Tomorrow is my Tsav Rishon (first meeting with the IDF). Wish me luck!

God…look buddy, you made him…you deal with him (please?)

And on that note, a full post tomorrow…for now…bed, then work, then bank, then class, then passing out.

I’m listening to Hashem Melech, in Hebrew, by Yosef Karduner…and for the first time ever, I’m understanding it…and I found myself crying…what a moving song…what a statement of beauty.

Itai, Shirah and Myself are meeting with the land lord in Tel Aviv tomorrow, so hopefully all goes as well as expected. I have work from 0400-0800, it is my goal to be all showered by 0845, and in a cab by 0920, to be on my way to Tel Aviv no later than 1030, and at Itai’s apartment by no later than 1100…if not earlier…keep your fingers crossed, knock on wood, whatever…but it’ll be nice to have this lined up so I can relax a little bit :o)

More sometime this weekend…I’m going to Video Chat with mom at 2300 then head to bed :o)

So we all have our dirty pleasure movies…you know the ones, those (sometimes admittedly tacky) movies that are so cliché (if only because they caricature something in our own lives or that of the people around us) that we keep them hidden, tucked away from all those ‘normal’ DVDs that line our shelves that we’re proud to display as part of our collection…those DVDs that you call your best friend over to watch when you’ve had one of those days…those delectably sweet DVDs that are sometimes enjoyed with…oh, say an entire cheesecake or a pizza and a can of Soda (something perfectly acceptable to order on Long Island, usually followed with an “Whoa…I’m sorry ’bout your day dude” from the guy behind the counter as you pay for your order), the Sweetest Thing, Grandma’s Boy, A League of Their Own, Step Up to name a few…and we all have our favorites…

Mine is Legally Blond :o)

What’s yours?

Busy week coming up! Oy! Actual post tomorrow night, sometime after class and before dance practice.

Thanks to Itai for spotting the error I made in my second to last post, the Army (IDF) Ulpan is 2.5 months long, not 2.5 weeks long.

…I’m craving a sandwich…hmm…I suppose a sandwich, some tea, and a chapter or two of a book wouldn’t hurt before bed…

So, since I’m going home for three weeks this summer, and part of that will be on a road trip to Virginia and South Carolina, I didn’t want to disconnect myself from Hebrew (almost as soon as I land back in Israel, I’ll be in another Ulpan…the main difference with the one I’m going into from the one that I’m in now is that I’ll be wearing a uniform and addressing everyone as ‘Sir’, since it’ll be an Ulpan run by the Israeli Defense Forces that I have to take before I deploy with my unit…2.5 months, 4 students, 1 teacher…yeah…it’s slightly better than an orgasm…).

Wanting to pick a story that I knew well, that was relatively simple to start with, I’ve chosen הארי פוטר as my reading endeavor:

The story I know incredibly well (I’ve read it…well…let’s just say I’ve read it more than a few times, shall we?), it’s written on a level that I can - at this point safely say - I can read (despite my lamentations, I have actually been learning at Ulpan…just no where near as intensely as I would like to be), and any unfamiliar terms are likely to be magic related and so I’ll pick up a more thorough dictionary when I’m at the book store and bring it with me. Everything else is “Harry lived here,” “Harry went here,” and “Harry said this” so I don’t imagine there will be too much trouble.

This weekend both of my roommates are off the Kibbutz (they’ve been gone since yesterday), and I’ll be taking the opportunity to get ahead in the textbook, soar through the extra homework assignments I asked for (geek what!?), and go over my flash cards a few hundred more times.

This coming week I’ll be in Jerusalem the nights of the 12th and the 13th. I have some things that I need to do (I have a meeting with one of the Ministry offices), some people who asked for prayers at the Kotel (and if you fine folks need anything, let me know), and some things I need to pick up (Harry Potter…). The Ulpan is touring Jerusalem on the 14th, so I asked my director if I could just meet up with them there in the morning and then take the bus back with them in the evening, and he was fine with it

I have a lot more to write about, but I have class at 7am, so it will come sometime in the afternoon.

I used to know people who would collect these, and I’ve wanted to do a Linguistics paper (Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics Reaction Experiment, a Sociolinguistics General Analysis/Political Speech, or a Syntax Analysis) on his tracts for awhile (if only because they’re like train wrecks, and a dirty pleasure to read). See if you can spot the leaps of logic in his latest tract.

I mean, if you’re Christian, wonderful, Jesus was rocking and I’m all for multiple realities, multiple truths, and people expressing their faith - whatever their faith is - however they want to, within reason (e.g. no virgin sacrifices, no sexual abuse or child abuse, don’t force your followers to drink Kool-aid, etc. and really we’re fine).

It is your right to not believe in the theory of evolution (just as it is my right to believe in it), though it is my personal belief that Noah wouldn’t be so dick as to leave the dinosaurs behind to drown while he sailed away during the flood (everyone loves dinosaurs…well, perhaps not God if, you know, his will was the catalyst that wiped them all out)…but if you’re going to present your argument (or rather, if you want to present your argument well) perhaps it would behoove you to have some logic in the manner in which you present it (your faith doesn’t have to be logical, your storyboarding does)…or have your character behave in a fashion that would be similar to how someone would actually behave if they found themselves in the same situation

In other news, there are few things as wonderful as feeding a brand new baby cow :o)…well, except maybe giving the baby cow hugs and kisses on the forehead, and talking to it…