Misc-ness, pre-Pesach edition
Mar. 28th, 2007 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidSigns of spring: more early flowers, snowdrops and crocuses (though not nearly as many as I'd expect by now; this winter's atypical weather seems to have interfered with regular plant cycles, at least for the bulbs); teams of rowers on the water for over a week; wearing sandals to work today.
Yesterday was a turkey morning. I was across the street from it, so perhaps I'm imagining things, but it looked rather bigger than the one last week, enough so that I'm wondering whether there's a pair.
Accomplishments: living room cleared out, health receipts found, three more bags of paper recycling out, and the fifth batch of bread dough since Friday rising as I type. No actual Passover cleaning yet, but I'm getting closer.
+ Free lunch at work tomorrow from Milk St.
- To send off one of my favorite people in my current department.
- And it means missing the last of the midday at the meeting house lectures (the topic this week is Amusement Partks and Grand Hotels: Boston Harbor as It Was).
+ There will likely be enough leftovers to cover dinner as well as lunch; one less meal to figure out from my increasingly-bare fridge/freezer.
A couple of rabbis from the Jerusalem Institute have ruled that it is fine for Ashkenazim in Israel to eat kitniyot. Of course, this is being decried by many others, but it's definitely interesting to read about. Perhaps this is the start of a more official shift away from this minhag? Though it doesn't address non-Israelis, so perhaps not, even if it catches on in Israel. (There will always be non-kitniyot-eaters around; the question is whether it might become more of a custom for small communities rather than Ashekenzim as a whole.)
So much to do, so little time, not enough sleep. Already once today it felt like Thursday.
Found this morning while looking for other things: my and my mother's hospital bracelets from when I was born.
eta 1400 I've been given an opportunity to go to this summer's Havurah Institute. Has anyone been? (It seems a bit, well, crunchy compared to my current practice, but there are some cool classes, and a dawn hike up Monadnock, and yoga, and so on...)
Yesterday was a turkey morning. I was across the street from it, so perhaps I'm imagining things, but it looked rather bigger than the one last week, enough so that I'm wondering whether there's a pair.
Accomplishments: living room cleared out, health receipts found, three more bags of paper recycling out, and the fifth batch of bread dough since Friday rising as I type. No actual Passover cleaning yet, but I'm getting closer.
+ Free lunch at work tomorrow from Milk St.
- To send off one of my favorite people in my current department.
- And it means missing the last of the midday at the meeting house lectures (the topic this week is Amusement Partks and Grand Hotels: Boston Harbor as It Was).
+ There will likely be enough leftovers to cover dinner as well as lunch; one less meal to figure out from my increasingly-bare fridge/freezer.
A couple of rabbis from the Jerusalem Institute have ruled that it is fine for Ashkenazim in Israel to eat kitniyot. Of course, this is being decried by many others, but it's definitely interesting to read about. Perhaps this is the start of a more official shift away from this minhag? Though it doesn't address non-Israelis, so perhaps not, even if it catches on in Israel. (There will always be non-kitniyot-eaters around; the question is whether it might become more of a custom for small communities rather than Ashekenzim as a whole.)
So much to do, so little time, not enough sleep. Already once today it felt like Thursday.
Found this morning while looking for other things: my and my mother's hospital bracelets from when I was born.
eta 1400 I've been given an opportunity to go to this summer's Havurah Institute. Has anyone been? (It seems a bit, well, crunchy compared to my current practice, but there are some cool classes, and a dawn hike up Monadnock, and yoga, and so on...)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:13 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:17 pm (UTC)(I have a lot of flour left still.)
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:20 pm (UTC)Don't go out of your way for us, I know you got a lot to get done in the next day or so.
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:38 pm (UTC)And getting rid of flour is part of what I need to get done :-).
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:48 pm (UTC)No, no, I have a
victimrecipient for the flour already (whatever's left after the breadmaking extravaganza, that is).no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 09:47 pm (UTC)