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A few thoughts and a spoiler.

Sunday, 30 April 2006 9:06 P GMT-06
I finished The Name of The Rose this afternoon and all those monk died over... But first, Ronnie is back safe and sound from Israel.  Lucky me, it means that I can worry about things other than him being in Israel.  Although this trip I ba
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Leah Jones

Memo to Technorati: I'm not obessed with Craig.

Saturday, 29 April 2006 3:15 P GMT-06
I was checking my referral log, just like any good obsessed blogger will, and noticed that I had two referrals from Technorati searches on Craig Newmark's blog.  Craig from Craig's List (geeky) fame.  I assumed that these were links to the
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Saturday Matinee Alone

Saturday, 29 April 2006 12:11 P GMT-06
A few thoughts before I head off to a Saturday matinee all my myself.  I'm not saying that to invoke pity, I'm just taking a wild swerve my from regularly scheduled saturday afternoon rut.  Instead of staring at my kitchen, telling myself t
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Ghostwriting for a goat.

Friday, 28 April 2006 6:11 P GMT-06
It has been a fun couple days ghostwriting for a Goat.  For Number One Goat to be exact.  It was just a fun idea--I'll make a blog by a goat, in case the Powers That Be decide that a blog is appropriate for the Sell A Goat To Nancy pitch.&n
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My friends kick total ass

Friday, 28 April 2006 10:50 A GMT-06
On top of everyone who has become a MySpace friend of the Goat, a number of you have blogged for me. You all kick ass and make me feel loved. Mike at Hello NinjaJo at Shocker KahnLeah at Accidentally JewishTim over in his MySpaceOther Tim at Sound
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I'm not going....

Friday, 28 April 2006 8:04 A GMT-06
Apparently I'm not Jewish enough, not innovative enough, not leadershippy enough for ROI120.  I was not selected to attend ROI120 in Jerusalem this summer.  I'm bummed.  Apparently actually participating in the forums was not looked
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A strange favor.

Thursday, 27 April 2006 7:01 P GMT-06
Okay.  Here is the deal.  Tomorrow ends a very fun initiative at work:  Creativity Month. I have taken advantage and done a lot of the projects along the way.  I know the projects were more for, oh, account staff and not admins li
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Goat Heard?

Thursday, 27 April 2006 1:26 P GMT-06
I'd also like to share a new blog I'm working on. Number One Goat is the new SpokesGoat for the Goat Heard? campaign.  
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Strange MySpace Request.

Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:40 A GMT-06
First of all, I only have a paltry 30 some friends on MySpace.  Pretty lame.  However, a Goat that I'm working with only has me. Do me a favor MySpace users--go here www.myspace.com/numberonegoat and make this Goat your friend.
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Interfaith Dating

Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:49 P GMT-06
I got asked to write an article about interfaith dating from the POV of a convert.  Which, lets be honest, is the only point of view that I write from.  Truth be told, it wasn't easy to write and I'm not sure they will like what I wrote. I
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Maybe I need to read more from Slate.

Wednesday, 26 April 2006 9:53 P GMT-06
I haven't been able to put a finger on why I don't like Administrative Professional's Day.  Or Secretary's Week.  Or Support Staff Extravaganza.  It has just made me annoyed and grumpy.  It shouldn't make an admin grumpy to get a
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Work, weather, and disappointment.

Tuesday, 25 April 2006 8:34 P GMT-06
I was about to start writing a whiney little thing here about disappointment, today's weather and like at a big ol' company. Then I saw what Geoff (AKA Evan Dando) thought I should go and read.  This Is My Last Entry  Why I shut down my bl
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I won! I won!

Tuesday, 25 April 2006 5:58 P GMT-06
I won two tickets to see a taping of Conan O'Brien!  I won two tickets to see a taping of Conan O'Brien!
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Goodbye tango, hello hebrew.

Monday, 24 April 2006 10:41 P GMT-06
In my fantasy life, I am able to study tango and hebrew weekly.  In my reality life, I'm going to have to pick and after six months or so of tango, I'm going to switch to modern Hebrew.  I've gotten frustrated with my tango lessons.  W
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Just as I thought.

Monday, 24 April 2006 8:23 A GMT-06
I'd hypothesized, to friends if not online, the reasons for the delay in an answer from ROI120.  If you (you being the organizers) take into account all levels of observance of potential candidates, you have non-observant secular to observa
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Fried Cheesy Pork

Sunday, 23 April 2006 3:00 P GMT-06
Sometimes I joke that I miss fried cheesy pork the most. Thinking back, when have I ever eaten fried cheesy pork?  Really?  But last night it was actually on the menu at Nevin's in Evanston. (warning:  their site plays U2 very lou
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Giving blodd on Sunday morning.

Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:27 P GMT-06
This morning I skipped Hebrew school to go to a talk on interfaith families and then give blood.  I really meant to just stay at the talk for 20 minutes, but couldn't get myself out the door.  After the talk, I gave blood.  I had real
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Kind of a huge compliment.

Saturday, 22 April 2006 2:42 P GMT-06
It is kind of a huge compliment to get quoted from the bimah during Shabbat services.  Last night a girlfriend from temple had her public conversion ceremony.  The first I've been to since my own, I wept.  We all did.  All the con
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It is shabbat and still no word on Israel.

Friday, 21 April 2006 9:24 P GMT-06
"Leah, I have to know!  I read your blog... do you know?  Are you going to Israel?"  my good friend asked tonight.  Trust me, if I'd found out today during my crazyhecticnutsostickintheeye day at work, I would have broke
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Oops. Cut Pesach short a day. Crap.

Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:09 P GMT-06
So friends invited me out last night and I said, "Passover ended tonight, right?"  "Yeah" my friend said.  I agreed to meet them out for beers, they canceled, I went out for a burger and a beer on my own.  Had 
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Daring Rescue on Lake Shore Drive

Thursday, 20 April 2006 9:52 P GMT-06
This morning, I was involved in a daring rescue on Lake Shore Drive.  I was on the 136 Express bus, we were cruising south on Lake Shore Drive, somewhere near Diversey Harbor, when the bus went silent.  The engine stopped and the bus just c
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Nose in Book.

Wednesday, 19 April 2006 9:48 P GMT-06
Today on the way home from work, Israel celebrated 40 years as a nation.  Okay, the Israel in The Glory.  The book by Herman Wouk that I finished up on the way home form work today.  Real Israel is coming up on 60 years already in '08.
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The end of the book.

Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:04 P GMT-06
It is just about midnight and I have a terrible quandry.  I'm almost done with The Glory.  I started reading it on Saturday and it is only Tuesday night.   I've spent the last four days entrenched in the Yom Kippur War in the Is
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Reading about the bombing.

Tuesday, 18 April 2006 7:59 A GMT-06
Once again, I am reminded of Udi saying to me, "If we stopped and walked to the embassy every time there was a bomb in Israel, when would we get anything done?"  It was after the bombings in Madrid and I was taking my Spanish students
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I like the internet.

Monday, 17 April 2006 10:52 P GMT-06
A few things on the internet that I like today. 1.  God Hates Shrimp.  A parody site about enforcing part of leviticus without enforcing all of leviticus.  (You know, the part of the bible that people use against gays.) 2.  Wate
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