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November 2005
Um, so, yeah and stuff.
Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:58 P GMT-06
I thought I would have lots to say tonight. I don't really. The day started with some fiery emails on a listserve I belong to, bleh. Then I had someone I thought might be interested say he'd "reevaluated and decided we wouldn't
Keep in mind, I have geek tendencies.
Tuesday, 29 November 2005 6:19 P GMT-06
I have geek tendencies. Not innovative geek tendencies--no I-Pod, no crackberry, no wireless internet, no battery that holds a charge for my laptop, no stereo. I don't own my own domain or host my own email. Sometimes I can barely c
It seems to be working.
Monday, 28 November 2005 11:13 P GMT-06
The Mayoress of Blog City chided me today for blaming my computers TIF and cookies and whatever on the new editor. My posts are indeed posting, they just weren't for me.
No need to click on November 2005, cause you really are seeing the latest
Maybe I don't wanna....
Monday, 28 November 2005 6:39 P GMT-06
I spent all day trying to be spontaneous. A friend from an old improv class has a show tonight--a show that you need 25 people at, you they won't let you have the show. Nice one Second City. I've been through it with Ronnie et al a
Category: Job Stuff
Mental Note
Monday, 28 November 2005 4:19 P GMT-06
If I am going to
a. Post another online personal ad.
b. Respond from my real email addy that is totally google-able.
I should not
1. Make the first blog post Mr. Potential sees a mile long thesis on shabbat services.
Because h
Category: Jewish Stuff Dating Stuff
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Shabbat at my shul--all the news for my jew debut
Monday, 28 November 2005 9:39 A GMT-06
Okay, so you've decided to brave the elements and come see me carry the Torah, hear me say the Shema, and experience shabbat services at a synagogue. What do you need to know? I'm going to tell you some things--but know that I'm not tryin
Category: Jewish Stuff
test test... where are my posts?
Sunday, 27 November 2005 6:03 P GMT-06
Blog-city changed blog editors today and now my new posts aren't posting. This is a test post. I apologize to everyone on my mailing list.
The Money Pit AKA Why did I buy this condo?
Sunday, 27 November 2005 11:03 A GMT-06
I have a $400 Special Assessment payable over the next three months and now there is water seeping up into my hallway. Up. That means the leak is under me, but I'm on the ground floor so there is no getting under me to fix it.&
Category: Weight Stuff Condo Stuff
Five hundred, twenty mumble thousand, 600 minutes
Sunday, 27 November 2005 9:27 A GMT-06
That is actually how many people were in line last night at the Landmark in Evanston and many, many, many were jews. How do I know? Kippot galore, covered hair galores, "mazel tov's" flying through the air, and they all tried to go to t
Non Scale Victory followed by radio silence
Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:46 P GMT-06
TOnight I celebrated the early close of the day before Thanksgiving by going shopping with my upstairs neighbor. We spent three hours in only two stores--Fielene's Basement and Nordstrom Rack. I tried on only one item of clothing (and shoes, of c
Traditional Conversion Celebrations include tortillas and mango margaritas, ask my rabbi.
Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:41 P GMT-06
Tonight my friend Erin took me out for a tradition jewish meal of tortillas, salsa, and mango margaritas. Here is the most wild thing I learned all night. Do you know who the Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year was in 1937 as selected by Look maga
The Christmas Test, #118
Monday, 21 November 2005 9:49 P GMT-06
I boldly told Ronnie, just under a year ago, that giving up Christmas wouldn't be hard. After all, it isn't like I ever decorated my home as an adult. It was one of his first questions, somewhere after, "What do you mean studying with a rabb
Category: Jewish Stuff
To follow up, yes, I went to the gym.
Monday, 21 November 2005 9:40 P GMT-06
I went to the gym. If you are noting the time in between posts, you are correct. I barely went to the gym. I walked over, got on the eliptical trainer for thirty minutes (watched an episode of Friends, the one with Brad Pitt), did some sit-ups,
Category: Weight Stuff
Go to the gym, Leah, go to the gym.
Monday, 21 November 2005 8:13 P GMT-06
Dear Leah on WW for the second time who still shops at Lane Bryant exclusively,GOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYMGOTOTHEGYM.GOTOTHEGYM!I'm just sayin
Category: Weight Stuff
Some notes on the weekend.
Sunday, 20 November 2005 5:34 P GMT-06
1. For my first Shabbat as a Jew, my friend Jo from Shocker Kahn joined me for services. She reportedly enjoyed the service and I think felt welcomed by our little corner of the reform movement. It was really great to have a new friend with me
Category: Jewish Stuff Weight Stuff
Two weird things about my body.
Saturday, 19 November 2005 10:42 A GMT-06
Weird thing number one: I am getting feeling back in my toes!!!! I wore flats all week, just like my doctor said, and last night I noticed a new sensation in my feet. Sensation--not numbness, not lack of, but sensation. It really was reversible
Rock N Roll Flashback
Friday, 18 November 2005 7:37 P GMT-06
Some of my readers who have been around for awhile, might remember a guy I dated briefly named Rock 'n' Roll. His name came up on Wednesday when we were talking about Jewish names. Oh, I used to date a guy named "Classic Rock" but he we
Category: Jewish Stuff Dating Stuff
People tend to be better than I expect.
Friday, 18 November 2005 9:10 A GMT-06
An open letter to all the strangers who went to Nordstrom Rack last night and didn't steal my menorah from the handicap stall in the Women's bathroom:Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What kind of a flake leaves a perfectly good menorah in a bat
Category: Jewish Stuff
How I became a Jew on Wednesday morning.
Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:09 P GMT-06
It has been hard to stop talking about the actual conversion long enough to write about it. So here it goes.... It started at an unfamiliar shul in the suburbs. Barbara and I made good time and got there right after all of my rabbis & my cant
Category: Jewish Stuff
I'm a flake, holy shit, I am a flake.
Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:52 P GMT-06
Today I left something in the bathroom of a store and it took me five hours to realize that I left it there. Five hours. FIVE FUCKING HOURS. I called the store, I called the chain's national number. Please, please, get a janitor to pick up, s
oy!
Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:16 A GMT-06
Like I said earlier today, I'm jewish now. I just got home from a neighbors party and before that was on the phones with my sister and other friends. I can't believe it. I'm not converting anymore, I converted. I'm jewish.I'm jewish. I'm a
Category: Jewish Stuff
I am a jew!
Wednesday, 16 November 2005 2:34 P GMT-06
It's official, as of shortly before 11AM this morning, I became a Jew.
Category: Jewish Stuff
Tomorrow's the big day--I'll be a new jew!
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:45 P GMT-06
I did not do this for the jokes, but occasionally funny things slip out. Usually just using the word jew is funny to me. Maybe the way it feels in your mouth. Jew. Jew. Jew. The kid's a jew. You'll be a new jew. The jew thing. How j
Category: Jewish Stuff
Yeah, that's right, I write.
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 6:46 P GMT-06
Hot on the heels of last night's "Should I get back on stage?" was a great email today. From an upstart magazine for Jewish women--an invitation (or acceptance) to write 1000 words on my conversion, specifically converting without a nice
When I lived in...
Monday, 14 November 2005 6:59 P GMT-06
Lately, I have found myself telling a lot of stories about places I used to live. When I was in London I... When I was in Colorado I... When I was in Argentina...I think that once upon a time in Colorado, someone said to me, "God Leah, did any
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