One of the classes I'm taking this semester is American Judaism, with Jonathan Sarna, who literally wrote the book on American Judaism. It is an incredible class. For starters, I love history, and Sarna is an incredible teacher and lecturer. I sit in class and I just listen and take notes and absorb. The thing that's really incredible about this ( Read more... )

this entry has potential to be long and rambling...it also has the potential to be really short and say absolutely nothing.

home is weird. scratch that. home sucks. until tonight, i was really ( Read more... )

i've been feeling rather introspective lately. not in a good way or a bad way, just i'm at a really good place in my life, and i think about it. maybe i think too much. c'est la vie.
( 40 questions of 2004 )

i'm home, for the first time since rosh hashanah. then, i had only been ( Read more... )

Shalom y'all! So after an almost 3 month hiatus, I decided it was time ( Read more... )

i decided that livejournal has just given me too much pain and trouble in the past several months...not to mention WAY too much distraction from things that i need to be doing. so this is it. there are better ways to stay in touch with my friends, and to know what's going on in their lives.

peace out cub scouts

i have a new email-mfarber@brandeis.edu

sitting in the eisner staff lounge...feeling meh. i had a day off today, really good time at sarah's. ate sooooo much good food. and i saw my parents, which made me a lot happier than i thought it would. and we didn't fight at all. we went shopping at bed bath and beyond for school stuff...sheets and towels and whatnot ( Read more... )

camp's good. i need my day off tomorrow so badly, i'm exhausted. it's not that my kids are frustrating, i'm just exhausted. i wish i was going home for it, i want time away from all of camp just to decompress, and to sleep in my own bed. but sarah's will be fun ( Read more... )

i'm on a day off, at krystal's house in westport with her and robbie...camp's awesome. really, just having lots and lots of fun. half my girls are brats, the other half are absolute sweethearts, but i do love them all, even when i'm ready to kill the half that are brats. i've been really frustrated sometimes by it, but you walk away, and when you ( Read more... )