For some odd reason, there was a line from the English readings my synagogue uses for Yizkor (the memorial service) stuck in my head today. Something along the lines of, "Grant me the gift of time ( Read more... )

Thank you to mysticengineer for a wonderful (free!) evening yesterday. Three of us went to a concert at the Cooper-Hewitt design museum thanks to the time and money mysticengineer put into buying Time Out NY and looking through it for ideas for stuff to do last night. We never did make it to museums during the day... (that had been our first plan) but this means my room is ( Read more... )

Has it really been 20 days since I last posted? On the one hand, that seems unreasonably long. On the other, so much has happened over the past 20 or so days that I feel like it has to have been far longer ( Read more... )

So mysticengineer kindly lent me her copy of Myst IV, now that she is done with it ( Read more... )

So this morning, I was headed to a new teacher orientation (my last one), and so I got on the local train. The doors closed, then opened, then stayed that way. The train conductor announced that there was a problem with the doors and that we would be moving shortly. Then I heard an announcement from the station: "Due to an incident at 96th street, ( Read more... )

There's something about the first snow of the season that makes me want to just curl up on my bed with a good book and do nothing else all day. And the best part about it is, as long as the snow is on the ground and the sky is a frosty shade of white, I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about doing it ( Read more... )