That Leah Jones

I started this blog in November 2003 and called it "Leah in London."  At the time, I was managing a student residence in London for IES.  This was an easy way for me for people to keep up with me without me sending annoying mass emails or spending a lot of money on international phone calls.  When I moved home from London in March of 2004, I changed the title to "Leah in Chicago" and kept blogging away.  When I started studying Judaism, I added the subtitle or alternative title "Accidentally Jewish." 

I'm that Leah Jones.

• got a degree in chemistry from Millikin University 
• studied in Argentina with IES La Plata
• managed the hotline at the Rape Intervention Team in Durango, Colorado
• ran Camp Snyder when it was all men at Fort Lewis College
• interned with Bike-Aid when Just Act! was still called Overseas Development Network and Bike-Aid hadn't moved Global Exchange
• found out that catnip is an effective insecticide when I participated in the Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWISE) at Iowa State
• never made it all the way across the monkey bars at University School
• went to drum major camp and oboe camp at Indiana State University
• presented a Top 33 program at NACURH
• managed an ice cream parlor in Ravenswood
• was includeded in the anthology of inspirational stories for RAs
• writes for Shebrew and Jewish Fringe
• really loves Neighborhoodies and should've bought stock
• works at Edelman in the me2revolution in Edelman Digital
• went to Tel Aviv One in March of 2006
• produced "Little Revolutions" in March of 2003 at the Single File Chicago festival
• did stand up comedy in Chicago and took all the classes at Annoyance Theater in 2005
• became a Jew in November 2005
• celebrated my bat mitzvah in March 2007
• participated in the second ROI120 in July 2007 and in June 2008
  
• first used the "internet" in the early 90s on IDEAnet
• is on Twitter and Flickr, a lot.

Disclosure

I work at Edelman Public Relations.  I try not to blog about work, but since I'm in the me2revolution Edelman Digital, sometimes I do.  I don't get paid to write about stuff, not here and (so far) not anywhere.  If I write about a client, I'll tell you.  I don't have any ads--cause I'm too lazy to set them up, same reason I rarely redesign the page or add images to posts.  Lazy. 

I lean left politically, I'm a zionist, I'm an observant, liberal jew.  I love chicago, I love my friends.  When I write about things I love, I probably wasn't asked to write about it.  Seriously, look at my stats, nobody really needs my help to sell their stuff.  I write about jewish stuff, dating stuff, writing stuff, friend stuff, weather stuff, event stuff, weight stuff.