Well, to those of you who like when I write serious, chew on this one for a few minutes...
Post #2 today...
So I'm in my department director's office which doubles as our department lunchroom, courtesy of his big conference room table. Most days, several members of the department eat lunch together which always blows me away. In the States, I would usually eat lunch alone at...
Wow, a good number of posts this week, huh? Including last night's surprise entry. If you saw it, hopefully you enjoyed it. I had fun. Stay tuned-let's hope we have some video within days. So last week, I said l'hitraot to...
Well, it's the Friday night before the week my first group arrives from the States. Exciting times. I'm spending the weekend taking it easy and catching up on my life, doing all the things I either do in the next 24 hours or...
People are seriously obsessed with English in this country. Need I link to the t-shirts again? In the middle of speaking in Hebrew, someone will just - without warning - say one phrase or part of a sentence in English. I cannot...
We've aaaaaaaaall seen it. The menus with the typos. The weird-ass t-shirts. For the love of G-d, I think there's a typo in my company's freaking NAME! (As explained in the link, I'm not going to write it out here but shouldn't there be an...
And now…a look at life in Israel.(2 minutes before this exchange, a co-worker I barely know invited me to his Seder. Good Lord, Israelis are the most hospitable people in the universe.) Benji: Why are Israelis so nice? You can’t go to miluim (army reserves), we...
Here's a story passed on from a friend of mine which made me laugh (we'll call her "Melissa"...
Here's one that's been sitting in my proverbial hopper for months, just waiting to be written (ech omrim "proverbial hopper"?) It's a long one...