found a quote on a friend's profile ( Read more... )

so I decided to go to two parties today.
work shmerk!!! I'm horrible. I know it. Next week's all-nighters will catch up with me. But man, life is too much fun to miss.

For the first time this year the enormous, crazy, extended family that is mine will not be gathering at grandma's house for Christmas. It's been a long-standing tradition. We would eat bean soup for lunch, lug in our bags of presents which the youngest family member would give out at the pace they see fit (the final effect seems as if we're ( Read more... )

What would you think if your Hebrew professor called you at 10 PM on a Friday night, on your cell phone, and to your perfectly civil question "how are you" answered "I'm in distress ( Read more... )

dear bass ( Read more... )

Last night I got accused of heresy ( Read more... )

The bellydance studio in San Anselmo has a free class on Thanksgiving morning, and it's called "sacred sweat," which is a cross between aerobics and "temple dancing" whatever that is.  And we sweat, and dance, and sing and yell and celebrate our bodies ( Read more... )

um, I kind of hate this holiday ( Read more... )

It's November, yes, but this is California, so we still go beaching ( Read more... )

and I am KICKING BACK ( Read more... )