(14 Adar II 5765)

This will be the last entry on Alikras62. Ever.

I will be permanently moving to a new site!! How exciting...and sad simutlaneously. I felt that it was time for a change. So, please continue reading my entries at www.xanga.com/God_uses_AIM. I will resubscribe to each and every person on my list. Sorry if this causes y'all any inconvenience, but please move with me. Thanks!!

There will be a similar entry and welcome message on my new site. Hope you're having a great break.

HAPPY PURIM!

~*Blessed Be and Shalomz.*~

Currently Reading La Parure. (Lernmaterialien) By Guy de Maupassant see related

                                                                        (10 Adar II 5765)

Wow...a whole week. There's lots to get through in a little entry today.

First of all, I love the History Channel. They had Breaking the Bible Code Part II on last night, and it's just fascinating what it's predicted...almost all of the major political events and natural disasters in the post-modern world. Then again, there are the skeptics ((aren't there always?)) who say that every single prediction is just a coincidence. So...just some food for thought. I don't think we'll ever know if that stuff is real or not.

Can I get a "Y?" Y! Can I get an "E?" E! Can I get an "S?" S!

The Paradise Lost trial is finally over. I am so happy, relieved, revived, refreshed...and...uhhh...happy ((I was trying to pull a Guy de Maupassant with those adjectives.)).  Anyway, to be straightforward and honest: a whole lot of stress just disappeared. Hopefully now everyone will realize that it's just one English project out of our lives. Let's all move on now.

Anywho, the weekend was good. Somehow I ended up spending eight hours with Sean, Tim, and Nicole on Friday. It would take me a bazillion pages to elaborate on what we did and/or failed to do. So, I'll briefly jam it into one really long run-on sentence ((not necessarily all-inclusive or in chronological order)). We went to Sean's, forded the "ditch of doom" to get chocolate chip cookies at Giant, waited for stubborn chicken-fried-chicken at Applebee's, went to the Hershey Outlets for two seconds before deciding it was boring, sat in the aisle at the movie theatre for The Ring Two, went to my house for five seconds, and went to Tim's house for a stirring rendition of the story of how Tim and Sean almost died last summer. Did you get all that? Yeah, me neither.

Saturday, I got vintage glasses at Checkered Past. So, if you see me wearing glasses, yes they are fake. I saw part of the high school guard competition ((CD won, yay!)) and part of Anne Frank at Whitaker.

Sunday I went to the Purim carnival at the JCC. ((Purim is a Jewish holiday that no one really knows exists.)) Our booth was a little press-on tattooing and face-painting adventure for little kids. It was cute. Most of the time.

My computer is sooooo screwy. We had to downgrade our AOL to get it to work. <<insert confused smiley face here>> My smilies don't work either, and I can't get on any websites except xanga.

Okay...well, I wanted to talk about this Holocaust survivor I heard speak on Thursday ((during CASA)), but I don't really have enough energy right now, so maybe later. Have a great week...I'll try to update more often if I can. Happy Spring!

~*Blessed Be and Shalomz.*~

Currently Playing Seussical: The Musical By Original Broadway Cast, Eric Idle, Lynn Ahrens see related

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                                                                                        (3 Adar II 5765)

Well, Wicked is sold out on Broadway until June. I guess that means I won't be going to see it over spring break.

As it turns out, Mr. Heckman is not getting fired. Sorry if I misled anyone. It was actually just a rumor and a dream, as many things actually are. *shrugs* I guess you can be absent for five weeks, pretend you're a drill sargeant, and still hold a teaching position.

Anyway, this weekend was one of the best I've had in awhile. I finally found a show that needs some one my age and type. So, I auditioned for Henry V on Friday and went to the callback on Sunday. It was soooo much fun, and everyone was really welcoming. If I got cast, I would be the French princess, "Katharine" and "Boy," who's just some kid who deserts these vagabond-ish crazies. Yay for ensemble casting. First time doing professional Shakespeare...wouldn't that be an adventure?  One of the guys auditioning asked me what Shakespeare I'd done...and I said...."none."  ((Romeo and Juliet does NOT count, by the way.))

I went to see East High's musical, Seussical. Wow. And, I mean wow. I'm not very easily impressed by anything, in general, but it was quite good. Exhibit A: I even went out and bought the soundtrack. Nicole was awesome as the mayor's wife!! Then, we had another bangin' CASA sleepover, after we invaded Friendly's at about 11:00 at night.

