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Week in review
Friday, February 20th, 2004 10:15 am
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xiphias!
Welcome,besamim! (Hey, remember that book you once gave me for my birthday, The Kosher Pig by Rabbi Richard Israel, z"l? His daughter and her family now go to my shul. I was floored when I learned he was her father. That book is probably the single most frequent object of comment when people are perusing my Judaica bookshelf; I must have read the first chapter to half a dozen people. :-)
(Oh yeah, and Allegra Goodman goes to my shul too. I love Cambridge.)
Wednesday night, went with C (now over his awful stomach bug) to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra; it was bloody brilliant. (Rowr!) Ran into Bressen and Amelia so we sat with them, which was extra fun. (I SLEEP NOW!) Last night I actually tried to go see it again withkalessin and Matti and cheesyhill, but THE POWER WAS OUT in the Kendall Sq. Cinema! So we had to content ourselves with quite a nice dinner at the CBC instead.
Saw an interesting footnote yesterday in a book I was working on:
"Surveys [measure] what researchers call 'stated preference', to distinguish what people say they like or want from 'revealed preference', which is what we observe them actually buying or doing."
It jumped off the page at me because this is a dichotomy I've had reason to think about lately, with regard to my own life (in manifold ways, including emotionally). More reflection to come on that topic, I hope.
As noted, there've been some difficult talks withtenore this week. But I think we're in a better place at the moment than we've been lately. Brunch date for Sunday, yay.
Meanwhile -- 20s & 30s Shabbat dinner at the shul tonight. Whole lotta Torah reading to learn for tomorrow. Just another week-end. *sigh* I should take a vacation, and soon. I don't think next weekend's synagogue retreat necessarily counts. (But maybe it will. Getting completely out of range of highway noise is always a plus.)
xiphias!Welcome,
besamim! (Hey, remember that book you once gave me for my birthday, The Kosher Pig by Rabbi Richard Israel, z"l? His daughter and her family now go to my shul. I was floored when I learned he was her father. That book is probably the single most frequent object of comment when people are perusing my Judaica bookshelf; I must have read the first chapter to half a dozen people. :-)(Oh yeah, and Allegra Goodman goes to my shul too. I love Cambridge.)
Wednesday night, went with C (now over his awful stomach bug) to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra; it was bloody brilliant. (Rowr!) Ran into Bressen and Amelia so we sat with them, which was extra fun. (I SLEEP NOW!) Last night I actually tried to go see it again with
kalessin and Matti and cheesyhill, but THE POWER WAS OUT in the Kendall Sq. Cinema! So we had to content ourselves with quite a nice dinner at the CBC instead.Saw an interesting footnote yesterday in a book I was working on:
"Surveys [measure] what researchers call 'stated preference', to distinguish what people say they like or want from 'revealed preference', which is what we observe them actually buying or doing."
It jumped off the page at me because this is a dichotomy I've had reason to think about lately, with regard to my own life (in manifold ways, including emotionally). More reflection to come on that topic, I hope.
As noted, there've been some difficult talks with
tenore this week. But I think we're in a better place at the moment than we've been lately. Brunch date for Sunday, yay.Meanwhile -- 20s & 30s Shabbat dinner at the shul tonight. Whole lotta Torah reading to learn for tomorrow. Just another week-end. *sigh* I should take a vacation, and soon. I don't think next weekend's synagogue retreat necessarily counts. (But maybe it will. Getting completely out of range of highway noise is always a plus.)