they aren't actually reading the haftarah for parashat noah this year, because it's rosh hodesh and they're reading a different one instead. so i'm no longer doing that.

happy ( mountain day! )

i just met two '66 Chapinites at the door and took them on a walk around the house. they told me about their linen napkins, watching the Beatles on TV in the house mother's room, having to wear skirts to town and dinner and sign the late book if they came in after 8pm, playing bridge until 1 in the morning, and the recurring dream that they have ( Read more... )

Jerusalem is beautiful. My cousin Lielle is cute, and being the one person she's familiar with in a room of people she just barely knows is all sorts of fun and special. She invited me to her sixth birthday party in October :P.

please tell me something--anything--about your week.
ready, go . . .

my roommate and i have friendship bracelets to wear this summer, yaay.

(us for teh win. ♥)

so the hebrew calendar and the gregorian calendar are supposed to line up every 19 years or so, yes ( Read more... )

a)i wish i could create things: stories, poetry, music, art. i wish i could put my energy into something creative and productive.

b) i bought a book today! it's called Rashi's daughters. i'm hoping that it's good . . .i'm pretty dorkily excited about it. (Rashi? can I be him? or, you know, know enough Hebrew to study what he wrote? clearly not, ( Read more... )

please. do me a favor. hope very very much that it will not rain on saturday. or snow. or sleet or hail or "wintery mix." please please please ( Read more... )

a) i did it. yay ( Read more... )