Weekend and A Search For Riddles

Item 2: I just spent from 1-6 this afternoon planning BORG's first ever DragonHunt. I'm in search of riddles for use in said game. If you're not a Brandeis person and have riddles for me, send them to me? Not in the comments, so that people who might be playing don't see them, if you could...

That said, planning went quite well, and we have a general set of rules and structure mostly laid out. But gosh it was a long planning meeting. It needed to be- but I was getting pretty antsy by the end.

Item 1: Shabbat was nice- not a great one, but nice. I just started it in a somewhat less than ideal mood. But dinner was pleasant and the rest of the evening was quiet and nice, for lack of better words. Davenning in the morning was an unusually connected experience- better prayer than I've had in a bit. Rabbi Lehmann gave a shiur working with a text by Rebbe Nachman of Bratzlov, which was both very useful in terms of another perspective on tshuva and sort of amusing because R. Nachman says the same thing Over and Over and Over again in just about the same words. On the other hand, he uses pretty easy words, at least for that one. So there were some good chuckles.

Back to homework, finally. Reading and Biblical Hebrew studying, here I come.

Weekend and A Search For Riddles

Item 2: I just spent from 1-6 this afternoon planning BORG's first ever DragonHunt. I'm in search of riddles for use in said game. If you're not a Brandeis person and have riddles for me, send them to me? Not in the comments, so that people who might be playing don't see them, if you could...

That said, planning went quite well, and we have a general set of rules and structure mostly laid out. But gosh it was a long planning meeting. It needed to be- but I was getting pretty antsy by the end.

Item 1: Shabbat was nice- not a great one, but nice. I just started it in a somewhat less than ideal mood. But dinner was pleasant and the rest of the evening was quiet and nice, for lack of better words. Davenning in the morning was an unusually connected experience- better prayer than I've had in a bit. Rabbi Lehmann gave a shiur working with a text by Rebbe Nachman of Bratzlov, which was both very useful in terms of another perspective on tshuva and sort of amusing because R. Nachman says the same thing Over and Over and Over again in just about the same words. On the other hand, he uses pretty easy words, at least for that one. So there were some good chuckles.

Back to homework, finally. Reading and Biblical Hebrew studying, here I come.

Music and Not-Composting

I just remembered that I wanted to try downloading the music from Lishma again- and it's playing now. Haven't tried to really download it yet. But at least it plays. So now I can play it ad infinitum so I really learn these couple of songs and then I can start inflicting them on people here. I'd forgotten how much new-to-me music I encountered this summer.

Also- I was talking to Steve and thinking about how odd it feels not to be composting here- I mean, this isn't a dorm room, and my only paradigms prior ot this for "home" situations have been houses with gardens or dorm rooms. So I feel a little funny every time I throw out carrot peels or egg shells or any of that sort of thing. But it isn't like there's a yard to use it on here, or even that we'd be here long enough for it to be worthwhile, barring unforseen happenings. But it's still sort of odd for me. I'm getting used to it. But it's rather like a friend of Mom's who for years used to keep a jar of skimmed-off chicken fat from making chicken soup in her fridge and then would have to throw it out because it would go bad- but she did it because her mother did. Of course, her mother actually used it for other cooking. In contrast, I'd like to someday be able to have and use a compost pile- I have not-so-secret fantasies about vegetable gardens in my future. But part of the "it just feels like what you Do" attitude is the same...

Music and Not-Composting

I just remembered that I wanted to try downloading the music from Lishma again- and it's playing now. Haven't tried to really download it yet. But at least it plays. So now I can play it ad infinitum so I really learn these couple of songs and then I can start inflicting them on people here. I'd forgotten how much new-to-me music I encountered this summer.

Also- I was talking to Steve and thinking about how odd it feels not to be composting here- I mean, this isn't a dorm room, and my only paradigms prior ot this for "home" situations have been houses with gardens or dorm rooms. So I feel a little funny every time I throw out carrot peels or egg shells or any of that sort of thing. But it isn't like there's a yard to use it on here, or even that we'd be here long enough for it to be worthwhile, barring unforseen happenings. But it's still sort of odd for me. I'm getting used to it. But it's rather like a friend of Mom's who for years used to keep a jar of skimmed-off chicken fat from making chicken soup in her fridge and then would have to throw it out because it would go bad- but she did it because her mother did. Of course, her mother actually used it for other cooking. In contrast, I'd like to someday be able to have and use a compost pile- I have not-so-secret fantasies about vegetable gardens in my future. But part of the "it just feels like what you Do" attitude is the same...