mini update

so i know i haven't posted about much lately. and i know i still need to blog the rest of my israel photos plus stuff about limmudny. but i figured since i had a few minutes i should write a few thoughts cause that's the point of a blog, right?

just a minute can change everything. sounds cliche right? but it's just totally true. it all began last week on tuesday afternoon (a week ago tuesday, so that was actually on jan 31). i woke up not feeling great; i thought i was getting over a cold but in fact the cold was just getting ready to do me in. first i had a stuffy nose. then a sore throat. then as i was taking a relaxing bus ride home from jts, it happened. i was blowing my nose and my left ear just started to hurt. and i mean really really hurt. it was clogged from all the pressure of blowing i think; like when you fly in an airplane? that sort of feeling. except extremely painful. i went home and rested before hebrew school that afternoon. after class i wasn't feeling much better. my ear hurt so much! i was in serious pain. on wednesday i slept in, didn't go to class, and went to the doctor as soon as i could. he took one look inside my ear and told me i had an ear infection.

ear infection! !דלקת באוזן

yikes. i used to get them all the time when i was a kid. this is not like how i remember. i am telling you my ear was in serious pain from that tuesday afternoon until this past tuesday when i finally went back to school and work, but only because i really had to; my ear still hurt until later that day. oy! for a week i barely left the house. luckily i had antibiotics and tylenol with coedine drugging me up. but once tuesday happened, i was psyched to get back into the game.

what a game it was!!! tuesday i had an impromptu lunch with some of my all time favorite jts people. DA, JF, AP, JG and L?. and if that wasn't cool enough, we ate OUTSIDE in the courtyard. can you imagine? outside in feb? it wasn't like 70 degrees or anything, but it was warm enough to be out with jackets and without hats. score!

tue night i staffed the homeless shelter at jts with BS. so great. she totally was there for me when i needed her. slubmer party baby! we talked about our new dream which is to hike the AT for a week in june. wahoo! i hope it works out.

wed i had a leisurely lunch with yg, followed be delicious 2 hour nap. i deserved it! wed. night was not as productive as it could have been, but i had some chill visitors such as YZ and JM who rock, so no worries there. why go out when fun people arrive at your door expecdting nothing besides your company?

thu brought more good news - quite a productive day doing my own "real nyc freelancer" thing most of the day. then at hebrew school a few of my kids admitted to one another during snack that they have been saying blessings over their food at public school snack! how freakin cool is that? i mean just really freakin cool i am telling you.

then i ran back to the upper right [east] side for storytelling workshop with master Jewish storyteller Peninah Schram. it was fabulous!

on friday i had three great hevruta [partner study] sessions in the beit midrash, just in time to make fabulous shabbat plans, including breakfast and lunch with my parents on sat and the compnay of MV, ES, and WC at the Michael Lerner event fri night.

then today i spend a bunch of time with the parents who left nyc early to avoid the beautiful snow that is now falling all around us. lucky for me this meant i got to check out the bj havdallah event which gave me a chance to catch up with a million people including BS (again), DI, AC, AB, AFR, LT, LF and finally meet KM. ridiculous! (in a good way)

just got back from quality time at the city diner with DI, AC, AB, AFR and KM - half a veggie burger and a cup of red wine later, i am ready to go to sleep at an hour reasonable enough for me to get up in the morning for an eco-zionism program i am leading downtown at town and village synagogue in the morning. wish me luck!

shavua tov.