Thursday. It's a little strange being done with my Freshman year of college...for the shear fact that I am done with my Freshman year of college, but also because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing this summer (and this summer starts in four or so days, on Saturday, for me, when I go home). Unless some amazing place offers me an incredible internship, it looks like it'll be working at some sort of camp again...maybe Shibley, maybe lifeguarding at some other place...who knows? I spoke to one of the on-campus coordinators from AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) on the phone for half an hour today and she kept emphasizing how I should do some work on a campaign this summer, with the NYC mayoral race coming up and all.... and, ironically, my mom has connections that could probably get me an internship working for Bloomberg's (Republican) reelection campaign....or most other Republican NYC politicians. But I don't think I could ever bring myself to work/volunteer for a Republican (unless it were John McCain...oh, McCain, how I <3 you)....there is something fundamentally wrong (to me at least) about working for someone/something I don't believe in just to further my own resume/potential career. So we'll see...
Speaking of bad ways to further your own personal agenda, the Boston JCRC Holocaust Commemoration service at Faneuil Hall yesterday was certainly an experience. Protests from neo-Nazis were expected, but when we got there we didn't see any neo-Nazis...just a massive group of anarchists "protesting" neo-Nazis through disturbingly inappropriate chants of "Nazis should burn in hell!", etc...but even worse was the fact that these people were utilizing the Holocaust Commemoration to further their own political goals of workers' rights and wage increases and the like....THAT IS DISGUSTING. Not only were they protesting about that stuff outside, but a few had the NERVE to come inside to the service and, right as the Rabbi was beginning the El Maleh Rachamim (one of the most sacred parts of the service), screamed out about the Soviet Union and Fallujah and a bunch of completely inappropriate and irrelevant political topics. As politically-driven as I am, it disgusts me that these people had the nerve to come into a service commemorating the deaths of many of my family members (all 9 of my grandmother's brothers and sisters, and her parents, as well as countless others), as well as 11 million other innocent victims, and try to further their own political goals. These needs to be a level of decency and approprateness taken into consideration with regards to freedom of speech; yesterday, those people most certainly crossed the line in that regard.
Well....on that note, I think I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow will be a try-to-figure-out-this-summer day (calling Shibley, as well as potential internship places); Wednesday is learn-Israeli-politics day; Thursday is the final and then Gaby will be here!! Friday will be packing/Gaby/etc....and then home on Saturday!!!
Amy