This morning, as I was putting my breakfast dishes on the appropriate conveyor belt, I accidentally dropped my fork in the garbage. Luckily, it fell on a reasonably clean plastic baggie. Unluckily, someone saw it happen. Luckily, she joked with me about it, though she did keep saying, "לא נאים" (that's not pleasant). Though, she conceded, it's also "לא נורא" (not terrible). Did I know, she asked, that there's a song in Israel that goes, "לא נאים--לא נורא"? Thank you, Abba, I do know that! In fact, I was able to respond, "Oh, that's actually a song? I thought it was an advertisement!" The lady was duly impressed, and I was happy because I got to think about my Abba. Thanks, Abbs! Question for the group: does anyone know where I can watch said advertisement? I tried looking it up on the interweb, but it pre-dates YouTube.
This afternoon, we finally wandered into the library. Oh, to be surrounded by books once more! They have a very impressive Hebrew collection for such a small community, and they even have 2 or 3 rows of English books. Before we can borrow books, we need to leave a 100NIS deposit at the main office. But also before I personally borrow books, I need to finish reading the Hebrew translation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. I understand about 80% of the words, and I think I'm understanding the story fully. For my next Hebrew book, though, I'd like to pick something I've not only read before, but know practically by heart. Heck, it's been well over my usual six months since I read To Kill a Mockingbird: time to get cracking! What's really slowing up my Thousand Suns reading is that I'm listening to The Lies of Lock Lamora as I sew myself a new (and rather needed) Shabbos skirt.
Baruch Hashem, it's been raining steadily since about an hour before sunset. Not much to say about that, but it warrants mentioning. Thank G-d.
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