The usual post-shabbas post

As you all know, this was my first Shabbat back at Penn. I'll cut this into sections for longness:

( the prep )

( Friday Night )

( Saturday morning )

( rant on appearances/self confidence/dieting )

( ok, fine, back to my day... )

( Afternoon )

( late afternoon )

( tonight )

And speaking of food- Hopefully I'll be making deli-roll tomorrow. Originally I thought I'd invite y'all to my apartment, but seeing as it's a) small with limited seating and b) cluttered with unpacked boxes, I think I'll do it in the 4th floor lounge. I'm sure no one will mind. If you're reading this, consider yourself invited. I'm not sure how many deli-rolls I have, so this isn't a full meal, but a tasting of deli-roll, to educate the new freshmen. And because I want some.


*An LJ-update about an LJ update. Is that allowed?
**See this entry if you want to get the reference.

Ow.

My upper arms hurt. Can someone please give me a massage tomorrow? (hint, hint arigi,cynara_linnaea,ozaku_kangaroo.) You can be paid in deli-roll if you'd like.

But yeah. Owness.

Camera!

So my mom just e-mailed me, and said it was fine if I went and bought a new digital camera, so long as it's not too expensive. Meanwhile, due to my super-mashing, I'll have made 124$ by the end of today, and I still have the rest of September to go! Usually I mash 7-8 hours in a month, 12 tops. So I could just buy the camera with my own money, or add that to whatever my parents are contributing.

Now here's the audience/reader participation bit. I'm quite undecided as to what I want. I know I want something small and hobbity, easy to upload, I don't need too many fancy features though if it could hold up in archaeology-land that would be nice.

One option is boroparkpyro's shiny Casio exilim*. Is it just me or does exilim sound like Hebrew?

If I wanted to put the extra money in, I could get the Optio WPI that I originally had before it tragically got lost. Actually, googling it, it seems to have come down in price from the 320$ that I** originally paid in December for it.

And then of course I'm sure there are tons of other cameras. So give me suggestions. (Especially people like maric23 and groovin_reuven who know what they're doing with cameras.) I will be forever thankful.

I'll probably go downtown camera shopping tomorrow, if I have time before Ari's l'chaim. How long does it take to get to Statten Island? Otherwise I'll go Tuesday. And I still have no clue how I'm getting to Ari's l'chaim...

In other news, I'm progressing a lot on the new kippah, since I have all that mashing-time in which to crochet.


*Not his actual camera, but the same model that he has.
**"I" meaning "my parents"