One more post (including P^3 (preliminary Passover preparations))

[magid]

This year might be the year that I finally run a seder. I think I can go to the first seder with friends, and have been thinking about just how much of a pain in the neck it would be to have the second one at my house. Other than the ritual foods, the rest is just having a nice kosher-for-Passover dinner, which I can do (I can even have enough vegan options :-), and having a nice group of people.

The ritual foods: the shankbone (but my mom has been known to use a turkey/chicken neck, and I've been to vegetarian ones that use a beet (the bloodiest vegetable)), a roasted egg, salt water, fresh veggies for dipping, wine/grape juice, matza (I think for a seder I might get the expensive stuff), ground horseradish(/romaine lettuce), and charoset (a mixture of chopped apples, walnuts, cinnamon, other stuff depending on one's traditions. Supposed to look like mortar, but tastes yummy.). Of all of these, the trickiest one would be the last, since I have so few implements of kosher for Passover food torture. This could be overcome.

The guests: well, that's another question. I know that I want a seder where all the basics are read (in whichever language, which would likely default to English, or Hebrew-followed-by-English-translation), and people actually discuss the things that interest them, rather than the "are we ready for dinner yet?" that can happen sometimes. Frankly, I'll be off work the next day, so I don't much care how late it goes (though it won't start until after dark, ie when the second day starts). Ideally, we'd be a group of 6-8 people, since smaller than that feels just too small for a seder, and larger than that starts to strain the space I have.
Thoughts? People who are interested?

On the radio this morning, there was a plug for somewhere that offers "independent living apartments." I assume they put a hyphen between the first two words, which, in some lights, seems absurd: aren't all apartments like that, unless billed otherwise? I started wondering, however, what it would be like if there had been a hyphen between the last two words... I could just hear the apartment not letting me have too much junk food, or making me do the laundry before LJ surfing, or...

Typo otD: solving problems by stimulation
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Comments

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Ah, you've just given me a flashback to my days as a proofreader for the phone book. If you're fond of finding absurd typos, there's no better way to spend a summer!

Some of the better examples I prevented from being immortalized in black and yellow:

Lounges And Parking for A Thousand Cars!
KASO plastics: Injection molding with integrity-free cost estimates.
John Ellis, hypnotist: I can cure you of the urge to smoke at reasonable rates!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Nice examples.

In this case, an outside reviewer had caught the typo, and commented that math class would be much more fun this way... :-)

That typo rocks

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Heh. *snicker*

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[magid.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in an adult ed math class...?

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[bitty.livejournal.com]

hm, i've been meaning to sign up for a math review course before i take the GREs...

Re: That typo rocks

[magid.livejournal.com]

There are all sorts of math topics that wouldn't make it into a textbook that could be put into an adult ed class... what will the review cover?

(btw, if you want to go over math stuff sometime, I'd be willing to do that.)
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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Just to reiterate from the in-person conversation, I would love to attend a Seder at your place. When I hosted a vegan Seder, we used a roasted beet for the shankbone and eggplant for the eggs. They looked real enough that guests were fooled until they picked them up. :) I have a write-up I did of it for (I think) a veg list that I can possibly dig up if you're interested.

Also, I can do the Hebrew and I know the tunes, though I suppose it's possible they are different from yours. I like to do reading in English, if otherwise most people won't understand it, but singing in Hebrew.

I have a vegan Passover cookbook, btw.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Cool. That makes two of us :-).

Would you have a problem with using an egg? (People picked them up? Off the seder plate? I haven't done that before.)

I'd be interested in seeing the veg list, and the vegan Passover cookbook, too. Right now, I figure I can make some kind of veggie soup, quinoa, roasted veggies, other veggie things, fruit compote, stuff like that. But new ideas are good :-).

I'm cool with either English or Hebrew; I have a tendency to read along to myself in Hebrew anyway (right now, of course, most of us = both of us. Know anyone who wants to come to a seder?) We always sang things in Hebrew, except for Had Gadya, which we did in English (I don't know of any reason for that one only). Depending on how many tunes there are and how tired/hungry people are, we can do duplicates... :-)
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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with egg on your plate, no. :) People picked them up because we'd described the Seder as vegan and they said "but those are eggs!" so we encouraged them to take a closer look.

If I don't see you before then, I'll bring the cookbook along next Wednesday.

I can really go any which way on the languages. I just like when there is someone besides me who can sing the various songs and other bits. Um, where by "can sing" I mean in the sense of knowing the tune, because I sing terribly, so it's in everybody's interest for me not to be the only one. :)

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

It sounds wonderful; I think our ideas of how a seder should be run agree. However, I'll be down in MD with family for the first half of pesach, so have to say no. (I've gotten more seder invites this year than I have in years; wish things were this easy around t-day, where I'm always wondering what to do)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I'm glad you have plans, but it would've been cool had you been able to come.

Btw, I tend to make the big November meal, too, so if you want to come along, you're definitely welcome.