I really don't know if I need to recount this, because I'm sure I will look back on it with vivid horror and hopefully amusement.  First LGA calls me to get their early so I can get on an earlier connecting flight because my first is delayed.  This flight is delayed.  I get to pittsburgh in time and waight two hours for my connecting flight to St ( Read more... )

This week was simchat torah, and so after my parents went home I somehow finally got around to starting this thing.  Kind of a weird juxtaposition - beatles and Genesis.  And I mean the beginning.  Funny thing is, the songs are playing from early through late Beatles (i'm pretty sure its the One album) - so as the Adam and Eve grow up and lose ( Read more... )

So you're lost in your exams and essays, your painfully approaching deadlines being choked by procrastination but there's something new in town this week.  It creeps up behind you as you crouch over your computer, it sneaks in and out of your peripheral vision as you read the paper, until finally you break through the doors of your exam and into a ( Read more... )

There's nothing better for a clear mind than a clear desk, an empty room, no distractions.  There is nothing worse for me than the mess I make for myself.  Loose papers, books guitars, change, as far as my head can turn, it somehow makes me just as confused inside.  I swear that I'm describing some sort of expression I've heard before.  Empty desk ( Read more... )

When I walked out of Hebrew today I was practically skipping.  Instead of the 300 ripping me to shreds, I was even doing better than some of my classmates.  Big, big win.  I bounced down the steps, glided into my room and plugged in my dead cell phone, thinking, damn how is my bubble possibly going to burst ( Read more... )

I swear i wasn't procrastinating picking up lj again!  Welcome back me.  Rushed off too a foreign land and landed back in a tumble of dirty laundry and leftover shekels about two days ago.   THIS two and a half month story will be told as soon as I ever manage to do anything productive back here at home.

Coming home this time was not like the other ( Read more... )

so my plan was to keep a written journal and put it up here later.  but i just have to say something.  I can't believe i've already been here a MONTH.  A MONTH!!!  true, i've done and seen enough to fill up a year, but it still feels like i've been here for like, days.  i need this trip to slow down. also i have to say this.  i'm in no way ( Read more... )

After a whirlwind of all night packing (after across the universe of course), I spent the usual way too long day in travel, and lazily started reading Into the Wild.  For all the adventure, it's not the most excitingly written book, but it is twisting my insides like no other.  I have so much in common with Chris McCandless at this stage in my life ( Read more... )

I was looking for this quote for a while, and I finally remembered where I had seen it first - politicalcompass.org:

He says naïvely, outspokenly and without suggestion of embarrassment "I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God."
It is only another way of saying "I, the Lord thy God, am a small God; ( Read more... )

Where I'll be staying for two weeks:

View Larger Map

I think that after this semester I deserve some wholesome wholesome* vacation to kibbutzland.  Or well, a working vacation.

*ignoring its distance from that friendly little dotted line to the north.