oh weekend end. its passover! jared celebrated his first passover with me at our friendly neighborhood rabbi's house-- it was really fun and i felt all warmie and sweetie on this little man who i'm making my man. we found out from another attendee that there is in fact a rabbi in town who will marry a mix-couple. good news. also, strange to ( Read more... )

i'm engaged to be married. say... next summer? with some kind of ceremony probably in vermont. though also probably in oregon too. two ceremonies. the chuckle head with whom i've made this arrangement is none other than jared englund, my summer sweetheart from when i was 15/16 and would visit oregon in the summer. a year and a half ago we ( Read more... )

Luba is asleep on the couch, i've got movies and gluten free pizza. and beer. tomorrow is st. patrick's day, and i've got no meara, my favorite wild irish rose. i'm craving some pipes and fiddles and little girls dancing jigs. my parents are getting married. that is, my mother and the man she's been with for the last 8 years are finally tying ( Read more... )

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several days of spending most the day alone: i'd say its good for me if i wasn't so goddamn bored. jobs interviews and the occasional interpreting gig are my only obligations, and then i come home and think about new ways to make myself a better person. been reading little eastern philosophy things, setting up classes for the future (intro to ( Read more... )

its one existential crisis after another. my parents are here. my mom is wonderful. i'm in a bathrobe, having called in sick to a training session that really is not so informative. should i feel guilty? well, my head hurts from wine tasting yesturday. having parents here makes everything so decadent. and oregon really does have some ( Read more... )

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in oregon there are volcanoes. and volcanic activity. and hot springs. yes, this is what we are most interested by kids, the hot springs. in case you were wondering, this involves a wooden tub with a spigot that when the cork is pulled from it, boiling hot water pours down into your tub and you mix in cold river water and then... you sit in the ( Read more... )

how much could really happen since last time... oh wait, everything ( Read more... )

i went swimming yesturday at the river in lincoln. holy christ, its been a while, but my heart still knew how to get to those waters... i feel like i've been to so many spots, that i can never remember really where any of them are, but i found this one that we went to a long time ago, with donny and meara and a guy in light blue underwear, i can't ( Read more... )