Dancing

Steve and I hit the MIT Oldies night last night: we took one wrong turn and got lost once on the way there, and got a little lost but far less than we thought we were on the way back (I'm very grateful that someone gave us directions back, which made the whole trip back quite a bit easier than it might have otherwise been). So we got there a bit later than planned. There was indeed a bunch of stuff that I knew, and a number of things that I wanted to learn that I followed. And I ended up dancing with someone I've seen for 4 years and never even spoken to before. It was an interesting time- the crowd was Much more American in composition than the usual IFD crowd.

Tomorrow I'm heading home for the weekend- leaving a few hours early from work and everything. I'm looking forward to it.

Dancing

Steve and I hit the MIT Oldies night last night: we took one wrong turn and got lost once on the way there, and got a little lost but far less than we thought we were on the way back (I'm very grateful that someone gave us directions back, which made the whole trip back quite a bit easier than it might have otherwise been). So we got there a bit later than planned. There was indeed a bunch of stuff that I knew, and a number of things that I wanted to learn that I followed. And I ended up dancing with someone I've seen for 4 years and never even spoken to before. It was an interesting time- the crowd was Much more American in composition than the usual IFD crowd.

Tomorrow I'm heading home for the weekend- leaving a few hours early from work and everything. I'm looking forward to it.

Marathon Mail Day

Today at work was a little rough: everyone was tired and we finished the easier part of the current project, so we just have the harder ones left, making everyone sort of frustrated: facility and maintenance people are much friendlier and easier to persuade to answer questions than architects, and mechanical engineers (the former of whom don't care too much about the stuff we're asking them anyways and have fewer opinions about it) or distributors, who are mostly too busy to take 20 minutes to answer a bunch of questions.

And then I got home and had both a card and a package waiting at my mailbox: I got a graduation card from one of my uncles and his family, and a combination graduation and birthday gift from zodaicmg, which I decided I could open now, since at least one of those events has passed, and I wanted to read the card he sent... He gave me a bracelet and a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring in Hebrew: he's really very good at this educational gift concept. Reading it will be a real challenge, but it's certainly good motivation to keep working on the current Hebrew novel (the first Harry Potter book- much easier, but much less beloved a book). I've been reading that one, slowly, during my lunch breaks at work. At this rate I should have it finished somewhere around when I finish this job, or maybe a little earlier.

I'm heading home for the weekend (I can't figure out if it's heading home or to my parents' house or both) tomorrow straight from work- I'm leaving a few hours early to beat rush hour and all that. I need to redig out the directions Dad gave me last time, or get them from him again. I should probably get him to email those to me again, just in case, although I keep a stack of useful directions in my car on notecards: to and from work by a few different routes, to and from a friend's house or two, and possibly still the ones home and back. We'll see how this trip goes. I ought to go pack soon, and finish straightening up my room.

Out of chronological order, I went to morning minyan (or well, morning davenen, it was more like half a minyan) at Temple Beth Israel (aka Beth Bingo aka that shul in Waltham where the average age is around 65) on Wednesday morning, and it was actually pretty nice. And in contrast to that weekday morning that nuqotw and shirei_shibolim and Steve and I went back in my Freshman year, I pretty much kept up this time. I should really start making an effort to go more often: it doesn't really involve getting up much earlier than I would otherwise (unless I'm really tired and sleep in a touch), just being a little more efficient with my time.

Marathon Mail Day

Today at work was a little rough: everyone was tired and we finished the easier part of the current project, so we just have the harder ones left, making everyone sort of frustrated: facility and maintenance people are much friendlier and easier to persuade to answer questions than architects, and mechanical engineers (the former of whom don't care too much about the stuff we're asking them anyways and have fewer opinions about it) or distributors, who are mostly too busy to take 20 minutes to answer a bunch of questions.

And then I got home and had both a card and a package waiting at my mailbox: I got a graduation card from one of my uncles and his family, and a combination graduation and birthday gift from zodaicmg, which I decided I could open now, since at least one of those events has passed, and I wanted to read the card he sent... He gave me a bracelet and a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring in Hebrew: he's really very good at this educational gift concept. Reading it will be a real challenge, but it's certainly good motivation to keep working on the current Hebrew novel (the first Harry Potter book- much easier, but much less beloved a book). I've been reading that one, slowly, during my lunch breaks at work. At this rate I should have it finished somewhere around when I finish this job, or maybe a little earlier.

I'm heading home for the weekend (I can't figure out if it's heading home or to my parents' house or both) tomorrow straight from work- I'm leaving a few hours early to beat rush hour and all that. I need to redig out the directions Dad gave me last time, or get them from him again. I should probably get him to email those to me again, just in case, although I keep a stack of useful directions in my car on notecards: to and from work by a few different routes, to and from a friend's house or two, and possibly still the ones home and back. We'll see how this trip goes. I ought to go pack soon, and finish straightening up my room.

Out of chronological order, I went to morning minyan (or well, morning davenen, it was more like half a minyan) at Temple Beth Israel (aka Beth Bingo aka that shul in Waltham where the average age is around 65) on Wednesday morning, and it was actually pretty nice. And in contrast to that weekday morning that nuqotw and shirei_shibolim and Steve and I went back in my Freshman year, I pretty much kept up this time. I should really start making an effort to go more often: it doesn't really involve getting up much earlier than I would otherwise (unless I'm really tired and sleep in a touch), just being a little more efficient with my time.