busy weekend

[ursamajor]

just checking in. miscellanea.

1. new york tap water unkosher? therefore, since new york bagels are said to taste/feel unique due to the water supply used to make them, does that mean that new york bagels are ... unkosher? *gasp*

2. my left thumb is sore. i'm still not a tomboy, nor an athlete. but i do own a softball glove now.

3. so i was taking the trash out saturday morning, and one of the bags started leaking all over the kitchen floor. i dumped it in the then-empty trash can, wiped up the floor, and took the trash over to the building's compactor. threw the rest of the trash bags away, then picked up the trash can, which was now full of sloshy, gross, trash liquid, and tipped it up into the compactor to drain. except the can slid out of my hands and down the chute.

first thought: ohfuckohfuckohfuckpleasedon'tletmehavebrokenthetrashcompactor!
second thought: ... "um, honey? ... i owe you a trash can." "huh?" "yeah." *snerk*

yeah, i'm sure he'll be teasing me about that for yoinks to come. :P

4. happy birthday, stranger78! and congratulations on graduating :) congratulations to everybody (and good lord, do i mean everybody!) who graduated this year - theconvictor, geebee_x, quantumsoftshoe, kallmir2000, cavedwellers, belladonna, kudzita and anybody else i'm blanking on. which apparently was a bucketload of you, because not only did i forget to mention kudzita and cantspell, i forgot to mention noghri. and i even WENT to his graduation last weekend. which i haven't gotten around to writing a proper posted entry about, despite having now met both his aunts and his sister, and the whole day coming off rather well ...

Comments

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

thanks *g*

[ursamajor]

BAH! *grovels at the feet of the kudzulicious one and scurries off to fix*

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, no worries, I know I was there in spirit anyway *g*

[fractalspackle.livejournal.com]

ah, another tarheel. cool.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

yup, finished up undergrad in may, then a year of post-bac before off to grad school (classics.) you're a grad, yes? what department?

[fractalspackle.livejournal.com]

Yup, a grad. I'm with that wild and crazy outfit that was kicked out of Saunders last year: Religious Studies. Are you staying here for grad work?

My undergrad degree is from a dept. of religion and classics, so I knew plenty of classisists from back then. A cool field.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

Oh man, major sympathies - I remember how much it sucked when we were exiled to Howell for ages while Murphy went through its own renovations. At least you're not Geography and still have a place on campus, though...

I'd be staying for grad work if I could, but that's discouraged, so what I might do is get my MA somewhere else and see if I can't come back for the PhD.

And yeah, I find it a cool field too. *g*

[noghri.livejournal.com]

Note that she forgot her own boyfriend :)

[ursamajor]

did not! i just, um, haven't gotten around to writing *last* weekend up in a public post. which i thought i had publicized. but i hadn't.

*sheepishly adds to the list*

mememe!

[cantspell.livejournal.com]

I'm graduating in 11 days!

Re: mememe!

[ursamajor]

that you are! congratulations, jillie :)

[kazulrw.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! that's my old neighborhood in brooklyn, with the hardware store. I used to see that guy in the picture three or four times a week. thank goodness I got out of there.

[fractalspackle.livejournal.com]

I would have intentionally thrown away the trashcan. But then again, maybe you did too, and this is just your cover story. ;)

[ursamajor]

*snerk* that's what steve thinks, too. ;)

admittedly, it did have gross-smelling crap on the bottom of it, and on my way out the door to the compactor, i tossed off a remark about having to hose the trashcan down at some point later that day. little did i know his trashcan SO hated the idea of a bath that it would commit suicide instead!

i could've sworn there was a relevant bath or shower poem by shel silverstein or maybe jack prelutsky that i could reference and/or filk. sadly, not having much luck finding it online. it wasn't sarah cynthia sylvia stout ... hrm.

[singularity.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I'd think microscopes would be a great evil to those types of people since you'll find all sorts of things in it. As was alluded to in the article, what is violating the law and what doesn't? What about the air? There are all sorts of insects and such in the air....does one stop breathing? Or just wear masks all the time? Me thinks the world was easier for them when things like microscopes didn't exist ;)

So if you include all animals, and many of those creatures are classified as animals if I remember correctly....I guess that really only leaves things like distilled water to drink heh.

[ursamajor]

*nods* yeah, it depends on how strictly you want to interpret the edicts. but as noghri and mrieser explained to me, it really comes down to history and tradition. even just the differences between the two "main" traditions (sephardic vs. ashkenazic) ... and how certain words in the torah have multiple meanings, so even though the torah is laid out in an extremely specific manner so that the lettering and pagination is identical to exactly how it was written thousands of years ago, we still don't know for sure exactly what was meant by "don't boil a kid in mother's milk," for example. were they referring specifically to goats? should this be applied across all meats? does this in fact have nothing to do with diet and is it just saying don't kill your child? or don't kill any animals at all? is it okay to simmer meat in milk as long as it's not boiling?

please to note i am not jewish and am probably bollocksing up the issues massively. ask your neighborhood jew for clarification ;)