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.

From: [identity profile] hotshot2000.livejournal.com


Interested little lessons those sorts of things teach the kids -- that kashrut standards are important until they interfere with eating desert (desert!).

From: [identity profile] sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com


Dealing with kashrut issues can suck. Especially when people won't listen to you. At least at Penn I was lucky in that most people working and eating there cared about the kashrut of the dining hall, and would ask me before doing something they were unsure of. And we had someone watching to make sure people didn't bring in outside food. And people couldn't just go to the kitchen and get themselves something, and when one kitchen (meat or dairy) was open, the other was locked. So Shabbas was the only time where there were a lot of problems.

I've taken a break from kippot since I hurt my hand in Israel. I'm afraid of them right now!!!

And a question having absolutely nothing to do with this post- can I come visit you for a Shabbat sometime in the near future?

From: [identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com


You're more than welcome- but I won't be back in NYC in my own space until almost the beginning of September. After that, you're very welcome. If you want to visit at camp- I'm not sure that next shabbos we're allowed visitors (I can check if you want), and I"m not sure of the story, the shabbos afterwards. Email me?

From: [identity profile] sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com


Ah. I forgot that you're not going to be back in NY for a bit. [for some reason "camp" didn't register as "not NY" in my brain. My brain is on vacation. :-p] So I guess I'll e-mail you at the beginning of September (though the first few shabbatot are all 3 day yom tovim! Or Yom Kippur!)

From: [identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com


I didn't think that they were quite that early. Eep. We'll find a time though, eventually.

From: [identity profile] sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com


Yeah. Sign up for classes for Harvard Div is on the 1st day of Rosh Hashana (September 13) and then I'm leading Yom Kippur mincha the next week. I need to finish learning it, but I'm waiting on a nuisach question (they gave me a cd. my nuisach is a lot more embellished than what they have on the CD so I don't know if I can use mine.)
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