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Mother's Day and Other Things
May. 14th, 2006 07:20 pmFor Mother's Day, or perhaps for the one Sunday I'm around RI in May which happened to be on Mother's Day, I gave a lecture at Agudas Achim on the history of Zionism [the abbreviated version] and life in Israel. Of course, the part about history lasted approximately 25 minutes, since my notes weren't so extensive and it had been years since I've studied this material. [I find myself wondering if I'll be this way in another five years with the stuff I've learned at Penn...] And everyone was more interested in Israel anyways.
I got finagled into making lasagne for dinner for everyone. It's mostly gone now. It was pretty good. I need to stop being good at cooking so someone else can cook instead...
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So last night I got an E-mail from Ben about thesisy stuff, which means he still is in contact, though unfortunately he only writes e-mails on the weekends in the summer. Gah. But at least he can be my advisor for the anthro thesis for next year! Yay! I wrote him back about the following dilemma:
( from the e-mail I wrote, since I'm lazy... )
*The link was not in the original e-mail. I added it for y'all.[Or would that be "all y'all"?]
**I wasn't going to spell it out in the e-mail, but "putting my entire life on stand-still," in this case, refers to the possibility of ever getting married. I want to make aliyah. I want to marry a guy who wants to make aliyah. Such a guy, if he's serious about the idea, would either already be in Israel or probably would be planning to go there in the near future. I doubt a guy would find something to do in America for 6 years while I finish my PhD. Hence me asking the question about transferring/dropping out. I'll be 28 when I finish my PhD! And I don't even know if an American PhD in Anthropology is respected in Israel.
Ok, fine, I'll grant that that's not a big issue this second, since it's not like I'm dating anyone right now. But I'm just afraid that if I wait until I'm 28 to even start dating, I'll be screwed, and since in Judaism everyone gets married young [yes, that's a generalization], there won't be any guys out there. And I'd like to get married before then if I find someone. Which i won't if I'm stuck in America.
So I guess the question would be "where is a good graduate program that is located near a vibrant Jewish community full of young singles looking to make aliyah within the next decade?" That's not a question Ben could answer.
Or alternatively "who do I have to bribe with deli-roll and biscotti to get into grad school in Israel?" I assume the deli-roll and biscotti should work. I can send them in with my thesis.
Or maybe I can just marry a rich guy who has his own private plane and can afford to own two houses- 1 in America and 1 in Israel. And we could fly back and forth between the 2 countries, so if one of us was working in America and the other was working in Israel, we could still live together and see eachother and not be like those married couples who have to spend years apart. But I doubt such a man exists.
I got finagled into making lasagne for dinner for everyone. It's mostly gone now. It was pretty good. I need to stop being good at cooking so someone else can cook instead...
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So last night I got an E-mail from Ben about thesisy stuff, which means he still is in contact, though unfortunately he only writes e-mails on the weekends in the summer. Gah. But at least he can be my advisor for the anthro thesis for next year! Yay! I wrote him back about the following dilemma:
( from the e-mail I wrote, since I'm lazy... )
*The link was not in the original e-mail. I added it for y'all.[Or would that be "all y'all"?]
**I wasn't going to spell it out in the e-mail, but "putting my entire life on stand-still," in this case, refers to the possibility of ever getting married. I want to make aliyah. I want to marry a guy who wants to make aliyah. Such a guy, if he's serious about the idea, would either already be in Israel or probably would be planning to go there in the near future. I doubt a guy would find something to do in America for 6 years while I finish my PhD. Hence me asking the question about transferring/dropping out. I'll be 28 when I finish my PhD! And I don't even know if an American PhD in Anthropology is respected in Israel.
Ok, fine, I'll grant that that's not a big issue this second, since it's not like I'm dating anyone right now. But I'm just afraid that if I wait until I'm 28 to even start dating, I'll be screwed, and since in Judaism everyone gets married young [yes, that's a generalization], there won't be any guys out there. And I'd like to get married before then if I find someone. Which i won't if I'm stuck in America.
So I guess the question would be "where is a good graduate program that is located near a vibrant Jewish community full of young singles looking to make aliyah within the next decade?" That's not a question Ben could answer.
Or alternatively "who do I have to bribe with deli-roll and biscotti to get into grad school in Israel?" I assume the deli-roll and biscotti should work. I can send them in with my thesis.
Or maybe I can just marry a rich guy who has his own private plane and can afford to own two houses- 1 in America and 1 in Israel. And we could fly back and forth between the 2 countries, so if one of us was working in America and the other was working in Israel, we could still live together and see eachother and not be like those married couples who have to spend years apart. But I doubt such a man exists.
