I learned to use a lathe today in my woodworking class.  It was pretty awesome, and I was sorry to have to stop after 3 hours.  I also exploded my first piece of wood, which the instructor said was a first.  Now, I'm blowing sawdust infused snot out of my nose. 

I have my sewing machine ( Read more... )

For dinner we had:

-pasta with butter, salt, pepper, parmesan, a ton (well, really a handful) of fresh picked garden basil, and a garden tomato

-fresh picked garden kale sauteed in olive oil with garden garlic, seasoned with salt and pepper

-tofu seasoned with soy sauce, garlic and red pepper (?), sauteed until crispy

Heaven. 

the peas I planted sprouted-- lots of them.  and, after I'd given up on this year's crop, the sunchokes finally sprouted too!

Today around midday I was thinking how I like my job, I like the excitement, the accomplishments, just getting things done, and pretty well ( Read more... )

Since becoming the proud owner of two pairs of wool blend pants, I've been agonizing over how to clean them without carcinogenic, polluting, dry-cleaning.  (I haven't cleaned them at all yet)  Apparantly, wet-cleaning wool isn't as hard as it's made out to be.  I mean, people must have been doing something for the thousands of years they wore wool ( Read more... )

When learning the story of Avigayil convincing David not to kill her husbands household, my students says: "It's like God on Mt. Sinai wanting to kill all the Israelites, and Moses convincing him not to"

Man, this kid thinks in interesting directions.  I think any goals of getting her to think textually have been accomplished :)

wow, pesach is over.   weird.

I even ate a token cracker, just because I could.  But it hasn't totally sunk in yet.

A friend of mine living in Israel is under house arrest, after spending a night in a police custody earlier this week.  The whole thing is insane.

. . . that Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama are playing good cop/ bad cop on the race issue?

Not necessarily intentionally  (though that's possible), but maybe both sides are needed.  The fire and brimstone telling-it-as-it-is, and the message of optimism, bringing out the best in people by trusting them to already have it within them.