Today, we were asking for and giving advice, based loosely on this game. Maybe you had to be there, but it was a riot. What follows is mostly what was given as bad or “ugly” advice, but sometimes it was meant to be good, as well. My students also seemed to have […]
They’re going to change my schedule in the third week of January, and probably give me all new classes. Even though I haven’t managed to learn all the names of my students this term, it disappoints me that I might not get to see them again. Not all of them are good, of […]
It’s not really, of course, because the word “extravaganza” implies fun. But anyway, I decided I’m going to graduate school. Or at least applying to graduate school–the other part of the decision isn’t up to me. Yeah, yeah, I know all about this you-can-get-accepted-anywhere-if-you-believe-in-yourself. Maybe at the National Internet University.
There was […]
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Saturday we took the train down to Lyon to see the city and the fête des lumières, which has nothing to do with Chanukah. The city surpassed its reputation as boring industrial center–we enjoyed the Roman ruins and the basilica on the hill, and we most especially enjoyed our lunch.
Lyon is sometimes called the […]
Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu l’hadlik neir shel Chanukah.
Some people don’t have enough lamp oil, others don’t have a chanukiyah at all. We get by.
(The title is just something I have adopted, after hearing a student say it. He wanted to say “it’s no big deal,” and so he translated the French “c’est pas grave” literally. I love it.)
So Joe and I spent a lovely weekend in Alsace, being wined and dined and chauffeured all around. […]