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Yesterday I spent much of the day at home, doing a little cleaning, a little crocheting, and other sorts of pleasant domestics. I finally blocked the doily I finished earlier in the week- now I just need to unpin it from my towel, and make room for it on the table. I'm starting to run out of room... However, it looks So much better now that it has been blocked. Beforehand, it just looked sort of twisted and lumpy and dull, and now that I stretched it and flattened it, it looks quite dramatic, actually. It's pretty big and very open, I think it might make a really good candidate for backing on some fabric and making into a wall hanging, if I ever manage to get around to it.
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zodiacmg came over to help outofnapkins pack, and so we all hung out for a little while. The dynamics were mildly baffling, but I did enjoy it. And then they headed out for a walk before she left, while I went to meet another friend for a walk. Of course we ran into them partway through, which somehow felt rather awkward, at least for the friend with whom I was walking (less so for me). The walk was nice- we just wandered, and then sat for a while looking out at Jerusalem, and talked. It was a nice "getting to know you" sort of conversation, even though we've been running into each other all year (really, this is a friend I met on my third day here, one of the first people I met in Jerusalem). But getting to know people primarily through Shabbat meals just seems to take ages and ages, often enough. This conversation was sort of interesting because the questions didn't end up being reciprocal- I learned one set of things about him, and he learned a different set of things about me. So often, these conversations are "what do you think about x?", and then the other person answers, and ends it with "and how about you?", which wasn't how this one worked.
Today is shaping up to involve grocery shopping, some more cleaning, and I think a whole bunch of baking (I have the time, I have friends who will probably appreciate a loaf of fresh bread, I enjoy doing it- why not play?).
In the evening,
zodiacmg came over to help outofnapkins pack, and so we all hung out for a little while. The dynamics were mildly baffling, but I did enjoy it. And then they headed out for a walk before she left, while I went to meet another friend for a walk. Of course we ran into them partway through, which somehow felt rather awkward, at least for the friend with whom I was walking (less so for me). The walk was nice- we just wandered, and then sat for a while looking out at Jerusalem, and talked. It was a nice "getting to know you" sort of conversation, even though we've been running into each other all year (really, this is a friend I met on my third day here, one of the first people I met in Jerusalem). But getting to know people primarily through Shabbat meals just seems to take ages and ages, often enough. This conversation was sort of interesting because the questions didn't end up being reciprocal- I learned one set of things about him, and he learned a different set of things about me. So often, these conversations are "what do you think about x?", and then the other person answers, and ends it with "and how about you?", which wasn't how this one worked. Today is shaping up to involve grocery shopping, some more cleaning, and I think a whole bunch of baking (I have the time, I have friends who will probably appreciate a loaf of fresh bread, I enjoy doing it- why not play?).