I’m Doubting It All

I thought I believed in Women’s Lib, but I think I may have changed my mind.
 This Shabbos has given me a week’s worth of posts, but I’ll start with this.
 My friend’s parents went to the Agudah Convention this weekend, and left her home alone. This of course means one thing: PARTY IN DA HOUSE!!!!
 Actually not.
 We [...]

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Reigning the Road

I never understood Road Rage.
Then I got behind the wheel.
Yesterday, my car was streaking along the streets of Boro Park. I had no gas in it, and no money on me to fill up. So I was trying to get home ASAP and let the next family member to drive the car collapse in it [...]

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Ipod Patience

I’m in the kitchen; my Ipod is hooked to the stereo, set to random. I don’t like three quarters of the music on my Ipod. I don’t know what three quarter of the music on my Ipod is.
When I flip though it manually I can never decide what to listen to, and when I do, [...]

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Stress Compressed

I’m under a lot of stress.
If I make it to Friday, I hereby declare myself SuperWoman.

I have 11th grade memoirs to mark.
A Thematic Unit to create for a college course
A ten-minute presentation on my independent study project to put together for Tuesday
A section of my thesis is due for review on Tuesday
Marks for first term [...]

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Anticipation Dissipation

I was reflecting on my first ever date…and decided to write a short memior on the experience…enjoy.
 
I was hoping for it to be a memoir, I really wanted it to, something I could relate to my children fondly, nostalgically in years to come, but it didn’t turn out like that.
The last few minutes are the [...]

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Normal is…

I was speaking to my friend, and I can’t remember the course of the conversation, but I ended up mentioning something I had heard on John Schaefer’s “New Sounds” podcast. It was at this point that my friend told me that I needed new pastimes, normal ones. No podcasts, no blogging, mo more drawing on [...]

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Melave Malka Mincings

My school had a Melave Malka last night, fascinating sociological observations.
 
First off, there are a few rules concerning how one is allowed to procure food
 
1)     Never go alone. You must go with at least one other person, even if she just stands next to you without making any motions to take food herself. (If you [...]

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I Am Who You Think I Think I Am

I’m trying to identify the signs of “cool” “nerd” “wannabe” “different” and “rebel”, but I can’t. I just know it.
 
You walk into a classroom; they are all wearing the same uniform, many of them the same hairstyle and accessories, but I can pick them out and identify them correctly based on really nothing: a [...]

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You’re Never Too Old

I met my eighth grade teacher yesterday. She had an appointment in the school that I teach in. I was sitting in the office marking papers, and I heard her voice.
 
All of a sudden I was back in her classroom. I could smell her musty clothes; see her sincere smile, wide with enamel stripped [...]

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Discounting Pride

It’s a paradox that I’ve yet to come to terms with. The people who I am secretly jealous of, but at the same time utterly mortified by.
 
Let me explain.
 
I went out to eat with my friends. I ordered a salad (very original) and she fish with creamed spinach.
 
I got my salad; it had no [...]

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