Julia was building the Chrysler Building yesterday, with blocks. I am not quite sure how she knows about the Chrysler Building. She just does. It was still funny to hear a six year old who has never been to NY ask, "Mommy, how do you like my Chrysler Building?"

She may have a secret life in which she lives in the Big Apple, though. On 9/11/01, when the kids saw the footage of the WTC, she thought there was a fire and that we had to leave the house, because there was fire on TV (she wasn't quite 3 years old). When I explained that it was far away, and she asked where, I told her, and she said, quite indignantly, "New York Titty?!?" in a how-dare-they way.

Cashmere - happy birthday !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASHMERE!!!

Talked with Mom briefly this morning and she sounded good. Then she got attacked by a nurse wanting to do vitals and she said she would call me back.

I was actually not looking for another extension from the teacher. I was willing to skip the assignment and take the lower grade - but nooooooo, now I HAVE to do it since he has been so nice. Grrrrr.

I just found out that my assistant has not been released to come back to work. It will be at least another month (again, she has been out since March 24th). The person is who down from Boise helping me this week will not be available next month as she will be off on a two week vacation.

I need a big rock. Not sure if I want to throw it at someone or just hide under it.

Cindy, you clearly need to drop everything and move to New York. Your daughter's best interest demands it.

Well, clearly, it's her old stomping grounds, but I am so very Boston. I would love to take some nice vacations to NYC, and really get to know the city, but I'm far more likely to move to Maine, or somewhere in the Canadian maritimes than New York.

Maidengurl, I'm glad to hear that your mom is doing well. I picture her with the boa around her neck, rather than around the lamp, and the nurses jealous of her flair.

Happy Birthday, Cashmere!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASH AND MATT!!

So. Guess whose rehearsal dinner outfits are at the drycleaners? And guess whose drycleaners are CLOSED for Yom Kippur?

Fuck fuck fuck.

We're down an editor and print designer for Yom Kippur.

Sadly (and this is how goy I am), I had no idea why they were taking today off until one of them said they would "fast and pray that this is the last round of editing on this document."

Did I mention how big it is now? 450 pages. If it weren't for PDF, I don't know how I'd be doing this.

And the dictionary say "goy" is offensive. Is it "cracker" offensive, or N-word offensive?

I'm sorry, I grew up in a part of the country where Jews were a curiosity and had a population size roughly equivalent to the local Armenian and Lebanese communities. Which were larger than you'd expect for a city in the Mid-South.

So Aimee's post had me thinking, "People, this is what a Shabbat goy is for," but, not really intending to post that, I went off and googled it instead. Which is when I ran across this justification for warming oneself (on a Sabbath) at a fire kindled by a Gentile:

The reason seems to me this as we say, elsewhere [Talmud, Sabbath] that we reckon circumcision as an illness and can therefore do things otherwise forbidden on a Sabbath for a circumcised child] so every one is considered ill from the effects of cold: though they may not be really ill, yet they suffer from it

and it struck me, this is totally math. I mean, yeah, law in general is pretty mathy, but this! Finding an isomorphism between being cold and circumcision! Masterful.