Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Flight service feedback for United Airlines.
Dear United Airlines customer service department, I never write letters like this, and I’m usually very easy going, but this experience left me pretty upset, and I figured the customer feedback will be valuable for United Airlines. I was on flight UA84 from Newark to Tel Aviv which departed on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. I…
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New York, New York…
New York, I love you. New York, I hate you. New York, you’re absolutely brilliantly fucking gorgeous. Your soul is as pure as antibacterial hand soap. You lure me in to my self-doubting ambivalence, time and time again. New York, New York. Fuggedaboutit.
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My firehouse.
For months, Koala and I have been discussing our plans for New York. For months, he’s been obsessed with firetrucks, firemen, סמי הכבאי and hoses. And for months, the top of the list was visiting a firehouse. And I’ll freely admit, I was as, if not more, excited about this. Firemen were always curious characters to…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Heat.
I may have stretched this a bit, but I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to show off the fact I hung out with a ROBOT this past week. Week 33: Heat After the PR-2 showed signs of overheating, it was too late – the aggressive characteristics had already set in. If… only I……
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The time the kids met the PR2.
And now for something different… Meet my brother, a robotics engineer Phd student at the University of Pennsylvania. (Disclaimer: I’m not sure if this can realistically say much about me). Meet the PR2, Willow Garage‘s research and innovation robot, which my brother works on with a team at the GRASPY lab in Penn, coding for arm…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Shopping
Never gets old… Quick snap at a Target on Staten Island. I liked that with a little playing around, it looks more like a surreal alien world. Week 32: Shopping Fluorescent shopping wonderland.
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Home.
I looked up when, among the mumbling, I heard the word ‘מעליב.’ Standing in a long, slow-moving line at a Staten Island department store, I suddenly felt at home. And yet, it wasn’t because I was in Staten Island, or a department store. She turned around to complain about the long line in English, and…
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Bebe update: Sixteen months.
Last week, Bebe insisted on ‘walking’ up the two flights of stairs to our apartment, holding the railing and alternating between her feet and knees to pick herself up to the next step. As we got to the top, she indicated I should give her the house key (which I did) and then with a…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Glass.
It’s amazing how many bright sun shiny spots reflecting off car windows you’ll notice while walking around Jerusalem seeking out a glass photo. Week 31: Glass Behind a leafy flowered frame, shines a colorful window pane. Building on Bustanai in Old Katamon, Jerusalem.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Natural.
I wanted to put some effort into this but I’m so surrounded by nature here that I didn’t know where to start. So I took Koala out, promising him a nature walk. He wanted to stay near our building and watch a moving truck get loaded. I suppose that’s only… natural. But I got him…
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Where was your daughter born?
So while initially, after giving birth to my daughter, I was asked very often ‘where did you give birth?’ that question has definitely waned in the last 15 months. It just becomes the sort of question doctors ask you at initial check ups, I guess. And so, oddly, despite everything, I kinda forgot where my…
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Where I am religiously. Part 2.
So – did you smile? I guess I’m feeling a bit philosophical lately because today alone I managed to get myself into a gun control debate that, ahem, triggered… well… no resolutions for me… as well as a different thread about religious observance, pride, and – yeah – Rashi. Basically, a friend posted the above…
Questions? Comments? Advice?