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Last night after writing here, I went over to Donna's house around midnight. She was cooking naan (unsuccessfully) and I sat at her kitchen table and we talked for about 3 hours. It was a distraction technique, but it worked. She showed me a video of Zelensky playing piano that was just great. At 3am when I decided to go home, I thought I was so exhausted I was going to drop on the way home. Of course, when I got to bed, I couldn't sleep. I lay there for two hours before getting up and ordering Starbucks, then around 6 or 7 took a sleeping pill and finally fell asleep.
I woke up around 4 to a message to facetime my parents because they were worried about me, so I talked to my mom for a while. Then I went back to sleep for an hour, and woke up at 6. I heated some dinner and shoved that in my face, and then went to Temple.
Rabbi Sernovitz asked the pastor of the Atlanta Ukrainian Orthodox Church to come talk to us, which sounded cool, and I really wanted to hear what he would say, but he said he didn't like writing speeches and just talked from his heart. Then he went on a weird rant about communism and the NKGBVD which took me a minute to sort out into NKVD/KGB. He ended his prayer with "Slava Ukraini" and nobody said a word. Finally, a pause too late I'm like "ok I gotta say it" but also I don't know how to pronounce it and don't even really remember how to spell it to try to pronounce it. So I say something like "heroyam slava" which is clearly Ukrai-glish because "hero" is the word in English. Well he looks at me and laughs, so clearly it wasn't even close to right, but whatever, at least I didn't leave him hanging.
Services went on for almost 2 hours, and it was after 9pm when we ended. Gone are the days where Rabbi Lebow got upset if we went for more than an hour. I grabbed a snack before looking at my watch, but as soon as I saw the time, I got in the car and left. I got home around 9:45 and looked at my dailies for the first time in the day. I quickly photoshopped an image, danced for 10 minutes, ate the marshmallow cookies I had grabbed from the oneg, and ordered enough groceries to cook something next week and some hand soap to come tomorrow.
Suddenly it was 10:30 and long past time to write here, so I started this. I keep getting distracted, but I think I'm pretty much done anyway. Probably not going to sleep any time soon, since I didn't really get up until 6 this evening. Not sure what I am going to do. Maybe I'll actually watch youtube since I'm feeling pretty strong for once, and things seem to be going okay.
I woke up around 4 to a message to facetime my parents because they were worried about me, so I talked to my mom for a while. Then I went back to sleep for an hour, and woke up at 6. I heated some dinner and shoved that in my face, and then went to Temple.
Rabbi Sernovitz asked the pastor of the Atlanta Ukrainian Orthodox Church to come talk to us, which sounded cool, and I really wanted to hear what he would say, but he said he didn't like writing speeches and just talked from his heart. Then he went on a weird rant about communism and the NKGBVD which took me a minute to sort out into NKVD/KGB. He ended his prayer with "Slava Ukraini" and nobody said a word. Finally, a pause too late I'm like "ok I gotta say it" but also I don't know how to pronounce it and don't even really remember how to spell it to try to pronounce it. So I say something like "heroyam slava" which is clearly Ukrai-glish because "hero" is the word in English. Well he looks at me and laughs, so clearly it wasn't even close to right, but whatever, at least I didn't leave him hanging.
Services went on for almost 2 hours, and it was after 9pm when we ended. Gone are the days where Rabbi Lebow got upset if we went for more than an hour. I grabbed a snack before looking at my watch, but as soon as I saw the time, I got in the car and left. I got home around 9:45 and looked at my dailies for the first time in the day. I quickly photoshopped an image, danced for 10 minutes, ate the marshmallow cookies I had grabbed from the oneg, and ordered enough groceries to cook something next week and some hand soap to come tomorrow.
Suddenly it was 10:30 and long past time to write here, so I started this. I keep getting distracted, but I think I'm pretty much done anyway. Probably not going to sleep any time soon, since I didn't really get up until 6 this evening. Not sure what I am going to do. Maybe I'll actually watch youtube since I'm feeling pretty strong for once, and things seem to be going okay.