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. (
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.
( Read more... )( More of my endless to-do list, or, welcome to my world )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 with
mangosteen.
7.
Schedule brunch with the TF gang (no, not
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.