On a path a Michelle Jones type situation

Posts from June 2009

A Lesson I’m Trying to Learn

A couple weeks ago my rabbi told me he was going to start fining me if I didn’t stop making self-deprecating remarks about myself. While I’m not sure he can actually make me pay up (good luck with that Reb) he does have a good point. I know that I often make at least self-deprecating [...]


Posted
7 June 2009 @ 8am

Tagged
Judaism

I Want This On My Wall (my real wall not Facebook wall)

I found this poem in the siddur yesterday and was like “Yes!” to pretty much every line. I’d love to have this done in some sweet calligraphy, letterpress or something cool like that, framed and hung in the office.
It’s an adaptation of a piece called “I am a Jew” by Edmund Fleg.
I Am a [...]


Posted
7 June 2009 @ 8am

Tagged
Judaism

I Want This On My Wall (my real wall not Facebook wall)

I found this poem in the siddur yesterday and was like “Yes!” to pretty much every line. I’d love to have this done in some sweet calligraphy, letterpress or something cool like that, framed and hung in the office.
It’s an adaptation of a piece called “I am a Jew” by Edmund Fleg.
I Am a [...]


Posted
5 June 2009 @ 8am

Tagged
personal

Things I’m Surprised to Hear Michelle Say for $800 Alex

First, why has no one ever purchased the “Suck it Trebek” t-shirt for me? That fact wounds me deeply. Moving on.
Several weeks ago, in the thick of my….thing….I decided that I had to get a job. Financial worries, not feeling intellectual stimulated, being isolated because I work alone all day and not feeling that [...]


Posted
5 June 2009 @ 8am

Tagged
personal

Things I’m Surprised to Hear Michelle Say for $800 Alex

First, why has no one ever purchased the “Suck it Trebek” t-shirt for me? That fact wounds me deeply. Moving on.
Several weeks ago, in the thick of my….thing….I decided that I had to get a job. Financial worries, not feeling intellectual stimulated, being isolated because I work alone all day and not feeling that [...]


Posted
2 June 2009 @ 11am

Tagged
Judaism

Shehecheyanu Moments

One of my favorite blessings is the shehecheyanu. It’s a short little thing that thanks God (if God is your thing) for bringing you to a new experience. If God is not your thing I think you can still appreciate the shehecheyanu because it’s just taking a moment out and acknowledging that something new and [...]