Month: February 2006
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Desserts before dinner?!
Courtesy of… God. I keep wondering what I did to deserve for all of the events of the last year and a half to come so relatively easy to me, but it keeps ammounting that I haven’t done anything prior to deserve it. So I feel I’m supposed to be a good person from now…
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Change for a dollar?
I should have seen it coming, and I guess I was mislead by coming back here in the summer and everything seemingly the same in New York. It seems, though, that nothing escapes it – change for a dollar. Or, change for The Dollar. Maybe it’s them that are different: working hard, working too hard…
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NYC Blizzard 2006
The results:
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Etgar Keret in the NY Times.
February 12, 2006 Lives Suddenly, the Same Thing By ETGAR KERET “I just hate terrorist attacks,” the thin nurse says to the older one. “Want some gum?” The older one takes a piece and nods. “What can you do?” she says. “I hate emergencies, too.” “It’s not the emergencies,” the thin one insists. “I have…
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Neo-Zionism.
Brought to you by Kumah.org: Neo-Zionism I have comments, but I’ll keep them to myself. Kumah to me is complex. I know people involved heavily, and at the same time, I know people involved heavily. I know what they are thinking. I get the message. Although, I do have to say: using Keanu Reeves as…
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The Big N-Y-C… again.
Oh, New York City. I didn’t realize just how much I missed it before I left. Or at least, that it’s relative. In Israel, before I left, I was itching for a vacation anyway, and more than that, to be back in NYC for even just these two weeks. And then the day after I…
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Tipping point.
So I’m leaving Israel for New York on a two week trip. Really, I got the ticket for a low low price and I’m allowed to work from home to save vacation days, so it was just a convenient way to visit my parents. After getting engaged, I needed a trip home to see my…
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Bus #5
Somehow, I have this sick obsession with bus systems intracity. I yearn to discover new routes and learn by heart the secrets of the ones I take regularly. …maybe it’s a way to feel like I’m backpacking again without spending more than 6 shekel on the trip… Anyways, the Jerusalem Egged system has come out…
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מבחן סופי is just another test…
It’s just a test!I’m working at a full time job, supporting myself alone, planning a wedding, setting up a permanent residence… Something had to go, didn’t it? And there’s always Moed Bet. מבחן סופי is just another test after all… It just happens to be a big one. [There I go, further and further into…
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A picture is worth – what???
Aw c’mon. We’re always getting shit from you guys. The cartoons that inspired this: (Haaretz) (Al Jazeera)
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How's the weather?
‘?קצת שמש ופתאם זה קיץ’
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שלום בית
I can proudly say that for the first time since moving here, and for the first time ever since high school: I have a permanent residence. My bills can come to my address;My friends can know where to find me;I can invest in decent furniture/appliances;I can have as many guests as I want without asking…