General update, since I've been so little on LJ for the past 2 weeks

State of the 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. ( LaTeX City, population: me )

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 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 extortion convenience 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 27th I 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) -- and gilana's (the 3rd), whose birthday last year proved such a... festive occasion that we are happy to co-opt its fearsome power. ;-)