updatey update

Round 1 of the fall Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur, 10 days) is now over. I did my "usual" -- which is to say, for the 11th year running, good grief! -- choir gig up in Swampscott, which used to be at Temple Israel until it merged into Shirat Hayam. Every year I say this might be the last year... the money is good, and the people are very nice and make much of me, but (a) playing backup choir to the cantor means I never really get much davening done, and (b) given the choice, my HH davening surely would not include choir and piano to back up the cantor, anyway. :-} But, no really, I'm just not sure how next year is going to work around wedding/honeymoon scheduling. Plus the fact that I would like to spend at least one HH season actually attending tremontstshul for more than R"H afternoon(s) and Ne'ilah.

So anyway. Round 2 of holidays (Sukkot through Simchat Torah, 9 days) starts this Wednesday night. This means I had better finally kasher the oven in time to make something for the tremontstshul potluck sukkah dinner that night. >:-) Helped gedalia and crew put up the sukkah this morning afternoon, though, which was good. Since getting home, I've mostly been puttering around on LJ, on which I am woefully behind.

Besides holidays, the biggest timesink of late is that I have started a not-quite-full-time freelance gig for the rest of the year, at a place out in Concord called Dinardo Design that specializes in producing children's textbooks for Houghton Mifflin. ( It is AWESOME. )

Wedding news: ( or lack thereof: Venues! Registries! Gah! )

Lastly: How did I not know this? Diesel is planning to open a Union Square branch! I haven't seen any actual evidence of this yet, however.

And now, off to Menschen rehearsal.