yehiyeh tov

mood: optimistic
music: franz ferdinand -- you're the reason i'm leaving
CPCetc: i've never seen a clearer blue

It's 63F outside. The sun is shining. The sky is the clearest, brightest blue I've ever seen and full of lazy white-grey clouds. There's a bit of a breeze. It's beautiful down here. Sorry to hear that it's freezing in Chicago.

Will called to wish me a happy new year...three days early. But it was greatly appreciated. I got out my Hebrew book and started looking through it, rememorising the things I'm supposed to do this weekend. I know I won't be having a traditional meal but I think I can conn Da into cooking something, hopefully with carrots, and I can grab some Pom from Jewel and that'll be halfway there. I will have Tapuchim and D'vash because it's ridiculously delicious and I love it soooooo much. Best thing about the holiday. Other than, you know, all of the spiritual cleansing and whatnot. *cough*

I'll have to head over to Hidden Creek on Sunday for Tashlich but I need to find the prayer first. I wanted to do that last year but I didn't get a chance too. I think I stopped by Petty Creek and said a few prayers but I can't quite remember. That was during Iris. I've tried to forget a lot of that period. I'll be fasting on the second. Hope for Chelsea is all I can say. So eat an early dinner and wait it out. I love how the saddest day of the year is the only one that involves fasting and likely is the saddest day because you're not allowed to eat. Crazy, crazy Jews.

Apparently, today is the day of religion. Huzzah!

Things are...hm. Things are about as they were. I had a chat with Paige about everything and she was wonderful and gave me the slap in the face that I really needed. Hopefully I'll be able to do what she's suggesting. Hopefully. I'm not my primary concern right now, though, so I need to take care of some other things first. Bigger, scarier things. Oy.

Theoretically, I should be reading my Shop assignment. As much as I love Jeff and Jeff, I really will be giddy to have this bit of my education free. It's very, very tiring.

Long afternoon for me today. Got class from half-twelve to two, lab work from two to four and Leadership Council from five to half-six. A friend of mine wants me to stop by his Advocacy table but I have no idea where that is. Then it's the rest of that chapter in Trenholm, some bits in Mythology and finishing up standard deviations. Immensely interesting, I know. Why do I type these things? Because I have nothing interesting in my life. Or, at least, nothing interesting I can share.

I'm trying to be optimistic about things. I'm trying really, really hard and I'm reminding myself that, yes, people die and bad things happen but life goes on. But the world moves. And, somehow, it makes sense sometimes. A very smart person told me that and I need to remember it no matter what. Things are meant to change. People are meant to change, with or without you. And sometimes you're lucky and they change the way you want them to or they change back to what you'd hoped for. And sometimes you're not. Sometimes you have to make the change yourself. Flexibility is important. Hope is important. Sometimes it's the only thing you've got.