A Good Day

Yesterday turned out to be a really lovely day. Classes were not particularly thrilling, but at least they were un-offensive (with a humorous sideline where the line "I don't want to know what you do", that line generally applied to subjects more or less racy was used regarding shaving implements- for all my kvetches, the class is sometimes quite amusing).

After school, I came home for about an hour, and then I headed off to a murder mystery party. It turned out to be a truly hilarious time. My character was the deceased's eldest son, described as "not very bright". I had a pretty good time playing up exactly how dumb the guy was, which fit in pretty hilariously with a variety of other folks' over-acting. The game was great fun, leading me to be up far later than I had expected without really noticing it. Really, it was a lovely time, and a chance to get to spend some time with folks I don't know so well, as well as a few whom I do. The complications and results were pretty well set-up. Being a crowd full of rabbinical school and yeshiva students, there were a lot of humorous claims about being home learning gemara at the time of the death, "my hiddush is" etc. One of my favorite touches to the event was that my hosts put up labels turning their wall decorations into stuff relevant to the murder mystery- so a picture of Solomon Schechter got labeled as a picture of the deceased, etc, etc. It was delightfully funny.