I have vague memories of dressing up as She-Ra, Princess of Power, for Purim when I was about five or so. And in sixth grade, a boy in my grade dressed up in torn jeans and about four layers of flannel shirts and said he was dressed as this other boy in our class. (This was 1993. The guy he was dressed as took all his fashion cues from his older brother, who seemed to take all his fashion cues from Kurt Cobain. Older brother once came up to one of my teammates at a softball game and asked, "Want me to pierce your ear?" She said no thanks. He said, "Why? It doesn't hurt," and then took a needle out of his pocket and poked a new hole in his earlobe. Their mother apparently said at several parent meetings that the one reason she was glad her son had asthma was that she knew he wasn't smoking pot. Every other parent knew that she was delusional, but no one was quite brave enough to tell her.)

Leg cramps: second recs for hydration and potassium. IF bannans don't do it potassium chloride is sold as a salt substitute. Also, going to bed on an empty stomach (that is not eating too close to bedtime) can help if she does not already follow that practice.

did not need saying twice.

Thanks guys. I will pass these on.

Thank goodness for my mother and her ability to talk endlessly about anything. I had the worst anxiety attack that I have had in ages a little while ago and TCG is not home. Mom talked with me for a while on the phone, and I'm feeling much better now.

Also, from the names on the captions, it looks like a lot of the people are Persian or Arab Jews.

I think Beth Jacob covers a pretty wide spectrum. It's a big Orthodox synagogue with a school and a lot of members in walking distance. The area Kroger and Publix both have in-store Kosher bakeries and meat departments.

I think I'd thought that most Jews in Atlanta were either German or Eastern European. The more recent immigrants from the Middle East have been tending toward certain places -- Persians in LA, Syrians in NYC -- and I hadn't really thought that a significant number had gone to Atlanta.

Ah. Google tells me that the Sephardic Jews in Atlanta are mostly Greek and Turkish.

Glad that you're feeling better, sj.

I just had a random attack of "Crap! What if I never get married? Can I still have kids?" I honestly have no idea where that came from. Probably because I skipped Purim, and thus skipped an opportunity to be social.

Thanks, Hil. I'm still just a little shaky, but TCG is home, so all is good.

Hil, do not torture yourself with crazy what if's.