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Happy Elul/September!

+ much bike riding the end of last week
- missing a turn and being later than planned to the auction
+ end-of-circus-camp performance at the JCC (though some choices of music were rather questionable)
+ discovering a farm stand next to the JCC
+ hosting Shabbat dinner
+ going out for Shabbat lunch
+ being part of a bridal posse to the mikvah (a first for me)
+ meeting new people
- missing non-local people
~ being very conscious of not being on the playa
+ wedding! (mazal tov!)
- forgetting to bring poi for schtick
- not recharging the camera battery beforehand
+ excellent tablemates at the reception (plus some significant fraction of my friends list)
- not enough biking the beginning of this week
+ spin jam
+/- finishing Octavia Butler's novels (excellent reading... but now there's no more)
- fruit flies
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+ watching a bat flittering around Killian Court as it got dark
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Two upcoming (free) talks that may be of interest to locals.

1. Covering Israel: An Inside View
   Talk by Correspondent Linda Gradstein
   Thursday, September 11, 7-9 pm, at Temple Beth Zion, 1566 Beacon Street, Brookline
   
2. The Middle East and the Environment: Striving Towards Excellence in Transboundary Environmental Management
   Clive Lipchin, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Ben Gurion University
   Monday, September 15, 5-7 pm, MIT, Von Hippel Room, 13-2137
   RSVP to David Dolev at mit-israel@mit.edu