All the things left on my plate now the play is over
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
Sidebar: Okay, 'fess up, who called me from Brandeis this evening? Around 7:30? Oh, maybe it was the Annual Fund kids.
Anyway, the to-do list. Which I decided to split out from the foregoing silly-meme entry.
I am tempted to make a list of crossed-off things I have done recently that constitute a weight off my mind. But I won't bother. They are done. Suffice it to say that there were some.
Things I want to do for shul (medium-term):
1. Make recordings of the Friday night service, as sung by me and/or a few stalwart musical volunteers. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
audioboy? Want a desktop recording gig that should only take a few hours? :-) Add a page to the TBS web site and post MP3s; also make CDs available. Work up to parts of the Saturday morning service as a next round.
2. Launch a donation drive to rustle up 25-50 copies of the "purple siddur"/Chaveirim Kol Yisrael prayerbook ($20 hardcover from Ktav, $25 from Amazon) in order to invigorate the Friday night minyan. It has four columns: complete Hebrew text, complete English translation, a good [Sephardic] transliteration, and creative readings (kavvanot) on the themes of the prayers. It's great. I think it will make a big difference to the service. And I'm really getting committed to making it happen.
3. As a discussion withaudioboy and bex77 reminded me last month: Ignite some kind of fresh discussion/ideas/work on the topic of gay outreach. FCS's "open and affirming," rainbow-flag campaign has already taken them a long way in terms of community (as well as, let's face it, publicity). The TBS board likes to pay a certain amount of lip service to "open and affirming", but the reality is that I don't see much openness on queer issues, let alone same-sex couples -- which (being in the middle of Cambridge as we are) suggests to me that in real life people do not feel all that welcomed or open. This is not acceptable. The "virtual closet" -- people feeling that it is socially preferable or prudent to keep their mouths shut, even as the straight folks all around them congratulate themselves on how tolerant they are -- is not acceptable. Considering certain of the simchas the community can anticipate in the coming year, it is particularly not acceptable. Just my $0.02, but it's high time.
Anyway.
Things I need to do for shul (short-term):
1. Make up aflyer web page for the Israel trip.
2. Send an e-mail fortomorrow night's callout meeting for the Israel trip.
3.Learn my Torah reading for the retreat (#7 of Vayakhel).
4.Go (with missaligator and ablock) to represent Tremont St. at a GesherCity info session Thursday night.
5. Find a suitable hamantashen dough recipe and multiply it to yield approx. 12 dozen, for baking on 3/21. [delegated totapuz -- thank you!]
Things I need to do for me (short-term):
1. Taxes!
2.Decorate my square for musicjill's chuppah!
3. Send off Talley's Folly programs to my faraway dear ones who asked for them.
4. Deliver button orders toinseriatim and jmspencer (for Charlie Brown).
5.Finish taking down the paper background from my office door Chanukah decoration, dammit.
6.Draft some designs for the bar mitzvah invitation commission I started tonight. Preferably in time to bring them to the retreat this weekend.
7. Send [the people I did some catalogs for last year] an illustration they need.
8.Get Friday 3/18 off for Lunacon. (should be no problem, my boss originally thought I was going to take some time this month to go visit my dad, which so far I am not)
9. Make a doctor's appointment for a physical, for which I am ~6 months overdue.
10.Laundry, dishes, groceries, take out the recycling, yada yada yada.
[Tiger Boy: "So, any further thoughts about being in the Yeomen chorus??" Me: "... Aaaaah!"]
Why yes, I actually do intend to accomplish all these short-term things in the next week or two, why do you ask?
Things I want to do for me:
1.Have a late-evening date Thursday night before I go away on the shul retreat [confirmed, yay].
2. Make a gym date for some other time.
3. Make up [more] button stock for Lunacon.
4. See Constantine. I understand it's mediocre at best, but I love that kind of occult shlock.
5. Come to Diesel of a Tuesday to hang out for more than four and a half minutes.
6. Schedule coffee-or-something withmangosteen.
7.Schedule brunch with the TF gang (no, not ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
techno_fandom, though Lunacon will probably qualify as that).
8. Schedule a visit tojessruth in New York!
9. Go to bed at 11pm tonight. -- I think I can actually do this. Amazing.
Anyway, the to-do list. Which I decided to split out from the foregoing silly-meme entry.
I am tempted to make a list of crossed-off things I have done recently that constitute a weight off my mind. But I won't bother. They are done. Suffice it to say that there were some.
Things I want to do for shul (medium-term):
1. Make recordings of the Friday night service, as sung by me and/or a few stalwart musical volunteers. (
audioboy? Want a desktop recording gig that should only take a few hours? :-) Add a page to the TBS web site and post MP3s; also make CDs available. Work up to parts of the Saturday morning service as a next round.2. Launch a donation drive to rustle up 25-50 copies of the "purple siddur"/Chaveirim Kol Yisrael prayerbook ($20 hardcover from Ktav, $25 from Amazon) in order to invigorate the Friday night minyan. It has four columns: complete Hebrew text, complete English translation, a good [Sephardic] transliteration, and creative readings (kavvanot) on the themes of the prayers. It's great. I think it will make a big difference to the service. And I'm really getting committed to making it happen.
3. As a discussion with
audioboy and bex77 reminded me last month: Ignite some kind of fresh discussion/ideas/work on the topic of gay outreach. FCS's "open and affirming," rainbow-flag campaign has already taken them a long way in terms of community (as well as, let's face it, publicity). The TBS board likes to pay a certain amount of lip service to "open and affirming", but the reality is that I don't see much openness on queer issues, let alone same-sex couples -- which (being in the middle of Cambridge as we are) suggests to me that in real life people do not feel all that welcomed or open. This is not acceptable. The "virtual closet" -- people feeling that it is socially preferable or prudent to keep their mouths shut, even as the straight folks all around them congratulate themselves on how tolerant they are -- is not acceptable. Considering certain of the simchas the community can anticipate in the coming year, it is particularly not acceptable. Just my $0.02, but it's high time.Anyway.
Things I need to do for shul (short-term):
1. Make up a
2. Send an e-mail for
3.
4.
missaligator and ablock) to represent Tremont St. at a GesherCity info session Thursday night.5. Find a suitable hamantashen dough recipe and multiply it to yield approx. 12 dozen, for baking on 3/21. [delegated to
tapuz -- thank you!]Things I need to do for me (short-term):
1. Taxes!
2.
musicjill's chuppah!3. Send off Talley's Folly programs to my faraway dear ones who asked for them.
4. Deliver button orders to
inseriatim andjmspencer (for Charlie Brown).5.
6.
7. Send [the people I did some catalogs for last year] an illustration they need.
8.
9. Make a doctor's appointment for a physical, for which I am ~6 months overdue.
10.
[Tiger Boy: "So, any further thoughts about being in the Yeomen chorus??" Me: "... Aaaaah!"]
Why yes, I actually do intend to accomplish all these short-term things in the next week or two, why do you ask?
Things I want to do for me:
1.
2. Make a gym date for some other time.
3. Make up [more] button stock for Lunacon.
4. See Constantine. I understand it's mediocre at best, but I love that kind of occult shlock.
5. Come to Diesel of a Tuesday to hang out for more than four and a half minutes.
6. Schedule coffee-or-something with
mangosteen.7.
techno_fandom, though Lunacon will probably qualify as that).8. Schedule a visit to
jessruth in New York!9. Go to bed at 11pm tonight. -- I think I can actually do this. Amazing.