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The roommate and I started her working on her afghan again- it's progressing (significantly due to efforts her father put into making squares for it while he was here), and we started thinking about arrangement of squares when she has enough of them- which she's getting close to doing. At the same time, I'm working my way through another doily. Our coffee-table is getting fairly significant doily coverage. At some point I'll probably back at least one of them and then hang it on the wall, but I haven't gotten there yet. I wonder what I'll do with these doilies when the year ends- I'm sure I'll leave one or two with the apartment as a gift to whomever moves in next (because the place is So Absurdly White), but I'm not sure that anyone other than me wants quite so many doilies as I'm likely to potentially leave behind me. Perhaps I'll find a few folks who want one, and give them away. Really, I've only made 3 this year, plus the one that I'm working on, but somehow that feels like a significant number anyways.
In more interesting news, we managed to actually discuss Niddah in halakha class today, and will go over a bit more of it next week before we move on to Aveilut (mourning). And at some point my chevruta for that class is heading to the USA for a couple of weeks for a conference for her scholarship, as well as some time for working on planning her wedding (set for this summer at some point, I believe). So I'll be on my own for prep, unless I join some other group, but the prep for this class isn't so hard- not quite on the level as some of my previous halakha classes, but that's not unexpected. She's been fun to work with on the sources for Niddah- for once we have rather similar reactions. Apparently she may switch to the other class for next semester, so we'll see what happens then.
Rabbi Roth came to meet with us over lunchtime today, to hear how things were going and to tell us a few things about things at JTS (mostly details about possible restructuring of the faculty departments into larger categories, changes with the Hebrew department, etc). It was both useful and rather humorous and frustrating all at once- a bunch of people used the time to talk about how uncomfortable they felt at Schechter as gay students or allies, at a school where gay Israeli students can't be students. Now, I understand how they might well feel that way. However, Rabbi Roth, as a faculty member rather than a member of the rabbinical school administration, and as the author of a teshuvah that sided against the admission of gay and lesbian students to the rabbinical school seems like an unlikely person to whom to voice that complaint. Or so I would think...
And now it's mysteriously just about bedtime. I'm kind of confused as to how that happens so quickly.
In more interesting news, we managed to actually discuss Niddah in halakha class today, and will go over a bit more of it next week before we move on to Aveilut (mourning). And at some point my chevruta for that class is heading to the USA for a couple of weeks for a conference for her scholarship, as well as some time for working on planning her wedding (set for this summer at some point, I believe). So I'll be on my own for prep, unless I join some other group, but the prep for this class isn't so hard- not quite on the level as some of my previous halakha classes, but that's not unexpected. She's been fun to work with on the sources for Niddah- for once we have rather similar reactions. Apparently she may switch to the other class for next semester, so we'll see what happens then.
Rabbi Roth came to meet with us over lunchtime today, to hear how things were going and to tell us a few things about things at JTS (mostly details about possible restructuring of the faculty departments into larger categories, changes with the Hebrew department, etc). It was both useful and rather humorous and frustrating all at once- a bunch of people used the time to talk about how uncomfortable they felt at Schechter as gay students or allies, at a school where gay Israeli students can't be students. Now, I understand how they might well feel that way. However, Rabbi Roth, as a faculty member rather than a member of the rabbinical school administration, and as the author of a teshuvah that sided against the admission of gay and lesbian students to the rabbinical school seems like an unlikely person to whom to voice that complaint. Or so I would think...
And now it's mysteriously just about bedtime. I'm kind of confused as to how that happens so quickly.