I just got done at AM-NY for my first day of work, and it was crazy and tiring but right as I left, a managing editor asked me to check the spelling of my name, and it's going to be in the paper tomorrow! I didn't write the article entirely but I "contributed reporting" for a sports article about the yankees taking steroids. awesome. of course, ( Read more... )

Being a senior who has no idea where she's going or what she's doing next year is not fun. Israel? New York? Argentina? Elsewhere? Applying to grad school / law school / midrasha? Should I be applying to every place ever? Looking for an apt in the Lower East Side? I like having things planned in advance and circumstances at the moment make that ( Read more... )

I'm back in the USA. India, I think, made me a little less idealistic and a little less trusting, but in general it was a really incredible, interesting, and fun trip. I stayed with my friend Ayan's amazingly-good-cook grandmother in Kolkata, discovered my hidden raver and then got food poisoning on the beaches of Goa, hung out with Indian ( Read more... )

This is my favorite song of the day and it's really cool! even if it's in Spanish and most of you can't understand the words, I think it's still worth watching the video for the specialness of that ( Read more... )

For anyone who knows these people, both Jill Grunewald (7th grade advance reading teacher) and Rabbi Dovid Greene of Chabad of Rochester MN are my new facebook friends. Unlike my parents, they both are active users. They keep sending me facebook messages and commenting on my photos! It is very weird for me.
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I went to Jerusalem today ( Read more... )

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PS: brains have guts?

pps: IF YOU HAVE SKYPE let me know and i'll skype you. I can't figure out how to add money to my account and call phones right now, I think my credit card thinks that it has been stolen, and isn't working. but I can do computer-to-computer skypage and I would love to do that!

-Laura

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Hey all you Minnesotans! (this one is directed at you ( Read more... )