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January 2008
A letter to you, ten years ago.
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:18 P GMT-06
So a friend wrote a letter to herself at 17, she got the idea from Kapgar, who got the idea from Alissa, who got the idea from Terroni, who got the idea from Maria, who (big breath) got the idea from Brad Paisley.Dear Leee-uh,I had to trash th
Every night for the next 16 days.
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 5:55 P GMT-06
I looked at the schedule of vaudeville show rehearsals, work dinners, business travel, board meetings, and others odds and ends... I'm busy until February 16 (the night of the vaudeville show.) Oy. And then it continues for a few months... lots a
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a meme, why not?
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:22 P GMT-06
"His father, he thought, had just seen too many Schnitzler plays in his Vienna years, for the woman was dumpy and stupid."I suppose," said Meyer, abruptly breaking the silence as the flashing beams of the airport came in view, "th
Exciting stuff at OSRUI
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:12 P GMT-06
Tonight I had dinner with Jerry Kaye, the Director of OSRUI . OSRUI is the Oli-Sang Ruby Union Institute, in the summer is the the local camp of the Reform Movement and was founded by a certain Rabbi Schaalman. You may have heard of him.Jerry and I y
Aw shucks, thanks WIl Wheaton.
Monday, 28 January 2008 10:50 P GMT-06
I knew Wil Wheaton had a blog, but I rarely read it. Tonight a tweet tipped me off that there was some music to be heard over there. Know what he has? Three hours of 1983 MTV. THREE HOURS! From when they played music. While you all were watching the
Is $1900 too much for Re-bath?
Sunday, 27 January 2008 10:53 P GMT-06
My tub is pink. It used to be white, like two weeks ago, but not it is pink. The glaze or finish that the developer used to make it white has all bubbled up and peeled off.So I got an estimate from Re-bath Chicago, via Home Finishers . It was a hard
I'm an S.O.B.
Sunday, 27 January 2008 9:24 P GMT-06
Much delayed, but thank you to the Lovely Liz Strauss for making me an SOB last week. Yep, she thinks I'm a Successful and Outstanding Blogger. Thanks for the recognition, Liz! P.S. Liz has threatened to make me famous this year. You've been
A MacBooking I will go...
Thursday, 24 January 2008 5:40 P GMT-06
I've been so busy this week, that I haven't missed my laptop too much. I have missed it. No computer and no TV makes me twitch a little, but lucky for me I have mobile internet on my phone. Given the weather has been so lousy and below freezi
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 9:34 A GMT-06
Okay, don't make me a match, I made a match. And, no, not a romantic match either, but a business match. But not even a traditional hire business match, but a "Holy cow, I bet you two would be great collaborators!"Introducing: Hugh and
My d'var, the best I can remember it.
Monday, 21 January 2008 1:45 P GMT-06
So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter, th
The Saga of the missing MacBook
Monday, 21 January 2008 1:29 P GMT-06
I guess if it is resolved in less than 18 hours, it isn't really a saga. But after an amazingly fun time at my nephew's birthday party, we were loading the cars and I was heading to the train station. And... um... wait... where's my backp
D'var recap
Friday, 18 January 2008 11:41 P GMT-06
So from the notes in the previous post, I pulled together an outline of a d'var, gave it once to Spidey (my cat) and headed over to my synagogue. When I started to walk in the door, I saw a car in the Rabbi's parking spot. Rabbi Schaalman'
Shabbat = time for reflection --> less bitterness
Friday, 18 January 2008 5:05 P GMT-06
Here are the notes that I hope to turn into a conversation after I read Torah tonight. Thanks to Frume Sarah for the inspiration... oh and thanks to Rashi, too.Ah the bitter waters... Well, this is the first of the three complaint/rebuke cycle. Ex. 1
1 down, 8 to go.
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:44 P GMT-06
I think that my article got turned over for copy editing, whew. That just leaves some Hebrew, a sermon, a grant, a birthday party and some vagueness to focus in on. I'm getting excited for Hamburg and making a to do list for that trip: haircut, d
(not) Good with ambiguity
Monday, 14 January 2008 11:43 P GMT-06
I'm very overwhelmed this week. A number of deadlines at the end of the week and other things that I'm waiting to have clear up. It's like knowing that a rainbow is coming, you can feel it, and being anxious that the skies are still cloud
My Shrapnel - a must read blog
Sunday, 13 January 2008 9:19 A GMT-06
Hat tip to Jewlicious on this find. Only two posts, but I can't wait for more from Gila who is posting essays she wrote after surviving a homicide bombing in Jerusalem. The blog is called My Shrapnel and seriously had me laughing out loud. Here
A must read
Saturday, 12 January 2008 1:16 P GMT-06
I found this reading Jacki Danicki's blog today, a must read post about learning life-skills. Things I'm very grateful that we were taught at University Skills. We all knew how to sit through a music performance or a play. I think we all lea
Resolutions and stuff
Saturday, 12 January 2008 12:05 P GMT-06
I'm a bit late to this party, since it is the 12th of January already, but what about my resolutions? Goals? Stretch goals? Habits to change? for 2008... what about those?I got together with some girlfriends earlier this week to make collages the
So? What's next?
Saturday, 12 January 2008 11:39 A GMT-06
I've been trying to keep moving through my to do list which has meant little writing here. It doesn't mean I've spent every moment writing like I should, but that I feel guilty when I'm not making progress on my to-do list, so I also
Sweet.
Thursday, 10 January 2008 5:38 P GMT-06
I'm going to Germany in February for the first time ever and meeting my colleagues in Europe. Hooray! I'm excited to meet the faces behind the names and word is that they are excited to meet the women behind the Friday5 emails.
Whew
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 5:42 P GMT-06
I found out in the last couple days that Shebrew.com is no longer. Hopefully it is just a blip in the hosting fee, but it might really be gone. I twittered about it and was reminded that the internet is archived via the WayBack Machine.I was able to
Tale as old as time
Saturday, 5 January 2008 2:03 P GMT-06
P.S. If the music from Beauty and the Beast played a part of your teen experience in marching band or show choir, consider this a warning. You're emotions are completely tied up in that movie and you'll probably get sucker-punched by memory.I
Back from Zombie living
Saturday, 5 January 2008 1:54 P GMT-06
Okay, I'm almost officially well.Cough, cough, hack, hack.Almost.The short of it is I came home from work last Thursday, wrote a couple blog posts, wrote a massive personal to do list, and then went to bed. In the morning everything hurt. Joints,
Off-hand to in-depth
Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:38 P GMT-06
I made an off-hand comment at the end of a post asking Hugh if a Singelringen was a social object. Linda from Singelringen did some Googling to better understand it, I got tons (for me) of comments about it and I thought it was the end of the st
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