Spray Paint, All Day Long

[debka_notion]

I’m trying going back to a system of internet usage that, after four years of college and a year of grad school, feels rather foreign: I’m thinking of writing what I want to mostly off line, and then I’ll go set up by the internet access later, and post to LJ and check email and such then. As for right now, I have just a few minutes before we go out for ice cream as the crowd of staff who are here thus far- the rest of staff comes tomorrow. Today already it is a different place from yesterday. Yesterday was practically silent, and we moved from eating at one table in the small kitchen to eating in the smaller dining hall; today the small dining hall is just over half full. My roommate has not yet arrived, but the girls in one of the other two rooms off of my hall are here and moved in to some extent. They have much more stuff than I do- and Dad and I had thought that I had lots of stuff. But at least their room has a functioning lightbulb- mine still does not.

Work today was a pretty good workout, if not terribly challenging: I had to go through all the stuff in the kitchen and re-spraypaint things where the colored paint was chipping off (the paint indicates meat or dairy status, so that we can spot at a glance what goes where). So I spent the vast majority of the day checking dishes/cookware/serving-ware, carrying them outside and putting them out on plastic tablecloths, and then marking them and letting them dry.

Now I’m adding on after an expedition for ice cream that was a mix of awkwardness, since I know almost no one and most folks know tons of people from previous years, and Brandeis trivia. The people here are interesting- most folks seem to be your very classic camp type personalities, and then the kitchen folks seem very much like people I knew in my couple of restaurant jobs. I’m finding myself more cheerful than I’d expect, seeing as fairly few people really inspire me, thus far. But at this rate, I’m guessing that it might be a fairly solitary summer, at least in large chunks. We’ll see.

Davening tomorrow won't be until well after I start work, but my friend in the admin staff thinks he might be able to arrange for me to be able to make davening a few days a week or something. I'm not sure it'll be That worthwhile, but being a good example is probably something I should do, and should want to do. Dunno. Maybe there will be a mincha/ma'ariv minyan or something of the sort, although I'm told that there wasn't one in the past. If there isn't, part of me thinks I ought to try to organize one, another part of me thinks that it's not worth the tsurris or energy investment.

Comments

[jonahrank.livejournal.com]

Behatzlachah with organizing mincha/ma'ariv.

Every religious Jewish outing needs mincha/ma'ariv in my opinion.