On the first night of Chanukah...

[chanaleh]

Happy birthday, skreeky!! -- And lucretia_borgia, and apparently rikchik'n'cnoocy. Wow.

And also, it is Chanukah. *glow* I went to the MIT lighting of the test-tube menorah. No blowtorch, though.

... OMG have I been busy. I mean, when I say that, you know it's serious. My house is a total shambles and I haven't bought but two Xmas gifts (and one Chanukah one* that I gave tonight). Largely it's because work is so insane. (Though not so insane that I couldn't decorate my [office] door with a serious, not to say strident, Hebrew-school-style Chanukah display for the office party tomorrow afternoon. Let's just say it incorporates Al ha-Nisim -- including Bimei Matityahu. I had fun.)

*Actually, there's also the one I bought myself: a doumbek (finally!). It is cobalt blue ceramic. I am inordinately pleased. I have a proper drum! Not just a lame-o tambourine!

Sunday's art show went well. I sold some stuff -- and not only that... ten pairs of my earrings are now in the Out of the Blue Gallery next door to my house. (Deb Priestly came to the show and bought two pairs from me and offered to take more on consignment. Yay!)

And jessruth's visit was great, except for it getting cut short by half because her new nephew had the audacity to arrive half a day before his scheduled delivery. Doesn't he know about Jewish Standard Time yet? Sheesh. ;-)

Oh yeah, so, this Saturday:
(1) Pirates of Penzance outing to the 12/11 matinee (2pm) at HRG&SP. Please reconfirm if you wish me to order you a ticket.
Short (updated) list of people I have down: me, kalessin, mrmorse, ablock, metoikos +1, red_queen, jweiss.
(Folks who said earlier that they might be interested for this date: saxikath? points?)

(2) See me and ladypsyche perform with Honorable Menschen at a Tremont St. Chanukah concert! 7:30-8:30pm at Temple Beth Shalom. All are welcome to attend.

And then there's Shabbat dinner and the Lord Chancellor's housewarming -- both Friday -- and all the assorted Chanukah madness... but never mind that for now. For now I am going to read Coraline (one of several charming little gifts tonight) and go to sleep before it is terribly late, so that I can get up tomorrow and do it all over again.

Comments

[memerath.livejournal.com]

Yay Out of the Blue! Deb is so...Deb.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking of you! And... yeah, I get that impression. :-)

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Coraline is good stuff. Honestly though, I wouldn't recommend reading it before going to sleep...or the "Other Mother" will get you!

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Excellent--a party we're both planning to attend. I hope we overlap!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Friday, you mean? Fab! Of course, I won't get there until after 11... :-P But at least it's right up the street from me.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Cool. I actually have another thing to get to earlier, so the odds are good I'll see you there.

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he know about Jewish Standard Time yet? Sheesh. ;-)

Well, after this Sunday, he'll certainly know he's Jewish....

[skreeky]

Thank you!

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

"Rabbi...is there a proper blessing for a new doumbek?"

Congrats on the new drum, anyways. May your neighbours develop a taste for percussion. :)

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

I just found out about Pirates, but is there any chance you could get me a ticket too? Also Mike. I've been wanting to see HRGSP since Liz told me about 'em. ALso, since I'm going to try and get to minyan, it works out nayway.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

oh, excellent, yeah!!
and, so, you mean you're coming to shul Sat. a.m. and we can all go straight from there? :-)

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

yes.
Mike will meet us at Harvard.

[red-queen.livejournal.com]

Please count me in on Saturday pirating! (whoever sits next to me gets to hear me grumble about the makeup... probably. Techies are *never* good civilian audiences ;))

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

yay!