Torah study Saturday morning...I got to see the newly renovated sanctuary and it is bangin'. ((Bangin'...is the word of the day, I guess.)) It's just really, really pretty.

Today we had off, but it hardly felt like it. I had to meet with my Paradise Lost group at 10 this morning. We worked on the project for about four hours ((minus a trip to Karn's in Amber's convertible...with the top down...yes it was cold)), and I still have a ton of stuff to do with it. Hmmmmm.

Well, that's it! It's sunny out and I'm actually pretty happy. You've got to enjoy it while it lasts.

P.S. My background isn't showing up...does anyone know why that might have happened? Thanks.

~*Blessed Be and Shalomz.*~

Currently Playing Hopes & Fears By Keane see related

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                                                                                              (28 Adar I 5765)

OH MY GOSH....MR. HECKMAN ((completely insane dictator-like driver's ed. teacher)) IS GETTING FIRED? *sigh of relief for future generations*

Okay, so we're doing this project for English class.  ((CD 11 Honors kids, you know what I mean.)) It's a trial, placing G-d against the satan, a la Paradise Lost. In Paradise Lost, satan decides to rebel because he feels that G-d is an unfair tyrant that set him up to go to hell. Satan thinks heaven is a dictatorship, an illegitimate government. Yes, satan is the protagonist.  I have been assigned to defend satan.

Now, I know that it's only a school project, and I don't believe in satan anyway but....ehhhh.  I feel really uncomfortable about the whole thing. I'm kind of offended by the way Paradise Lost sets up G-d.  Because, in my mind, G-d is NOT some old dude with a white beard chilling in the sky, being completely seperate from us, getting angry and jealous. Sorry, that's just not my style. And, it pisses me off that I have to pretend G-d is that way and be the devil's lawyer. Maybe I'm being a little oversensitive ((I have been guilty of that before, especially being a liberal!!)), but I can't help it that it bothers me. I don't want to ...opt out of it and do a paper, though. So, I guess I'll just do like a Taoist and go with the flow.

Car stories:

1) We were coming out of CASA today, and there was this huge truck trying to parallel park.  I guess the driver didn't have very good depth perception. He backed up almost directly into a parking meter.  The side of his truck was scraping against it. And, I thought for a minute, it was just going to break off and topple right over onto the sidewalk.

2) My entire day yesterday. After I spent 10 minutes scraping the ice off of my car ((from the surprise mini snow storm)), I started to drive to CASA. Then, my windshield fogged up to the point where I couldn't see anything, so I pulled over.  Once I got the defrost working, I continued on my journey. The next part was just like a movie....I was on Front Street when this van ((coming in the opposite direction)) splashes slush ALL OVER my windshield, and I can't see a damn thing. So, after being scared out of my mind for a few minutes, the wipers get it off, but it's fogged up AGAIN!

Okay, well, that's it! I miss y'all in xangaland. When I saw that my latest entry was in February, I could hardly believe it. Well, if you need to find me, you know where to look. ((And, yes, I do mean local school musicals.))

~*Blessed Be and Shalomz.*~

Currently Reading Open Secrets : The Letters of Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael By Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro see related

                                                                                       (19 Adar I 5765)

Well, dude. It's been an awfully long time since I've updated. To be honest, I've gotten a little sick of it. Or, maybe it's just because I don't really have too much to say.

I've been home since about 11:45 today...that's exciting. And, I guess the rest of y'all are being freed at 1:00...that's....err...exciting. Ironically, it's not even actually snowing that much. *shrugs* But, I'm definitely not complaining.

So ((this is like a bad conversation, hunh?))...what'd you guys think of the Oscars last night? I didn't really watch it. Awards shows really aren't my favorite things. They take about a bajillion hours and award things I've never even heard of first. They want to save the most prominent awards ((and the viewing audience)) for last, I guess. Auggh...who cares?! Grrrrrr....I've got about zippo to say.

I had a rocking CASA party Friday. That's really it. *shrugs again* This entry reminds me of trying to have a deep conversation with some one and pulling things out of your ass because you're so flustered you can't think of anything. But, despite the lack of commentary, life's been not-so-bad.

~*Blessed Be and Shalomz.*~