<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13519727.post-114640913339688445</id><published>2006-05-01T22:05:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-02T14:13:47.870+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Life Catch Up</title><content type='html'>Go ahead. Vote me worst blogger ever. It's ok. I never update, and when I do, I give general updates without pictures. No wonder you're reading &lt;a href="http://trent.blogspot.com"&gt;Pink Is The New Blog&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I actually have lots of say about lots of things here so I'm going to break up the thoughts into some sections. Can you tell I've been writing a lot of papers lately?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;School:&lt;/strong&gt; 12 days to go. 2 papers written, 2 more to write. 5 finals to study for a take. I really can't believe that I'm about to be 1/5 of a Rabbi. Give me an R!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professional Life:&lt;/strong&gt; I was chosen as #22 out of 23 students for our New York High Holy Day pulpit lottery (yes, we actually have one of those.) Sad news for Karen. I'm working on finding a myself a HHD pulpit- any ideas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have gotten myself a teaching job on the Upper West Side teaching 4th grade 2 afternoons a week. I'm hoping to add another afternoon/evening and some tutoring/songleading to help with the income. Anyone know of a good place to get buisness cards printed? I already looked at vistaprints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apparently people think I can play guitar&lt;/strong&gt; since on Saturday night at our Artists4Darfur benefit, I led Havdallah, accompianied a cantorial student and performed. Dar Williams, I hope I made you proud. Play the greed, dar, play the greed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not at the March,&lt;/strong&gt; but we still did something to support Darfur relief. We had a program at school, Artists4Darfur planned by Jill, Owen and Julia- we raised $1000 and had activism-themed performances and watched two films put out by the &lt;a href="http://www.savedarfur.org"&gt;SaveDarfur&lt;/a&gt; Coalition. Despite the small turnout, I was really proud of us--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the last two days,&lt;/strong&gt; I have received seven social invitations- every Shabbat between now and going home is booked. Good to know I have friends. I can't believe everyone isn't coming back to New York. Gulp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And finally...&lt;/strong&gt;some pictures to prove to you that I'm not dead, chas v'shalom. They're both from our pre-Pesach tiyul to the desert. I'm playing guitar and hanging out with my roomies-Rena, Mel and Shayna. &lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; yeah, blogger isn't behaving right now. we'll try pictures again tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More to come on the Israel High Holy Days, wrapping up here, and how you can find me once I stop writing on this &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[gassssssssssssp!]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Sorry to say it, but I'm not sure the blogging will continue after Israel. We'll see. More to come...check back later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13519727-114640913339688445?l=perolmaninthepromisedland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perolmaninthepromisedland.blogspot.com/feeds/114640913339688445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13519727&amp;postID=114640913339688445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13519727/posts/default/114640913339688445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13519727/posts/default/114640913339688445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perolmaninthepromisedland.blogspot.com/2006/05/life-catch-up.html' title='Life Catch Up'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02150940334497431286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12515368412030035334'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>