Happy New Year, Nilly and Hil!
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Sep 26, 2006 4:44:26 am PDT #299 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
SailAweigh - Sep 26, 2006 4:45:00 am PDT #300 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yes, and Hil! ::thwaps own forehead::
Kat - Sep 26, 2006 4:46:15 am PDT #301 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
nilly, it's hellish. but thanks for asking. My students are wonderful, but my grad classes are tough and I'm overwhelmed. unsurprisingly.
Nilly - Sep 26, 2006 4:46:23 am PDT #302 of 10001
Swouncing
Hil! Sail! Lee! You too!
Hil, do you eat apples with honey on Rosh Hashana, as a sign for a sweet year? It's yummy, even if it doesn't sign anything.
[Edit: oh, Kat, I'm sorry about the hellish. But it's good to read that the one thing you really can't control, the students, is working out. Good luck with the un-overwhelming process. Or is it dis-overwhelming?]
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2006 4:50:07 am PDT #303 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, do you eat apples with honey on Rosh Hashana, as a sign for a sweet year? It's yummy, even if it doesn't sign anything.
Yep. Very yummy.
This year, my mom found these weird apples that have pinkish streaks going all through the inside, so they looked really pretty sliced.
sarameg - Sep 26, 2006 4:52:57 am PDT #304 of 10001
Kat! Miss you! And still have no idea how on earth you do mornings. I got up early (for me) and now can barely look at my monitor without my head screaming. Ah well.
The signs advertising sukkahs are back! As are the sukkahs. The one I find the most amusing is the blue tarp one behind a bagel bakery in a strip mall. There are some rather elegant ones I see around the neighborhood. And then there are the blue tarp ones.
Cashmere - Sep 26, 2006 5:13:59 am PDT #305 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
There are some rather elegant ones I see around the neighborhood. And then there are the blue tarp ones.
My neighbors have a nice one. I hope the weather holds for them--it's always nice to hear them laughing and talking into the evening when the weather is nice. It's the week of my birthday this year.
Steph L. - Sep 26, 2006 5:16:16 am PDT #306 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Hi Nilly! L'Shanah Tova! Thank you for the lovely e-card!
Nilly - Sep 26, 2006 5:16:50 am PDT #307 of 10001
Swouncing
I can't tell you how I enjoy the mental image of Sukkot all over the place, spread over the most unexpected (for me) places. I mean, I love seeing them all around here (walking around in Jerusalem during that holiday is wonderful, for example), but the always-existing (for me) surprise of hearing about them all the way across the ocean is even better.
[Edit: thanks, Teppy!]
sarameg - Sep 26, 2006 5:30:45 am PDT #308 of 10001
Baltimore has a huge jewish community (I think I read somewhere it is the second largest in the US, but I might be making that up) and I live right on the edge of it.
Down south, we used to joke about there being a baptist church on every corner. Driving down Park Heights here, there pretty much is a synagogue on every corner. Sometimes two. And then there is Hannukah house....