Chanukah mid-week review

[chanaleh]

In the past week I have:

Attended holiday parties at my office, my synagogue, the MIT Arts Scholars Program, and CSAIL, not in that order;

Missed some others I would have liked to attend, but oh well;

Seen my boy for an hour or more a day for five days straight (probably a new milestone);

Seen the inside of Joe Haldeman's bedroom (heh);

Visited the Lord Chancellor's amazing new house, and saw lots of cool people there;

Failed to run into bethr and xf once, but succeeded in running into them the following night, at least briefly;

Gone to shul three times (four if you count the Chanukah party; five if you count Wednesday's board meeting);

Eaten latkes at least three times;

Gotten my hair trimmed;

Performed in an a cappella concert, and saw lots of cool people there too;

Dragged ablock, kalessin, greenlily, and muchabstracted down to Plymouth to see The Golden Dreydl, which I enjoyed a lot (besides the actual performance, there's nothing like a good road trip in fair weather, especially if it includes a glimpse of the ocean and a taste of cranberry wine);

Done a load of laundry and watched not one but two Queer Eye holiday specials chez Pup;

Slept not quite enough (but when do I ever?).

Tomorrow is Monday again. And I have so much work to do at work, I'm literally nervous about it. I wonder what the odds are that my boss would let me take this coming Friday as a random vacation day?

And tomorrow is also Rosh Chodesh, which means -- you guessed it -- morning minyan at 7am. Oy.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've really been on the run... but at least it's all been for positive reasons! (And, congrats on the 5-day streak!)

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll bite.

Seen the inside of Joe Haldeman's bedroom (heh)

Could you elucidate?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay. >:-)
Tiger Boy was taking a writing class with him this semester, and they had an end-of-semester pizza party, in which I was graciously included. It was held "at Joe's place", which turned out to be an apartment that he and his wife have in Eastgate -- one floor down from the penthouse, lovely views. Anyway, so the bedroom served (in the usual fashion) as the coatroom. And I wonder if that isn't where I lost one of my dreidel earrings.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Rosh Chodesh, which means -- you guessed it -- morning minyan at 7am.

Last week we started Chanukah minyans at 6:45 am on account of Hallel and Torah reading... three days in a row of that. And you're complaining about 7! Yeesh! :-P (Fortunately we did not have anyone observing a yahrzeit or any other reason to have minyan today, or else we'd have to start at 6:30 or something...)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I can't complain too much, really, esp. as I live a 4-minute walk from the shul :-}