Elephant Jokes

I'm drawing a serious blank. I know that this past week happened, but I don't know what happened this past week. 

Let me think, let me think. I know that's kind of a dangerous pastime for me, but desperate times call for desperate measures. 

Oh, on Thursday, I went with Devorah S. (truly a malach) to Ramois Bet to get sheitels! Isn't that crazy? I would post a picture here, but I think I'm making ridiculous and/or pained and/or tortured faces in every picture. I'm being only slightly dramatic; it actually wasn't so bad, and I ended up getting two sheitels. Look at me, all grown up and...and saving China. 

What else, what else?

Oh! I remember Shabbos. I was in Har Nof for a bar mitzvah. The Lessins (a famed Richmond family) were making a bar mitzvah for their oldest son, and they invited me, which was super sweet. 

I stayed by my friend's apartment, and I ate the meals with the family. It was such a beautiful simcha. Was super social, hocked it up with the family and family friends, listened to the speeches and singing, and enjoyed the simcha. I also had a great time hanging out with my friend in Har Nof.

Motzei Shabbos, I went to my future in-laws. We had a cute little melave malka there, with some pizza and some singing and dancing. Obviously not from me, not only 'cause it's kind of assur, but also because I still have them fooled for at least a little while longer. 

So, school is fun. Or not. Yeah, it ain't fun. In the slightest. We have this huge project that's going to be 50% of our grade and is supposed to take us hours and hours each week, and we have absolutely no idea what to do. During our class on Monday, we all were crying to our teacher, who doesn't really speak a fluent English, and he was trying to explain things to us but didn't fully get what we were asking, and it was all just very unfortunate and painful for everyone involved. 

Besides for that, we had another interesting experience in one of our classes, math logic. Our teacher spent more than 30 minutes disproving a claim, and we all understood it, like the good little mathematicians we are forced to be in this degree. And then we get to our homework, and the question asks us to prove what he just spent the better part of an hour disproving. So that was awkward, to say the least. 

After last week's blog post, I got a few more questions about my chosson, this time from @Mr.RussMyUndad. Let's go through them together: 

Q1: Does he know about your crazy and cute (no one thinks it's cute) laugh? 

You mean my unfortunate dolphin/seal/dying cow/dying horse/frog with a cold laugh? No, he does not. After all, he still proposed. 

Q2: Does he know about your dad's sense of humor? 

That's pretty much asking if he knows Get Smart and elephant jokes. And no, he does not. After all, he's only met my father over zoom. And a 30 minute zoom meeting in the middle of a park in Modiin is not the best place for his introduction to the world of elephant jokes. 

And now, coming right after these questions come some from @Ms.HeniMyUnmom: 

Q3: Does he know about 4613 and the ‘sleep-ins’ and the craziness of it all including the rock and the results of that rock in the ground?

That is one loaded question. Do I even know all of those things? No, he doesn't know about my sordid past as a girl scout. 

Q4: Does he know about your ability to name every shark by its Latin name?

Well, on our first date I told him that I'm low-key obsessed with sharks for no apparent reason, and he got very concerned when I proceeded to say that if he didn't propose I would feed him to my pet shark Charlie Hobbes (who's dead, and even when he was alive, he was about 6 inches long). Sorry, that didn't answer the question. That was just me rambling.  

Q5: Does he know about ‘jokes’ and your book?

He knows what jokes are. Indeed, I have told him a few. Obviously not elephant jokes, but that will all come in good time. And he knows what books are, as well. He really only reads Hebrew ones, though. 

See, I wasn't kidding when I said I would answer any other questions. So, bring them on. 

And now, I should go listen in class. We're talking about vectors and rays and pixels and lots of terms that I don't know and don't care about, but everyone else seems to know what's going on, so maybe if I listen, I'll figure it out. Wish me luck!

Toodles from Hoodles!