A Day Of Silly Kashrut Issues

Today was a fairly quiet day, but I did make it through the full day of work. I was plentifully tired at the end of the day, but it was a full day, with some obnoxious sorts of excitement at the end. Most of the day went quietly but there were some really ridiculous sorts of minor kashrut issues that went on. First, one of my colleagues saw a counselor walk into the kitchen to get hot water to put into his own cup of instant soup. Two problems: 1. No one is supposed to bring food into the kitchen or dining hall without running it past me first, and 2. This wasn't even kosher instant soup. She told me, and then the director of camp. Apparently this counselor has been trouble already- go figure.

Then, at the end of the day, we were short of shape-ups (frozen juice bars- pareve), and so my colleague gave one age group creamsicles instead, which would have been fine, except that there was barbeque today, and camp policy is that everyone gets pareve snack when Any group has barbeque. So- eep. But there's nothing I can do about it. And we're getting more juice bar things tomorrow morning. And then someone started to give a different ice cream bar to a staff member- and if he could have eaten it in the kitchen, fine- it was over 3 hours since lunch, but he insisted on going elsewhere with it, and there were still kids around. Grr.

In brighter news, (to boast, briefly), this morning the business manager of camp walked by me as I was walking to work around 7am and told me that I've been doing a good job, they're adding some money to my pay for the summer, and they'd love it if I came back next year- although they understood that it was rather early to start thinking about that. He's not usually that easy to impress (he's just a rather brusque individual), so I'm rather pleased with myself.

I'm also well into a kippah for myself that I think is coming out quite well- I've done some experimenting with some lacey-looking stuff, and some different textures, and it's rather exciting. This is after finishing one for a colleague's son. We'll see what happens next- things just sort of seem to happen, I'm finding.

A Day Of Silly Kashrut Issues

Today was a fairly quiet day, but I did make it through the full day of work. I was plentifully tired at the end of the day, but it was a full day, with some obnoxious sorts of excitement at the end. Most of the day went quietly but there were some really ridiculous sorts of minor kashrut issues that went on. First, one of my colleagues saw a counselor walk into the kitchen to get hot water to put into his own cup of instant soup. Two problems: 1. No one is supposed to bring food into the kitchen or dining hall without running it past me first, and 2. This wasn't even kosher instant soup. She told me, and then the director of camp. Apparently this counselor has been trouble already- go figure.

Then, at the end of the day, we were short of shape-ups (frozen juice bars- pareve), and so my colleague gave one age group creamsicles instead, which would have been fine, except that there was barbeque today, and camp policy is that everyone gets pareve snack when Any group has barbeque. So- eep. But there's nothing I can do about it. And we're getting more juice bar things tomorrow morning. And then someone started to give a different ice cream bar to a staff member- and if he could have eaten it in the kitchen, fine- it was over 3 hours since lunch, but he insisted on going elsewhere with it, and there were still kids around. Grr.

In brighter news, (to boast, briefly), this morning the business manager of camp walked by me as I was walking to work around 7am and told me that I've been doing a good job, they're adding some money to my pay for the summer, and they'd love it if I came back next year- although they understood that it was rather early to start thinking about that. He's not usually that easy to impress (he's just a rather brusque individual), so I'm rather pleased with myself.

I'm also well into a kippah for myself that I think is coming out quite well- I've done some experimenting with some lacey-looking stuff, and some different textures, and it's rather exciting. This is after finishing one for a colleague's son. We'll see what happens next- things just sort of seem to happen, I'm finding.