I leave for Turkey and Greece in less than 72 hours. And while I should be studying for my Chumash Midterm, I am more inclined to make multiple lists of items I should take along. Please feel free to provide me with the helpful, or not so helpful, suggestions.

My inner procrastinator thanks you!

As it is 2007 and I am procrastinating instead of studying for my AP History test, I feel the need to act a bit reconteurish and share my hopes for this coming secular year ( Read more... )

The History Boys rocked my little Jewish socks. Or I should say brown tights since it was cold and socks would not have kept me warm. (See Jenny, I am learning from your Russian ways.) Anyhow, I am an official Anglophile circa 1983 ( Read more... )

I have come up with a list of new Bruriah yearbook clubs... being that I cannot portray Bruriah in a negative light, I have resorted to mocking myself, which in theory might be mocking of the school. But at least it's indirect ( Read more... )

Today I gave into the consumer commercialism Mr. Gelman warned us about in AP History. I spent $100.00 on a pair of mini UGGS. That price seems a bit ridiculous; that and the fact that I bought something at the capitalist enterprise known as Nordstrom for the first time in my life ( Read more... )

It being before Yom Kippur, I decided it was time to confess all my egregious offenses of the past year ( Read more... )

Back to school can only mean one thing... loss of social life ( Read more... )

College touring is intense even if it is broken up by the occasional theater festival in some random mountain range or a visit to a candle store where people make candles solely in the shape of scarecrows ( Read more... )

I have had enough of Jacques Chirac. We all know he hates Israel. We all know he hates Jews. We all know he is petrified of the two triangles that together form the Jewish star. He has made his point... and yet I still get daily updates from www.honestreporting.com and www.camera.org telling me the dirty Frenchman is up to his old tricks ( Read more... )

Everyone: Send Danielle Szpilz a card.

If you have to ask why, call me.

And make sure to bake her a cake for her birthday. She'll need the cheering up this year.