I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

First off, congrats to the fabulous jessruth, newly-minted Master of Social Work! Note that I am bravely resisting the urge to use BLINK TAGS to show you all how proud I am of her. But imagine they're there.

So it's Tuesday, I've been at the New Job more than a week now, and -- ki tov, ki tov. :-) The first two days were a little slow, leaving me wondering what in the world I was doing there, despite how pleased and excited everyone seemed to have me on board. But then things I can Actually Do start to trickle in, and suddenly I see where I fit in. And it does seem a remarkably good fit. And it turns out that wearing skirts every day is not, actually, problematic.

Meanwhile, Tiger Boy has been in the Grand Canyon on a father-and-son rafting trip all this week -- completely out of phone range, never mind email (in fact he left the phone back with the luggage in the hotel storage). More than anything else, it's weird to get ready for bed by myself. *sigh* But I have, needless to say, been keeping insanely busy in his absence. ( Such as going to NYC for Shabbat instead of assembling wedding invitations. )

I WILL be working on invitations tonight, and possibly some of tomorrow night, if any crafty people feel like coming over to help me punch holes and tie ribbons. :-)

Thursday night is the tremontstshul Lag B'Omer BBQ. Unfortunately, it is simultaneous with the penultimate rehearsal for SomerVaudeVille. Fortunately, the effect of that has been to (finally!) mobilize the Great Reduce-Dependence-On-Erica Campaign, spearheaded by ablock and brass_rat, both of whom rock.

And Tiger Boy will be flying in this coming Friday morning, on the redeye... just in time to hear Neil Gaiman on Friday night! We bought 8 tickets from MIT the day they came out (thanks to a word from nacht_musik); everyone said "Oh, it's Kresge, no danger of it selling out" but, ha ha, millionyear and pandemonium_bks have done a bang-up job of peddling the tickets and, lo and behold, there may not be any left on site the night of the event! We have 1 of our 8 left, though; anyone want to join us? Preference will be given to those who are NOT being tapped to help cover services at tremontstshul at the same hour. :-}

And now, to get dressed and eat breakfast, 'cause -- aah! must leave the house in 25 minutes!!