General update, since I've been so little on LJ for the past 2 weeks
Saturday, September 24th, 2005 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
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chanaleh:
New job is great. I did feel distinctly homesick on Monday -- which is a very unusual sensation for me -- but shortly thereafter I was already beginning to feel settled in. The people are great, the work is exciting (overall). I'm learning to code LaTeX. My opinions are being solicited. I feel really good.
The commuting on the other hand is indeed a bit strenuous: roughly 2.5 hours a day (round-trip of course), half an hour on the T and an hour apiece of commuter rail and walking -- which is something I can certainly stand to incorporate into my life, if I can keep it up! Packing my own lunch is also proving a useful discipline; I've been so used to eating out, and at my new office there's just nowhere that nearby to go (for that matter, it's the first time in 10 years I haven't worked next door to a Starbucks). But between the walking and the new schedule of eating breakfast at 6:30am, I am ravenous come lunchtime. I suspect food prep will become a bigger part of my weekends than it's ever been.
Oh, and last night we put on a Shabbat dinner for 80 people, including two Livnot staffers who were (are) visiting from Israel. It was exhausting, but overall it went off brilliantly.
State of the Tiger Boy: Excellent. I may be writing something longer and sappier soon, but probably only the girls will be able to read it, so hah.
Public service announcements:
chanaleh:New job is great. I did feel distinctly homesick on Monday -- which is a very unusual sensation for me -- but shortly thereafter I was already beginning to feel settled in. The people are great, the work is exciting (overall). I'm learning to code LaTeX. My opinions are being solicited. I feel really good.
The commuting on the other hand is indeed a bit strenuous: roughly 2.5 hours a day (round-trip of course), half an hour on the T and an hour apiece of commuter rail and walking -- which is something I can certainly stand to incorporate into my life, if I can keep it up! Packing my own lunch is also proving a useful discipline; I've been so used to eating out, and at my new office there's just nowhere that nearby to go (for that matter, it's the first time in 10 years I haven't worked next door to a Starbucks). But between the walking and the new schedule of eating breakfast at 6:30am, I am ravenous come lunchtime. I suspect food prep will become a bigger part of my weekends than it's ever been.
Oh, and last night we put on a Shabbat dinner for 80 people, including two Livnot staffers who were (are) visiting from Israel. It was exhausting, but overall it went off brilliantly.
State of the Tiger Boy: Excellent. I may be writing something longer and sappier soon, but probably only the girls will be able to read it, so hah.
Public service announcements:
- Tonight at 7pm, gilana and I (and moria923 and heliopsis and many other talented folks) are performing at this Broadway Night fundraiser at First Church in Davis Sq. You should all come if you're (a) free and (b) at all entertained by the idea of a closing singalong (or, conversely, of me and Gilly in slinky black gowns and feather boas). It'll be cute, and you get dessert.
- Also tonight, at 10pm: Selichot (a pre-Rosh Hashanah service) at
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tremontstshul, for those who are interested. - Next Friday night, Sept. 30, at 8pm (after shul): Sean Altman and Five O'Clock Shadow perform at Ryles. Tickets are $12 (plus $2.50 apiece
extortionconvenience charge for advance purchase). I'm going to buy tickets online later this week. Feel free to buy your own advance tickets (or at-door, of course, if that's your thing), but anyone interested in joining my order should speak up by Tuesday latest. - Party at ablock's house! Saturday, Oct. 1, 8pm-3am. Nominally this covers ablock's own birthday (the
27thI mean, of course, 24th), but as we're having it so early in the month this year, really it's more about mine (the 6th) -- andgilana's (the 3rd), whose birthday last year proved such a... festive occasion that we are happy to co-opt its fearsome power. ;-)