inviting him to a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The more I think about this, the weirder it seems.
I read the word "Kristallnacht" and lpaused on it before reading forward, thinking, "isn't that the night...." and then read the rest of your post. Ya, does seem weird. I suppose its a bit of "remember, so it doesn't happen again" type of thing?.?.
ION, I think I just sent a note to my local NPR volunteering services in the summer. Curious what, if anything, comes of it. Funny, they even mention on the volunteer page "Sound Editing". Much rather do that than filing or clerical duties. Tho, it makes me wonder, how much of their content is volunteers editing. Curious. We shall see if anything comes of it. I see it as a few goals. 1) help my local NPR, since money is tight, give in other ways. 2) get some 'behind the scenes' on how it's done. I haven't done radio since undergrad 3) [longshot] maybe get some outside work out of it.
The things you do at 1am when you should be in bed. With that, I'm off to bed before I get myself into any more trouble.
Having some kind of "We fucked up, we're really sorry about it" ceremony isn't the weird part. Germany does that all the time. It's inviting the descendants of the victims back that seems weird. I mean, I'm trying to imagine, if he did go, what the mayor or anyone else in the town would say to him. "Sorry our grandparents broke your grandfather's restaurant"? "Good thing your mother got out in time"?
I remember reading that the city of Berlin has a thing each year where they invite any former Jewish residents (and anyone else persecuted by the Nazis, I suppose) of Berlin back to the city, and the city pays for all the travel expences and has some kind of ceremony for them. Aschaffenburg is a much smaller city, so I guess they just do it for anniversaries? I can't recall hearing about this on any other anniversary, but the last multiple-of-ten year one, my grandmother was still alive, so the letter would have gone to her, so I might not have heard about it.
O ya, MM, saw a great license plate this morning, and was hoping it was you moved back to LA. It read "KRP2NYT"
BWAH! That's awesome.
I think if we move back to L.A...so tempting...I would try to get a vanity plate that said "MRCLMAN".
Assuming I could get my license back.
urgh. Sitting in the dealership waiting to hear about my car. Fucking coolant light came on four months after it was in for service. I'm v. Annoyed.
In a followup to Cambridge sending me a notice about my apparently-still-existent application, Boston University Upward Bound would like me to know they have a math position open this summer.
This wouldn't seem so strange to me if I'd gotten any of these emails last summer, but they seem to have skipped a year.
Maybe they truly had a Leap Year.
I need to quit writing important things on PostIt notes, because they seem to like to disappear. grrrr.
I myself need to stop a) downloading new games and playing them obsessively, b) getting up late, or c) getting on the computer before leaving for work. Cutting out any one of those might enable me to get to work on time (well, a only inasmuch as it might let me stop doing b).
