New books by a favorite author, it's a happy thing.

I've only read a couple of her books (what was translated into Hebrew - I could never find anything by her in English around here, not even the ones that were translated), so I'm just glad that I have so much more waiting for me, when I do get to find it. I really loved the few that I got to read.

Also, Teppy, I had an idea for a subject for a drabble (and it even has a "something you may like" side to it, I don't mind admitting that): hands.

I thought about it as a possible topic while washing the floor at my apartment on Friday. I was squeezing (I'm not sure that's the word) the mop (I'm sure that's not the word, but I can't think of a better one), to take the water out of it so that I can wipe the floor with a clean dry one, and remembered how my grandmother used to do that, with her long beautiful damaged-from-decades of hard work hands, which were stronger than mine even when she was in her seventies and I a healthy teenager. And then I thought about how, after my grandmother passed away, my mom started to pick up a few hands gestures of hers, gestures that she never used before.

So, anyway, at the moment that I thought "if I could write¹, that's what I'd write about", I thought to offer it up here as a subject. Of course, I didn't think I'll force you to read so many words in order to get to that idea.

¹ Yeah, in that Hebrew sense of 'write' as I explained before!

connie -- what was the book?

Nilly, I love that idea. Hell, for those of us who "talk" with our hands, not using them is excruciating. I find that if I sit on my hands, or make a conscious effort to not use them, my speech slows down and I develop a tiny stammer. Odd.

Thanks, deb.

I've said it more than once - if my hands were tied, I'd be unable to shout for help. That's how much I use my hands when I talk.

(slightly off-topic) Nilly, any idea when you're coming out? (edit: to the West Coast, I mean. Heh.)

t Natter

any idea when you're coming out?

Nothing specific yet. The dates of the exams are still not final, and I'm still not sure of people's schedules, so I don't know anything final yet. If there are dates that are bad for you, and I know that there's pretty much a plan to kidnap me and load me on a car to SF (not that I have any objections to that!), then that's the time to let me know - Allyson and Kristen have dates when they won't be in LA, and I already know I should plan around those, in order to make sure we'll get to meet and hang out.

t /Natter

There is definitely a plan afoot (or a-car or a-Jeep). I'm hoping to be in Minneapolis for juliana's wedding at the end of August, but I'm keeping September basically open for you, until you know.

And it isn't completely off-topic nattering; I want to give you books.

juliana's wedding at the end of August

Dates, please? Or, once you have them?

I want to give you books.

Wheeeeeeee! Yay me!

Heh.

I'll double-check with juliana. It's possible I won't make it to Minneapolis, since money is very tight right now and will be until Nic gets a job, but I'm absolutely intending to go if it's possible. I think it's the last week in August.

Could you let me know, when things are finalized?

The one thing I know I have to do is be back in Israel on the middle of September for Rosh Hashana. So there's a definite end deadline for everything, and I'm not sure yet about the timing of the beginning of the trip. Things are still being settled, and one of the factors is definitely people's schedules.