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Jan. 12th, 2008 08:51 pmI finished the paper yesterday at around 4:15, which is when candlelighting was. I think I printed it out within the 18 minutes, and then a classmate was in the library with me so he handed in the paper for me. I actually had to break Shabbat to leave the library, since the door is electric. And the paper still did not get any, even when it was 15 pages long.
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navelofwine- Thank you so much for your editing. I ended up not implementing all of the elaboration changes as fully as I could or should have because I ran out of time, but you were definitely right that all those places needed elaboration. I'll send you the final paper if you want to read it for fun. Hopefully the rest isn't too atrocious.)
( events of this Shabbat )
You'd think that would be the end of the story, except I came home to a missing ball of yarn that I need for my project. Luckily I can pick up a new one tomorrow, but until then my llama scarf is on hold. I put it on other needles (size 8, as opposed to size 9) so I can use the size 9 needles from it to starthatam_soferet's scarf, since the size 8 ones failed because the yarn was too wide for it. I'm making an Irish Hiking Scarf, though I wanted to do the Palindrome but realized it would eat up too much yarn and the yarn might be too thick to do it anyways. The latter is almost the same as the former, except the latter is double-sided as opposed to there being a right and wrong side. Hence the name "Palindrome."
And now I have to study for my Jewish History final and write the Stone vessels paper. I'm going to reverse what I did last time and study first and then work on the rest of the paper. There's also some exam issues I'm having in terms of my ability to use a laptop for the giant 3-hour essay exam: FAS student disabilities services did not contact me until yesterday to tell me they needed my documentation from Div School disabilities. Unfortunately I got this e-mail as I was finishing the Machinist Paper of Doom and did not have the time to go to the Div School disabilities and then to FAS disabilities to give them paperwork. I forwarded the Div School the FAS e-mail, but the exam is on Monday morning at 9:15. It's their fault for not contacting me sooner when they said they would contact me, but now I'm screwed. I won't die if I take the exam by hand, but it will be very painful and I shouldn't have to. Maybe I'll bring the wrist brace to look more sad and pathetic and the FAS proctor dude will take pity on me. If it were either my Prof or TF who was administering the exam I would be fine (or if they had gone through HDS to give the exam) but since FAS is doing it, I'm a lot less fine.
Now to studying. I'll exist briefly tomorrow forbrokenwndw's birthday celebration and the Vericon meeting, but I should be studying/papering all day beyond that. Hopefully I'll be productive.
1The first of the 2 Friday night services, literally "welcoming Shabbat," where we welcome in Shabbat. It consists almost entirely of singing, when done correctly. It could also entirely consist of quiet mumbling, which is a really sad occurrence. I feel like when it isn't sung, it's a horrible waste of a perfectly good service, and I feel I've been robbed of an essential Shabbat experience. Strangely enough, if I just don't go to kabbalat Shabbat period, I don't mind as much, since I'm not having the non-singingness shoved in my face.It's my favorite service.
2Lecha Dodi is one of the prayers in kabbalat Shabbat, probably the climax of the service. It has verses and a chorus, and pretty much any standard tune in 4/4 time can be used for it. Since it's a long song, people often use 2 tunes, which is a good thing since if you only get one Lecha Dodi a week, you want to maximize the tunes you can use. I also am a fan of varying the tunes and not using the same one every week. This is why Conservative kabbalat Shabbat at Penn had the potential to annoy me, though at least they usually sang everything, which cannot be said of the Orthodox minyan there.
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navelofwine- Thank you so much for your editing. I ended up not implementing all of the elaboration changes as fully as I could or should have because I ran out of time, but you were definitely right that all those places needed elaboration. I'll send you the final paper if you want to read it for fun. Hopefully the rest isn't too atrocious.)( events of this Shabbat )
You'd think that would be the end of the story, except I came home to a missing ball of yarn that I need for my project. Luckily I can pick up a new one tomorrow, but until then my llama scarf is on hold. I put it on other needles (size 8, as opposed to size 9) so I can use the size 9 needles from it to start
hatam_soferet's scarf, since the size 8 ones failed because the yarn was too wide for it. I'm making an Irish Hiking Scarf, though I wanted to do the Palindrome but realized it would eat up too much yarn and the yarn might be too thick to do it anyways. The latter is almost the same as the former, except the latter is double-sided as opposed to there being a right and wrong side. Hence the name "Palindrome."And now I have to study for my Jewish History final and write the Stone vessels paper. I'm going to reverse what I did last time and study first and then work on the rest of the paper. There's also some exam issues I'm having in terms of my ability to use a laptop for the giant 3-hour essay exam: FAS student disabilities services did not contact me until yesterday to tell me they needed my documentation from Div School disabilities. Unfortunately I got this e-mail as I was finishing the Machinist Paper of Doom and did not have the time to go to the Div School disabilities and then to FAS disabilities to give them paperwork. I forwarded the Div School the FAS e-mail, but the exam is on Monday morning at 9:15. It's their fault for not contacting me sooner when they said they would contact me, but now I'm screwed. I won't die if I take the exam by hand, but it will be very painful and I shouldn't have to. Maybe I'll bring the wrist brace to look more sad and pathetic and the FAS proctor dude will take pity on me. If it were either my Prof or TF who was administering the exam I would be fine (or if they had gone through HDS to give the exam) but since FAS is doing it, I'm a lot less fine.
Now to studying. I'll exist briefly tomorrow for
brokenwndw's birthday celebration and the Vericon meeting, but I should be studying/papering all day beyond that. Hopefully I'll be productive.1The first of the 2 Friday night services, literally "welcoming Shabbat," where we welcome in Shabbat. It consists almost entirely of singing, when done correctly. It could also entirely consist of quiet mumbling, which is a really sad occurrence. I feel like when it isn't sung, it's a horrible waste of a perfectly good service, and I feel I've been robbed of an essential Shabbat experience. Strangely enough, if I just don't go to kabbalat Shabbat period, I don't mind as much, since I'm not having the non-singingness shoved in my face.It's my favorite service.
2Lecha Dodi is one of the prayers in kabbalat Shabbat, probably the climax of the service. It has verses and a chorus, and pretty much any standard tune in 4/4 time can be used for it. Since it's a long song, people often use 2 tunes, which is a good thing since if you only get one Lecha Dodi a week, you want to maximize the tunes you can use. I also am a fan of varying the tunes and not using the same one every week. This is why Conservative kabbalat Shabbat at Penn had the potential to annoy me, though at least they usually sang everything, which cannot be said of the Orthodox minyan there.
