honored

my friend z had a baby boy last tuesday (well, monday night, which on the jewish calendar is tuesday, since the day starts at sundown.), and today was the bris (aka brit milah/ ritual circumcision). last night z called and asked me to make motzi (blessing over the bread, at the beginning of the meal after the operation.). i'm honored she thought to ask me. everything ran late this morning (big surprise), but i did make motzi, and stayed for most of the talks explaining why they chose elisha moshe as his name.

may he grow to have joy and passion, knowledge and wisdom.

working...

i got my chapter out the door this morning (hooray!), and got another chapter's tech art on its way as well. and i have no motivation to start on the next chapter, with 40 minutes 'til i leave for the day. so i'll post here instead (how long can i take to post this...?).

so, notes from a workday. today we were given, yet again, copies of the company's equal employment opportunity policy (also the sexual harrassment policy). why they feel a need to email everyone AND give us hard copies, i don't know. what a waste of time. queue pointed out a wonderful inconsistency: in the first paragraph, they assure us they run a company that does not make employment decisions based on race, creed, sex, etc etc etc. and the second paragraph says they have an affirmative action plan to recruit more minorities, women, vets, etc. hm. copy-edit, anyone?

(hooray for email. yet another time-suck when i want one!)