And most intriguing.  Life in Israel keeps getting more complicated.  None of the lines hold, none of the boxes work.   Or maybe they do and I'm just over optimistic at the moment, reading this.  But I'd like to think that even people who make me angry can surprise everyone.  

1.I loved Reading Rainbow as a kid (yeah, there was a time I watched TV), so this made me very happy :)

2. Almost a year ago, when 5 of us went to New Orleans, one of the houses we gutted belonged to a Miz Dorothy.  She was (is) a wonderful old lady,a lifelong New Orleanian, I believe, who insisted very firmly on getting all our addresses so that ( Read more... )

Fasting went well yesterday.

Teaching went well yesterday.

But the two of them together?  totally wiped me out.

I had a small break-fast during the kids break, and by the time I was at 
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Shabbat was lovely.  I really need to make plans to spend more shabboses in DC.

I don't feel like recap-ing at the moment, especially since the majority of people reading were present for most of it.

I find this incredibly disturbing.  Even more so because I haven't the faintest idea what do about it.

It's easy to see "fair trade" as something that is needed to protect people who live far away, on different continents.  And easy to follow it in regards to non-essentials, like coffee, tea, and chocolate.  Not that I have that good a track ( Read more... )

Just got my second facebook wedding invitation.  (This one I'll hopefully be able to go to.)

 I didn't stay long at post DCBM socializing-- it wasn't all that happening, and I wasn't in the mood.  When I got home and began to open the car door, the wind immediately blew it the rest of the way open, and the cherry tree branches were whipped back and forth.

I figured I should take a walk.   The solid cloud cover had become patchy, and it was ( Read more... )

This is my second thanksgiving as a vegetarian.  Last year, we got an Unturkey, and it was pretty bad.  It was basically a solid lump of textured vegetable protein, wrapped in tofu skins.  We decided it looked like a mutant stuffed cabbage.  And it tasted like Hillel meal plan veggie deli.

I think I've gone a step(or several) better this year.   
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Seeing as I teach in a library once a week, I figured I should see about using it as a library as well. I asked about getting a Calvert County card, and it turned out that I could have my Montgomery card extended.  Cool.  I didn't know they could do that.  The only restriction is that I can't use the databases.  I think I'll survive ( Read more... )

.  .  . or else more aware of how my body feels.   'Though those are kinda the same, right ( Read more... )