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It was raining here in the Holy Land. Raining and winding. Why can't wind be a verb? I think it should be. It's winding here in the Holy Land. There. If Nick from Frindle can do it, so can I.  So, Wednesday's weather was a good interpretation of my mood: stormy and gloomy and cold. We had a very mean final in computers. It consisted of a grand total of three questions, one of which was impossible, and I don't think I did very well. Oh, well. There are worse things in life. Don't ask me what.  Two Shabboses ago, we had a Shabbos Kallah for Chana, our friend who's getting married this week. There we were, 15 girls in an Airbnb, hoping we would all make it out alive. With 15 girls in close proximity for over 25 hours, who knew what would happen?  But we all did make it out alive, and we had fun while doing it. We played fun games, talked some Torah, had some light conservations (no, that's not a typo), stayed up way later than planned, ate delicious food and d...

Shalom, y'all.  First and foremost, I am feeling fabulous. Baruch Hashem, yesterday I woke up feeling so much better than the past few days  weeks. My throat was a little sore, but nothing that some tea wouldn't fix right up.  That's not to say that I woke up and felt refreshed enough to go to class. No, I definitely skipped the first half-hour of class, but I was feeling fine. So, three cheers for being healthy.  I have finally opened up the chocolate twizzlers that I've been hoarding for many months. Why? Because it's final season. And I do mean season. Not a week, not even two weeks. A full month of finals. 30 days of studying and tests and tears and little-to-no-sleep and many, many, many chocolate twizzlers.  For Shabbos, I went to Ramois which my friend, Chana. She's getting married in two weeks. We have her Shabbos Kallah this week.  Shabbos was very nice. My little cousins liked me somewhat. At least, the littlest one did. The other one just cried ...

Hullo, there. 'Tis the sicko in quaranteeeen (that's for you, Abba). As of now, I'm only in bidud because one of my dira mates tested positive. And because I want an excuse to be antisocial. And because I have much homework that needs to be done. So, now is the perfect time to do it.  So, what has been going on my life? Good question, Augustus!  Honestly, not much. Let's see. Shabbos was really cute. I went to Avigial D's house for Shabbos with Avigayil A. Her parents went away for Shabbos, so it was just us three girlsies. We cooked all the food--and by we, I mean Avigial D--for the entire Shabbos. On Friday night, we went to Rabbi Zucker's shul, which had such a beautiful Kabbalas Shabbos. And then we went back to eat some gourmet food. For all those who don't know, Avigial D. is a gourmet chef.  Obviously, we discussed some books, some Torah topics, talked about dating, sang, and just had a really great time. We went to sleep pretty late, but that's t...

Dear friends and family (and maybe the random, unfortunate person who happens to come across this brain cell-killing blog), I am feeling much better, Baruch Hashem.  I got much sleep the past few days, did not go to school or work, and just read and cried and ate soup. So, a very productive week, I have to say.  Let's first talk about last week. Much happened, I'm sure. I just don't remember most of it. OPS, you see.  I do recall going to two beautiful vorts, one on Wednesday night, the other on Thursday. I went with my friend from Milwaukee, DD Goldner. Some of you might know her from her nickname, Devorah. I got to spend some time with my friend and go to simchas. So that was nice.  For Shabbos, I went to Banay Beraq with mikvah-jumper Avigayil, where I got to practice my non-existent Hebrew some more. The kids actually liked me this time. They let me read them some books, and we played together. It was very nice. Loved spending time with my cousins. And I met some...

Hey, all. Hope you're all alive and kicking. So, I'm kind of a sicko right now. My head hurts, and I don't like my computer.  So, my friend Shloims described the situation perfectly: "Hudi's in a hoodie (or Hoodie's in a Hudi) and she's peacing out." So long, y'all. Have a nice life.  I will try to write a different one later this week if I'm feeling better.  Miss you all.  Toodles from Hoodles!

Shalom, y'all. Let's get right into the crux of the matter, which is, obviously, that  the word moist is the grossest word in the English language. And if you disagree, then you're wrong.  This isn't random. It has very real import in my life. You see, in my line of work (AKA teaching), we run into some issues. Those issues being vowel families. Vowel families, of course, are families of vowels.  Side point: you know those words that you look up in the dictionary, and to define the word they use another form of that word. This came up in our intro to computers class. We were learning about recursion, and Google has a sense of humor. When you look up recursion, Google says, "You mean recursion ." He he he. If you didn't laugh, it means you're not a nerd.  But the definition of recursion is "the  repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition." Well, thanks Google. That clears things up.  Anyway, that was all a tangent. Back to the...

Well, hello there, all of you wonderful persons who don't mind losing a few brain cells each week. Just know, however many you lose by reading this, I lose twice as much writing it. So never fear. Just look how normal I've stayed. He he he.  Though, in all honesty, I think that I have mellowed in my old age.   A very exciting occurrence will happen on Shabbos: I will be odd again! 'Twill be a most wonderful feeling to be odd again. Haven't been odd for a whole year. So that's something to look forward to.  I went to the koisel recently, and it was empty. Walking through the old city was a little scary, because it was only myself and one other person. And it wasn't even such a cold night. It was quite nice to be there with very few other people. I could concentrate much better. This past Shabbos, I was in Ramois with my cousins, the Safers. One of their sons just had a baby girl a month ago, and he and his wife came for Shabbos. So I got to hold a cute little bab...