the banorah has arrived! along with the slightly more traditional and slightly less goofy menorah i got because the banorah was only $20 and i was apparently in the mood to spend money on jewish ritual objects. i even remembered to get candles so i am Prepared.

the first night of hanukah is christmas. >.< which as someone pointed out on tumblr ( Read more... )

(my sister and i saw anora last weekend. it got great press and i really liked mikey madison in better things but i'm still not sure how i feel about it, other than part of it goes on way too long and i didn't think it was as funny as a lot of other people seemed to. i'm not sorry we saw it but maybe i was just expecting something else ( Read more... )

it was Spring today and i ate my lunch outside and was briefly overcome with sun. i also had a lunch show up at 12:15 for a 1:00 social because sometimes they are just that early ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
going postal which i thoroughly enjoyed - it's terry pratchett and it's about the post office so i was kind of predisposed to like it - even tho everything seemed to happen at the end. it kind of felt like i was waiting and waiting and waiting to see what happened and suddenly... it was over. i liked how it ended tho ( Read more... )

(my sister and i saw golda last weekend. it was tense.)

guess what season it is!

nanowrimo season! (not yet, altho i've been thinking about it.)

pumpkin spice season! ok, yes, that too ( Read more... )

cheetolini has apparently been indicted on thirty-four counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. this works for me. i wish i could skip ahead and see how many he's convicted for, tho. *crosses fingers ( Read more... )

today was presidents' day and i celebrated having the day off by spending some quality time sitting in the diesel writing about space truckers at a space truckstop, and then seeing magic mike's last dance (cute, sexy, occasionally dumb, very charming) (channing tatum really is a most charming potato), and then driving across the river *gasp* to get ( Read more... )

last weekend my curling club had a bonspiel - the boospiel - and now people are coming down with covid. >.< so they paused the regular leagues for a few days, so i did not curl tonight. i am ok with this. so far we won one game and lost one game and i'm 100% in favor of putting off us losing another one ( Read more... )

now that the days of awe are over i can wish my fellow hebs a shana tovah, and i hope you've all been sealed in the book of life for a good year. tuesday night my sister and i went out for pre-fasting dinner with cousins j&r and j's kids. wednesday my sister felt really meh so i went to morning services by myself, which was totally fine. she ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
false value, which i mostly liked. the first several chapters alternate time periods - january, december, january, december - something will happen or be alluded to in chapter x and then in chapter y (which takes place a month earlier) you find out what it is and how it happened. and after a while that gets old. and ( Read more... )