Week in review

[chanaleh]

Happy 30th birthday, 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.)

Comments

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Weren't you going to take a vacation during Xmas/"Winter" break? Or was that family vacation?

You could visit Atlanta and...um...go to the World of Coca-Cola and the CNN headquarters. Actually, the only thing we bring people to see is Stone Mountain. It's creepily hilarious.

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[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

And visit you and Mr. Midwesterner and Patsy Ann, of course :-)

I did get some sort of vacation over New Year's, partly in terms of simple time off, and partly in terms of a trip to see jessruth in NYC. Both aspects were good; and I was thinking above particularly of "break", but "travel" also has its appeal. Road trip!!! I do want to roadtrip around Indiana some more when I go there next (this spring sometime most likely; really gotta carve it into the official schedule), but I also would dig a trip South.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[queendeb.livejournal.com]

i vote yes on the vacation question
and don't know that the retreat counts really very much.

fly!

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the welcome chanaleh! Glad to hear things are better after your hard talks.

Rabbi Israel's wife, Sherry, was my prof for a Hornstein class I took my last year at Brandeis. Nice person.

I think for many of us there's, at some point, a discrepancy between what we say we want/feel and what we actually want/feel (or how we actually behave). Some call it "hypocrisy," others "inconsistency"; I call it "human."

Shabbat Shalom.

The Kosher Pig...

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

...is a really nifty book!