So, yeah, I totally skipped class this morning to bake challot and deli roll (puff pastry filled with turkey salami, with lots of mustard) for Shabbat. I'm finally getting the hang of cooking for Shabbat during the week - it's tough to plan when I'm juggling so much. The challot are gorgeous, I hope they taste as good as they look ( Read more... )

Oy frickin' vey ( Read more... )

Ok, so I have always maintained that Jewish girls are the sexiest in world, and now Esquire magazine agrees. Scarlett Johannson (mother Jewish), has been named the sexiest woman alive.

One hundred points to the Jewish girl team - we have Scarlett Johannson AND Natalie Portman (Hershlag), oh, and me of course.

So, just as I was remembering the (creepy) details of my dream, I saw that Sarah had posted about her crazy dream. Mine is creepier and not very happy, but here it is. I was in the distant future, where there are spaceships and so on, and I was on the crew of a spaceship. One of our crew (a younger girl) had gone missing so we went to find her in ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here and thinking about those things that I have only just experienced. Only now do I understand how something can be so beautiful and missed that it makes you cry. I've missed people before and places too, but never something as deep as I've felt in the last few moments. I don't even know what it is, but I think I will soon. It's ( Read more... )

So, not only am I invited to four weddings this summer, I just realized that I have to get presents for the couples ( Read more... )

I am wistful today. I wish I was in Eugene, or in Vancouver, or in Jerusalem ( Read more... )

So, I went to the Hillel community board meeting (old people that tell the college students what to do), and I saw my favorite member of the board - Jeff Jaffee. He's rockin and awesome. He has a HumVee and a tank. A FUCKIN' TANK! It's crazy. In any case, after the meeting, he came up to me, handed me a piece of paper and said the following ( Read more... )

After a pep talk from the goy crush I summoned up the last of my courage and banished the last of my pride, and called spring break guy. We talked for an hour and fifteen minutes, and I accepted that he wouldn't be visiting me in B'ham, though we did talk a little bit about spring break. I felt pretty good about it. I have decided that I can't and ( Read more... )

Ah! The High Holy Days! Rockin' fun!
I met a charming guy...Jewish, smart, witty, liked by my father...who lives in Portland. He goes to Reed. Why is it that prefection lives in Oregon?!?

Gah!