just another day in the life

Today was one of those fairly normal, but fun days. I woke up and felt a bit icky, and decided to go back to sleep rather than go to East Asian Lit. I don't think it'll do me too much harm. I'll find out tomorrow morning. But I was feeling kind of shaky, somehow. Sleep took care of it. Other than that- had shiur, BORG, and hit open dancing for a while.

Shiur seems to have this theme of "this is how the halakha should be, but this is what people have always done, so we're going to rule in a way as to rationalize tradition." It isn't so much a position I feel comfortable with. I guess it's to some degree necessary, so that you don't declare all your ancestors as unbearably religiously wrong (not that that says anything about my ancestors, many of whom were, regardless of your position on how often women have to pray, etc). But well- it's still a rationalization, and giving in to ways of life that are less, well fair is the word my mind chooses. I know that by orthodox thought this isn't quite true, but it still bothers me.

BORG was the usual stuff. Dancing was fun in its way, although dancing with Byachad is always weird. The non-byachad crowd is growing: besides Alexis and Aaron and Shoshana who came from BU, there were at least 6 of us that I saw, and there were likely people who left before I showed up. That makes it better, but still- all these people with performance dance forms and no repetoire is kind of weird to be around. This all being besides my usual discomfort with being around people who rejected me, but who have less repetoire than I do by far. It's rather an odd position to be in. OK, bedtime.

just another day in the life

Today was one of those fairly normal, but fun days. I woke up and felt a bit icky, and decided to go back to sleep rather than go to East Asian Lit. I don't think it'll do me too much harm. I'll find out tomorrow morning. But I was feeling kind of shaky, somehow. Sleep took care of it. Other than that- had shiur, BORG, and hit open dancing for a while.

Shiur seems to have this theme of "this is how the halakha should be, but this is what people have always done, so we're going to rule in a way as to rationalize tradition." It isn't so much a position I feel comfortable with. I guess it's to some degree necessary, so that you don't declare all your ancestors as unbearably religiously wrong (not that that says anything about my ancestors, many of whom were, regardless of your position on how often women have to pray, etc). But well- it's still a rationalization, and giving in to ways of life that are less, well fair is the word my mind chooses. I know that by orthodox thought this isn't quite true, but it still bothers me.

BORG was the usual stuff. Dancing was fun in its way, although dancing with Byachad is always weird. The non-byachad crowd is growing: besides Alexis and Aaron and Shoshana who came from BU, there were at least 6 of us that I saw, and there were likely people who left before I showed up. That makes it better, but still- all these people with performance dance forms and no repetoire is kind of weird to be around. This all being besides my usual discomfort with being around people who rejected me, but who have less repetoire than I do by far. It's rather an odd position to be in. OK, bedtime.