8/7-8/13: The Week in Review
Monday-
Was 3 hours late to work due to subway shananighans. On the bright side I met some cool Israelis who want to have drinks at some point. Had dinner on the UES with a freshman from New School at some meditteranean place. Boring.
Tuesday-
Met some people from Tulane and UCLA in midtown after work and showed them around the giant Toys R Us with the life size T-rex. It was fun but it made me late for my mock interview back at Columbia. Didn't matter, even showing up late I did fine.
Wednesday-
Met up with a friend from the nursing school for an open bar in the East Village. It's good to be on club promoters' lists...had some bad red wine and a pretty good gin & tonic then went to AISH to have dinner and watch Relentless. The movie was standard Israeli propaganda (which is fine) but what got me was the audience response. Some went so far as to say that they were big Kahane fans. Nearly all wanted the Palestinians expelled. It was ridiculous. As one of the only left wing people in the room I felt a duty to speak out but the rabbi wouldn't call on me. Probably because I was wearing a save the children tie with people of all different nationalities shaking hands on it (I certainly didn't look the part of a right wing hawk). I finally just interrupted and explained that genocide is not an acceptable solution and that to hear Jews talk this way made me sick. I then spent an hour debating with idiots who claimed to have gone to yeshiva at flatbush but somehow were completely unfamiliar with shulchan oruch, the criteria for an animal to be kosher, the fact that there are two different versions of creation in genesis, or the history of WWII. One also claimed to speak hebrew and this was swiftly proven not to be the case. Ugh. I hate it when ignorant people who think everything is blcak and white refuse to see the light of reason. I don't know why I waste my breath sometimes. I kvetched to a friend in CA all the way home and I'm sure I won't be able to step foot in there again for at least 2 months. My new roomate moved in at 2AM waking me up. Sooo not appreciated ><
Thursday-
Went to a book signing at the Galapagos Art Space with my boss after work and got a pastrami knish at a little restaurant by Bedford. The book was on how not to get busted with drugs or something but it was a comedy. Not terribly enthralling for me. After that I went for drinks and dessert at Prohibition with a banker from Goldman and then hung out on a rooftop most of the night. Took a cab home at 4AM. Need sleep.
Friday-
Was stuck in the NY Public Library's Business Branch most of the afternoon researching and copying microfilm. Not exciting. Grabbed some interview attire at Men's Wearhouse on the way back to the office. Had to work late in the office when I got back so my shabbos plans went down the drain. Too tired for services after. They were probably over by 8 when I got home anyway. Ended up doing laundry and then going out to a friend's house at 12:30AM. Got home at noon Saturday. Need to work on this whole sleeping thing.
Saturday-
Did the dishes (they had been in the sink for nearly a week). Went shopping at Century 21 with a friend from Queens and then walked up to Chelsea to check out a gallery and eat some pizza. Soo tired. Gotta go to services now for Tisha B'Av with a lawschool buddy.
