I just got out of a 3-day Yom Tov (holiday). It didn't seem too long at any point, and it was only in the last 4 hours where I was like "I can't wait for it to end." And that was solved very easily by taking a 3-hour nap and then reading some
Confessions.
Shabbat consisted of Friday night dinner at home, Saturday morning services at Tremont Street (where I led Mussaf), hanging out in the park for a bit and then heading over to campus to rehearse the music for the HRSFA seder.
Of course, we have a story in which I was an idiot.
There was a giant soup pot, and 2 boxes of kosher for passover chicken soup mix, which I needed to bring over for the seder. And so I brought them over. They were very heavy, but I had the soup pot in 2 plastic bags at one point and everything else inside of it, and I shifted the weight from arm to arm as necessary, and walked quickly, thinking I was going to be horribly late to rehearsal.
About 3/4 of the way there, I saw a man with a baby cart, and thought "I wish I had a baby cart, then I could rest the soup pot on top...wait a second, I have a granny cart. D'oh!" All along I could have used the granny cart to haul this abominable pot to campus. But no, I had to do it the hard way. (Then again, it's not like
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adlight thought of it, either, though she was the one who suggested the grocery bags.)
Eventually I made it to campus, and I was pretty much on time, certainly earlier than everyone else who wasn't MB (who was running the whole thing and arranged the music and whatnot). So we went in to Eliot once KO came to let us in, and we sang and sang and at one point I had to run out and get a drink of water because I could feel my vocal chords protest. By the end I felt better about most of my parts, though still a bit shaky, and very regretful of the fact that I am so completely out of practice with music, and music that should have been easy for me to learn ended up being quite difficult. But maybe this is going to give me incentive to relearn how to sing correctly and read music quickly.
The seder itself was quite nice, and I didn't screw up my part too badly. And we did most parts of the seder, and I knew I had a more traditional seder for the second night, so I got over whatever halachic objections I might have had to skipping things. And this is one of those compromising on Jew-things so I could exist in a HRSFAn world, but not compromising so much as to go against my beliefs. This is the normal state of things. The only difference is that it's actually easier to explain to non-Jews or completely secular Jews who never were raised with Judaism that I can't do x because of my religion, whereas people with Jewish knowledge are more likely to say "well I do x, so you should, be able to as well."
Speaking of Judaism and HRSFA, in a wonderful set of events, I had volunteered to lead Mussaf for Sunday, which would have required me being at shul until the end of services, which would be somewhere between 12 and 12:30, but then they didn't have enough people volunteering to do things, and egalitarian services were cancelled (and people could still go to traditional if they wanted to be at services). This meant I could go to D&D on time on Sunday, since it started at 12. I felt like a bad person for being happy about services not happening, but D&D is D&D. According to some people I am the world's biggest nerd for working D&D around chag, but I'm not the one doing an internet Star Trek RPG.
Anyways, I managed to have things work by printing out my spells and items ahead of time, and using dice to keep track of HP. We ended up having a really short campaign because there was Noteables rehearsal at 2 instead of at 3, which ate up 2 people, one being hKC, and since hKC is our DM, that meant that we ended before 2. So it was good that I could come on time, since it was so short anyways.
Then I went home (oh, and on the way I totally thought I was going to be late so I speed-walked and ended up getting there 5 minutes early), walking leisurely, and still getting back before 3:30. So I had an afternoon in which to nap and read, though the napping failed miserably because I guess I wasn't tired enough.
Then we had a traditional seder, where we did everything that I had skipped last night, though the singing was nowhere near as pretty. Between the 2 seders I had enough to fulfill all my Passover wants, except for the fact that in neither did we sing the Penn Chad Gadya. I am determined to have it sung before the end of the holiday, considering that I didn't get to hear it on Simchat Torah and thus it has been a year since I have heard it.
This morning I was at services on time, since I thought I was leading psukei, only I wasn't leading psukei. But I was still leading mussaf. Sadly, I managed to mess up the chag nuisach, even though I thought I knew it. I guess knowing it in my head and having it be what I sing are two different things, though usually the two are interchangeable.
Then there was a barbeque with lots of meat. (Yay for being able to transfer flame and thus cook!) I actually didn't have that much meat, though I did have one kabob and also grilled onions and soup (with 4 matzah balls!)
And then I was home, and I read, finished The Amber Spyglass, napped, and then read again. And then chag ended, and I only had 33 e-mails between all my accounts, which is surprisingly little for 3 days. Of course, one was from my comparative religions TF, who was like "if you're writing the long paper as opposed to the exam, please tell me by today, even if you've told the prof already." I had told the prof already. And this was an e-mail sent yesterday. So I had to write back and say "sorry I didn't e-mail until now, but this is the first time I've been able to use the internet in the past 73 hours." I also asked for a 2 day extension because of the craziness of Passover and the fact that I lost 2 days of work (since Shabbat is always a day in which I can't work). I'm assuming he will say no, but hoping he will say yes. I also have a ton of stuff for Ritual, Gender, and Space class due Thursday, though this is my own fault for not doing the response papers when I should have (though I did do the readings mostly and thus had enough to say in class).
And now I also have my papers all due in a couple of weeks. One is due May 2nd, one May 9th, and one May 14th. The one due the 9th is the longest (20 pages), the one due the 2nd is my 5-8 page paper on D&D, and the one due the 14th is my miqvah paper of awesome, though I need to be prepared to do a 5 minute presentation on it on May 1st, and thus have to have at least started it by May 1st. Which is in a week and a half. And this weekend is also Passover, and thus Sunday will have been lost as a work day.
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