jeeperstseepers: Apparently referring to a person in authority in the third person when talking to them is not just a Jewish thing.
jeeperstseepers: I was awfully confused when my student who was here before referred to "the professor." After the second time, I realized she was talking about me and not asking a general question about how professors ( Read more... )

Right, so yet another episode of Glee has frustrated me to the point that I ended up doing a re-write. Not this past week's silly Christmas episode, but the episode from the week before. Dunno if any of you are interested, but just in case, I'm posting it here and I'm putting the rest under a cut in case any of you are behind on the show.

( Glee-write for 2x09, Special Education )

For my next trick, I will re-write the latest episode of Glee by making it...not happen at all. Because it was a steaming pile of suck.

The only thing I would do is pull the absolutely brilliant ( Cut for Spoiler )

I’ve had strange relationships with TV shows before. As many of you know, in the final years of both Buffy and Angel, I continued to be obsessed with both shows, but all of the love I’d had for them had turned into hate. I didn’t “love to hate” them, since I hated hating them, but I also couldn’t stop watching. It was weird. And annoyed a lot of ( Read more... )

So I think I deserve some kind of award for managing to keep a completely straight face whilst having the following conversation with my boss ( Read more... )

I spent this past Shabbos in New Jersey at the home of the aunt and uncle whose daughter got married last Sunday and met many new people at the meals from the groom's side of the family. I had variations on this conversation at least three times ( Read more... )

So I'm back from my trip to Europe ( Read more... )

A Poem: By Me, written on the subway this morning ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, but I am incensed.

Palestinians Riot to Protest Synagogue Reopening

Is this Synagogue in Gaza? The West Bank? Is it even in the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem? No, it is not. It is in the Old City of Jerusalem, in the main square of the Jewish Quarter. The synagogue is one of many that the Jordanians destroyed (after promising ( Read more... )

A comment on my last post reminded me that I never told you all about how I met Matt Bomer. Some of you saw the pics on Facebook, but I never actually told the whole story ( Read more... )