I am full of early Christian awesome

I ended up finishing my draft at 9:30! Not 11, which is when Andover closes. Not 10, which is when Widener closes. But 9:30. And now I have to go and apply hatam_soferet's edits, which are minor enough, so I assume my argument isn't seriously flawed and that my analysis makes sense and I can hand this paper in. Which means I could spend tomorrow morning spinning and watching Law and Order (currentlee told me the secrets of the PS2 parental controls- just press 'x' a lot) until I have to take the bus to campus, and then come home from my appointment, learn my leining, spin some more if there's time, get showered and dressed, and head off to services. I'm leading maariv.

Unfortunately, I found out that there's a grad student Shabbat dinner tomorrow that I can't go to, because it's at the same time as the Tremont Street 20s and 30s meal I'm already going to. The grad student dinner would be closer (and it has meat). Though I can still make the Tremont one because SCM services start at 5:15 (and go till about 6:30 at latest) and Tremont egal starts at 6:30 and goes till...um...significantly later than that. Then the walk from SCM to Tremont is not so long. Not as long as egal services. navelofwine and elfsdh- are you guys davening at SCM or are you just egal-ing?

Then I have to decide whether or not I'm going to gaming and whether or not I'm staying over (walking Rachel home sig?). This affects how much stuffs I bring. I'm learning my leining before Shabbat so I don't need to bring the tikkun. It's a long aliyah, but it has the last shalshelet, which I am coveting, and thus must lein it. (I'm too lazy to provide links for the obscure Hebrew words. If you're that curious, wikipedia is your friend.) Oh wait. Not the last. There's one in Leviticus?!?! I thought they were all in Genesis. (This seems to be in a random sacrifice passage. Maybe Wikipedia is wrong. I need a tikkun to check and am too lazy to stand up and get it off my bookshelf.) I guess I'll have to lein that one, too!

And since this week's parsha is the Joseph story, we're supposed to wear many colors. I want to finish my clapotis shawl and wear that (it's very shiny and multi-colored) but alas it won't be done in time. This also means I don't have it for the dinner tomorrow and thus cannot wear a dazzling outfit, since I don't currently own one. This shawl would be worn with all black, and would be all that I needed for shinyness. Oh well.

Oooh! I could bring stuffs ahead of time, dropping it off when I go to my appointment, and bringing it home after Shabbat, thus making me not have to carry it 3+ miles total or whatever the distance is walking back and forth.

Oh wait. I see a dazzling skirt. Not as cool as the shawl, but it will have to do. Some day I will have my dream shawl, and it will be shiny, and all will submit to its powers of shinyness.

Stuff that didn't make it into the last post

I just realized that me being done with the paper means I can pretty much play Katamari all day (when I'm not in class) for the rest of the semester. I just have one more scholarly reflection paper left and that's it until after break. I should probably start the Machinist paper now, though, so I don't die a horrible death in that class.

Also, because it is full of awesome, I present you with ( 1A Corinthians )

There are footnotes in it that show where the translation departs from the [ficticious] Greek, in the style of the NRSV. Mostly this is with the gender-inclusive language they add, which I mimicked because I was bored and because it was amusing to write. Actually, the whole paper was amusing to write. Yay!

And the 99 Red Balloons story:

After German yesterday I went up to Dr. S. and told her that I had the song stuck in my head since Monday's class. She said that in "Grosse Point Blank" there was a main character who was a hit man. He was at his high school reunion, and at one point had to kill a bad guy and then he and his friend were throwing the body in the furnace in order to get rid of it, and in this scene, 99 Red Balloons was playing in the background, in German. And she thought, "why would they have a German song for a scene where they're throwing a body into a furnace...oh." But she decided against telling that story to the class, probably for good reason. Though it's surprising how many of our texts in this class are about people who were fighting against the Nazi regime.

*Edit* Also, my shiny new 3lb laptop is on the way! Yay!

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I handed it in. Huzzah! (Now to play Katamari for a bit before I need to go to campus...)