A Long Day

Today was long, with some real highs, a few minor lows, and a few bits of mild anxiety. And we now have a router, but my long cord has been appropriated and I've been forbidden to touch the cords except to plug my comptuer into the one left for me- which doesn't reach anywhere near where my computer lives when it's plugged in and attached to the printer. Grrr. This qualifies as unacceptable for the long run. Especially as I bought the router. Which oughtn't matter, but in my primitive brain, it seems to.

I keep hearing the beginnings of Amy's songs and thinking they're dances until they get past the second bar and of course aren't. But that last one sounded disarmingly like a dance I learned at my first dance camp and haven't heard since except on the video from that camp...

A Long Day

Today was long, with some real highs, a few minor lows, and a few bits of mild anxiety. And we now have a router, but my long cord has been appropriated and I've been forbidden to touch the cords except to plug my comptuer into the one left for me- which doesn't reach anywhere near where my computer lives when it's plugged in and attached to the printer. Grrr. This qualifies as unacceptable for the long run. Especially as I bought the router. Which oughtn't matter, but in my primitive brain, it seems to.

I keep hearing the beginnings of Amy's songs and thinking they're dances until they get past the second bar and of course aren't. But that last one sounded disarmingly like a dance I learned at my first dance camp and haven't heard since except on the video from that camp...

Meme of 7s

At the bidding of shirei_shibolim and possibly someone else. SOmeone wanted me to do some meme. I just need to refind it. Or, if you Are that someone, you could just tell me what it is again and make my life much easier...
7 Things I Can Do
1. Handsew small stitches in a fairly straight line
2. Read and write small amounts of a bunch of sort of vaguely obscure languages
3. Sound somewhat more authoritative than I mean to be
4. Make cream-of-refrigerator kugel
5. walk for long distances happily
6. Be happy with most weather except for prolonged rain
7. Unintentionally convince many people that I will someday be a good mother

7 Things I Can't Do
1. Spell refridgerator/refrigerator apparently...
2. Use a sewing machine
3. Write non-nerdy prose that isn't very dull or Very stylized.
4. Keep a room neat week-around
5. tolerate a hair-and-guck-covered bathroom for very long
6. Make technology work without detailed instructions
7. Restrain my emotions for long

7 Celebrity Crushes
Like Elf and shirei_shibolim, I don't really have any. Possibly because I don't know who many of them are. Also because the idea offends my internal sensibilities. But here are some "celebrity" admirations:
1. Moshiko's ability to compose, perform and choreograph his own songs/dances. (On the other hand, he named his son Ben-ya, and that's just Eeep.)

7 Things I Find Attractive
Note that I have indeed erased shirei_shibolim's answers before I put in mine, but I think some of them might overlap.
1. Intelligence
2. Eccentricity
3. Compassion/Empathy
4. An ability to keep me calm
5. Dancing/ability to dance
6. A willingness to see my jokes as funny occasionally
7. Expressiveness

7 Things I Hope to Do Before I Die (not necessarily in this order)
1. Have a family of my own
2. Compile a book of useful minhagim and optional rituals for use in the Jewish home for making religious life meaningful/touching/personal
3. Figure out, prepare for and have a career that involves scholarship that interests me
4. Teach something in such a way that it has an significant positive impact on someone's life
5. Learn to be more relaxed about things people say to/about me.
6. Learn to make real useful textile products/clothing and use a sewing machine.
7. Become very competent at most Jewish ritual skills.

7 Things I Say Often
1. Nu, yallah
2. Seriously
3. I'm Not a happy camper
4. err
5. 'allo
6. Earth to Planet Steve
7. I don't know (usually in a language other than the one I'm using for the actual conversation)

7 Bloggers/LiveJournal Members I'd Like to Infect With This Meme
I don't send chain letters or the like, but I'd be quite happy if other people chose to fill this thing out too...


And Why On Earth is the spoken dance instruction in "Shall We Dance" from The King and I for a polka, nearly?

I read the most interesting article in the Journal of Contemporary Halakha about secular names and an Eastern European ritual for giving a baby its secular name called a hollekreisch or cholkreisch. In it, after the first shabbat the mother comes to shul, children from the community are invited back to the house of the new baby, the secular name is said aloud and the baby/crib may be raised, and then originally fruit but later candy (so as not to smush fruit making it inedible and thus wasting it) is/was thrown to the children. Really interesting stuff... The articlce also differentiated between Yiddish "secular" names and English "goyish" names... ARgh.

Meme of 7s

At the bidding of shirei_shibolim and possibly someone else. SOmeone wanted me to do some meme. I just need to refind it. Or, if you Are that someone, you could just tell me what it is again and make my life much easier...
7 Things I Can Do
1. Handsew small stitches in a fairly straight line
2. Read and write small amounts of a bunch of sort of vaguely obscure languages
3. Sound somewhat more authoritative than I mean to be
4. Make cream-of-refrigerator kugel
5. walk for long distances happily
6. Be happy with most weather except for prolonged rain
7. Unintentionally convince many people that I will someday be a good mother

7 Things I Can't Do
1. Spell refridgerator/refrigerator apparently...
2. Use a sewing machine
3. Write non-nerdy prose that isn't very dull or Very stylized.
4. Keep a room neat week-around
5. tolerate a hair-and-guck-covered bathroom for very long
6. Make technology work without detailed instructions
7. Restrain my emotions for long

7 Celebrity Crushes
Like Elf and shirei_shibolim, I don't really have any. Possibly because I don't know who many of them are. Also because the idea offends my internal sensibilities. But here are some "celebrity" admirations:
1. Moshiko's ability to compose, perform and choreograph his own songs/dances. (On the other hand, he named his son Ben-ya, and that's just Eeep.)

7 Things I Find Attractive
Note that I have indeed erased shirei_shibolim's answers before I put in mine, but I think some of them might overlap.
1. Intelligence
2. Eccentricity
3. Compassion/Empathy
4. An ability to keep me calm
5. Dancing/ability to dance
6. A willingness to see my jokes as funny occasionally
7. Expressiveness

7 Things I Hope to Do Before I Die (not necessarily in this order)
1. Have a family of my own
2. Compile a book of useful minhagim and optional rituals for use in the Jewish home for making religious life meaningful/touching/personal
3. Figure out, prepare for and have a career that involves scholarship that interests me
4. Teach something in such a way that it has an significant positive impact on someone's life
5. Learn to be more relaxed about things people say to/about me.
6. Learn to make real useful textile products/clothing and use a sewing machine.
7. Become very competent at most Jewish ritual skills.

7 Things I Say Often
1. Nu, yallah
2. Seriously
3. I'm Not a happy camper
4. err
5. 'allo
6. Earth to Planet Steve
7. I don't know (usually in a language other than the one I'm using for the actual conversation)

7 Bloggers/LiveJournal Members I'd Like to Infect With This Meme
I don't send chain letters or the like, but I'd be quite happy if other people chose to fill this thing out too...


And Why On Earth is the spoken dance instruction in "Shall We Dance" from The King and I for a polka, nearly?

I read the most interesting article in the Journal of Contemporary Halakha about secular names and an Eastern European ritual for giving a baby its secular name called a hollekreisch or cholkreisch. In it, after the first shabbat the mother comes to shul, children from the community are invited back to the house of the new baby, the secular name is said aloud and the baby/crib may be raised, and then originally fruit but later candy (so as not to smush fruit making it inedible and thus wasting it) is/was thrown to the children. Really interesting stuff... The articlce also differentiated between Yiddish "secular" names and English "goyish" names... ARgh.