Shabbat, etc

[debka_notion]

First shabbat back on campus, now over. It turned out better than I expected- I usually find events that big rather overwhelming, and it was overwhelming at times. But I had dinner with people I knew, and we sang after, first on our own and then with the huge mob. And then I spent a bunch of time talking- I was afraid, as I usually am at the beginning of a new year, that I wouldn't find appropriate social situations, but I did, without a problem. Lots of people to talk to, and shul and a nap and more shul pretty much describes my Shabbos.

Oh yes, and I got looked at reproachfully by a duck. A number of times- I was sitting and looking at Chapels' Pond, and it seemed to think that I was obligated to feed it, but I had no food with me. Poor silly duck. I felt sort of bad, which means that it was doing a good job though, I guess.

TOnight I went to the orientation-ish whatever-it-was with free food that I didn't eat (wasn't hungry), loud music inside and random things to do that I didn't do. But I had a good time talking, mostly with BORGlings, and some random other folks. And then belu and I took a walk, which was good (to quote my grandmother, who says that far touoo often). So- no major excitement, I guess. Mostly it was just first-Shabbat-back weirdness. It's sort of difficult to resettle into the pattern at first, pleasant as it is. Shabbat with all the company seems much shorter. But it's the same sort of unsettledness- I don't know which of my current friends will be the people I spend time with, and what freshmen I'll meet and who will be around and become people I really know and which ones I'll never see again. Usually I'm lazy- I like my routine, and knowing whom I'll see, whom I'll eat with, etc. This sort of chaos is exciting, but it's also confusing and sort of anxious. By partway into the semester I always forget about this. It's weird to feel so much undifferentiated potential...

Comments

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

ducks are silly.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

It was somewhat funnier because back in middle school, my sister, some friends and I had a running joke in which we referred to all our teachers as ducks, and gave them assorted water bird code names. I don't remember them, but it was a great deal of fun then, and for a while I had a plush duckling keychain sitting on my bureau because of it... You know- running jokes.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

So, maybe the duck was really reproaching you about not being inside doing your homework. You shouldn't stereotype and assume all they think about is food...

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

On Shabbos? I had public school teachers who were well trained to respect religious difference...