The Runaway Bride

I have disappeared. I will acknowledge that.
 
 I don’t post on my blog
Respond to emails
Call my friends back
Return my students quizzes the next day
Do basic chores
 
I don’t exist or function as a human being.
 
My friends call me a Blissed-Out Bride.
 
I’ve turned into the worst cliché.
 
Now I’m not here to excuse myself, but rather explain.
 
I think [...]

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Copping Out

I’m suffering from a quasi writer’s block. So I’m copping out and posting a MEME that Tembow tagged me in a while ago. It’s half serious, half, well, not so.
Basically I had to complete the sentences…I’m not tagging anyone, but feel free to complete it in the comments section.
1. I wish I could…always be consistent [...]

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I Like Me (Ergo)

We were having a discussion in class about choices,
 mistakes,
decisions,
second chances,
and if you could do it over again
would you?
 
So many of my students said
they’d love to start over
Do it again.
I didn’t want to.
I can think of so many things that when they happened,
I wished had gone differently.
That I had [...]

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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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Patronizing Pretty

I don’t mind going to shul on Shabbos. I even enjoy it. Walking there takes 20 minutes, as does walking home, so I get 40 minutes of walking before I eat the seuda, so then I don’t feel so bad eating what I do.
 
 I actually enjoy leining, I get to know what parsha it is, [...]

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Spare Me Your Honesty

I decided I don’t like honest, blunt people. It’s rude impolite and serves no real purpose other than to let others know how nasty you really are.
I was talking to someone about my friend who was in play with me. The conversation went like this
Me: You should have seen X !It was hysterical, a modern Carol [...]

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Fabulous Food Foolery

Concerning food, I don’t think anyone takes lessons to heart. Yes, we may learn lessons, but we don’t apply them. Come to anything else, If we mess up, we don’t do it again, or do it again, but smarter.
 
If I oversleep, and the rest of my day is spent hiding because I’m wearing two different [...]

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Jumbo Ego

We had Baliboo day in camp.
 
Some staff members thought it would be fun if we organized a few games ourselves.
 
It was fun.
 
I participated in Jumbo. And I won. The rope was above my waist, and I’m extremely high-waisted and not short.
 
I’m still on a high.
 
I’m still reveling in the glory.
 
I am so proud [...]

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Criteria for Success

I love being the “goy” in camp. It gives me carte blanche to say and do anything I want.
 
The interesting thing is the criteria that makes me “the goy”
 
I don’t have any t-shirts with collars.
 
My t-shirts are orange, green, blue, yellow, red…not black, white, pink, lavender or whatever “fine” colors everyone else is wearing. [...]

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Compact Stress

Packing for camp is too stressful for me.
 
I feel like all my possessions are playing hiding-o-seek with me.
 
“Ha ha,” the chant, “you can’t find me!” And then there are those things you forget about completely, like toenail clippers.
 
You might have figured out that I’m packing for camp. Three points for you.
 
Packing makes me cranky.
I [...]

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