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Guess who is going to stay up all night and STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDY?

Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:24 P GMT-06
Me!  The biggest dork in Chicago!  Two years in a row!  Hunkering down with the Shure Kehilla for Tikkun Leyl Shavuot.  Yep, it is that time of year again, when the Jews remember receiving the ten commandmants.  To celebrate
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Plumbling by candlelight.

Tuesday, 30 May 2006 9:08 P GMT-06
It is bizarre how total silence can wake you up.  That silence that only exists when the power is out in the whole neighborhood.  That silence of no air conditioner, no buzzing fridge, no radio, no ceiling fan.  That silence woke me up
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Sorry for the spam.

Monday, 29 May 2006 1:50 P GMT-06
Apparently my gmail addy book got ripped off by a spam bot and I've been unknowingly torturing people with promises of cheap software and cialis pills. Sorry about that everyone.  I'm running some virus stuff to try and fix it.  A McAffee
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Take my manuscript, please.

Friday, 26 May 2006 3:43 P GMT-06
The hot news from Book Expo America is two fold. 1.  Blooks are hot.  That is Blogs or Bloggers becoming Books or Authors.  (Thanks for Becky for that article.) 2.  Religious titles are hot.   Thanks to Dan Brown and t
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And it is now summer.

Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:15 P GMT-06
When Jenna was visiting me on Monday night, I stopped by her hotel and said, "Don't you have a jacket?"  It was chilly on Monday, you needed a jacket or something.  Nevermind that it is May and this is Chicago, you need a little s
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When did I get so damn... conservative?

Wednesday, 24 May 2006 10:24 P GMT-06
After reading through the other articles in Shebrew this month, I had a moment or two or five of shock.  Oh my god.  I've become the conservative sex writer.  The conservative relationship writer.  All those years of Cosmopolitan
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Wasn't that fun.

Tuesday, 23 May 2006 9:44 P GMT-06
I am truly blessed to have friends around the country, around the world in fact, that I can see once a year or once every five years and feel like we've been meeting for coffee everyday.  Last night was one of those dinners.  A good friend
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Shebrew Sex Issue

Monday, 22 May 2006 1:46 P GMT-06
The editors are publishing the online zine as I type, but my article is up over at Shebrew. Shmuley and the Single Girl:  Kosher Sex?  
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Technorati and Edelman--why it (maybe) mattered when I broke the internet.

Monday, 22 May 2006 8:19 A GMT-06
Other than just worrying about blogger egos, now I see why it might have mattered when I broke the internet earlier this month.  Edelman and Technorati are partnering to get Technorati into languages other than english and japanese.  And wh
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Strange dream details

Monday, 22 May 2006 6:45 A GMT-06
Okay, two strange details from my dream.  Possibly brought on my the yummy burrito I had at Blind Faith cafe last night. Watchng a documentary or maybe in real life, but through cameras.  A fish, the one that swims on it's side with the ey
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I'm alive.

Sunday, 21 May 2006 3:30 P GMT-06
I made a quick trip downstate for a wedding and celebration.  It was a fun night with lots of old and new friends.  I have ceased being "Leah, Cathy's friend the comic" and am now "Leah."  A subtle, but wonderful sh
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My Michael by Amos Oz

Friday, 19 May 2006 10:48 P GMT-06
Let me share some sentences from My Michael by Amos Oz.  Yes, another in my long list of Israeli novels.  Another dark love story.  One I enjoyed, but didn't always have a pencil on hand.  These aren't all my favorite sentences, j
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Three new holes, no hot water in the shower.

Friday, 19 May 2006 6:20 P GMT-06
Sound familiar?  We made another go at fixing some pipes today.  And it was decided that the 8 feet of pipe in my place that weren't replaced before should be replaced.  I found out at 7:45 this morning.  I was pretty good humored
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A pre-Shabbat WHAT THE F&*$?

Friday, 19 May 2006 10:00 A GMT-06
Hat tips to Jewlicious and Kesher Talk for this one.  Iran wrote a law a couple years ago outlining yellow badges for Jews to wear.  Now their president is pushing it through the legal channels. Yes.  Seriously.  Iran wants the J
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Check it out: Duke's Tails

Friday, 19 May 2006 8:26 A GMT-06
I've mentioned before that I occasionally book travel for a national brand spokesanimal. Well, that spokesanimal is Duke.  As in "Roll that beautiful bean footage."  Jay's dog from Bush's Baked Beans.  Anyway, Duke wrote a
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Making art and stuff.

Thursday, 18 May 2006 6:46 P GMT-06
Yesterday I was able to spend the day at the Hyde Park Art Center making art.  It was a prize for participating in Creativity Month at work--remember the Goat?  So it was a wonderful three hours drawing, coloring, chopping, and glueing.&nbs
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I'm not chewing rocks.

Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:20 P GMT-06
In better news, I learned my Hebrew this year much better than I'm willing to give myself credit.  I don't sound like I'm chewing on rocks and I can read.  My accent isn't so bad, I can conjugate verbs okay, I can learn words with some faci
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"I'm allergic to new restaurants" and other fibs

Tuesday, 16 May 2006 9:30 P GMT-06
R:  Are you waiting for something? L:  I can't eat.  Sometimes I can't eat at new restaurants. R:  Oh. L:  It's a thing.  It drives my parents crazy.  Sometimes at new restaurants my throat closes up and I can't
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A few thoughts on cooking, TV, and the internet.

Monday, 15 May 2006 10:20 P GMT-06
First off, I'd like to say thank you to Professor Gray.  He's been teaching a Writing for the Internet course for awhile now and has a unit on blogs.  Students are required to read a blog for a week and report back.  In case they don't
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Happy Mother's Day Mom, Sister, Aunt, Grandma, Friends....

Sunday, 14 May 2006 9:59 P GMT-06
The day is almost over and I haven't managed to get my own mom on the phone or my sister the new mom.  Or any moms I know.  I saw some moms this morning at shul and wished them a happy mother's day.  But I missed the mail deadline for
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Looking for bloggers!

Saturday, 13 May 2006 9:35 A GMT-06
Have you followed any or all of my shopping at $1000 Experiment?  It has been me and a few girlfriends--spending imaginary money as an exercise in imagination growth and self-fulfilling prophecy and fun and dreaming.  One blogger has finish
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How did you find me?

Friday, 12 May 2006 8:15 P GMT-06
One of the best things about being obsessed with checking my three statistics sites is the referral log.  Especially now that Blog City has done something to make us even more Google Friendly.  Thanks guys! Here are some of the best recent
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The internet ate our granpas

Friday, 12 May 2006 4:03 P GMT-06
Last night Ronnie and I were trading stories about our scientist grandfathers.   Today I hopped online and found that the internet ate our grandpas.  Their science, since it was pre-1995, does not exist on the internet.  Yeah, the
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Sentence Sharing.

Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:04 P GMT-06
Do you have a habit that you think is totally normal, but when you explain it to someone else it starts to sound wierd.  In a Sex In The City they called it Secret Single something or other.  Things you do, because you live alone and you da
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Accidentally Jewish (The Euphorix Article)

Thursday, 11 May 2006 8:48 P GMT-06
“Nice to meet you, I’m Leah.”   “Are you a new member to the synagogue?”   “No, I haven’t joined yet.”   “What synagogue do you belong to?”   “Leah
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