What a week
Tomorrow morning (LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS AWAY!) I start a new chapter, working once again for the man, or the dinosaur, I guess. The gig is in Emeryville, city of tomorrow - or city of lower rents or bigger box stores or lower sales tax, depending on your perspective.
I'm excited, but the last 10 days or so have been a real whirlwind of tying up loose ends:
- Consolidating my 8 million 401k plans
- Getting soaked in an accounting bloodbath
- recording new G-dcast episodes! OMG-D this is gonna happen!
- cleaning up the apartment
- leveling Anathema to 49
- setting up a wedding registry (!) - now that's WEIRD
- hiring a caterer
- having an engagement party thrown for me by Mission Minyan friends
- planning a few trips
- voting (Ya Voté!)
- Fixing web sites I work on
- Finishing up a Flash game for NutsOnline
- Writing an op ed for the J. Weekly
- Hearing Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz speak about LSD and transgendered people
And so much more. I'm exhausted. Bring on the cute dinos.
posted by sarah @ 10:49 PM
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I am confused about the nature of the G-Dcast. Can you link me to something definitive? Google's only giving me scraps.
I could but then I'd have to kill you. :) It's an animated parsha hashavua cartoon - a cartoon of this week's Torah portion told each week by a new voice.
It's not available on the web until a few months from now...should be an amazing big splash at that point. The work in the can is AMAZING thanks to my killer narrators and animating partner!
I heard R. Steinsaltz / Even Yisrael speak twice this past Tuesday down in Palo Alto.
A very bizarre free-association lecture, to be sure. It seemed that he talked about everything Kabbalah is not, and people's mistaken understanding of it, but not much about it itself.
He lobbed a couple of rhetorical bombs, and I got him to say "no comment" on his involvement with the Sanhedrin in Israel. What did he say up in SF?
I actually wrote down everything he said. Mostly about the nature of the Jewish people and that of change. He spoke about how we do not change quickly, we are obstinate. Expounded upon how that impacts our ability to deep into Jewish life. Encouraged us to read the Bible more often. Made a lot of jokes. Charmed everyone. But we all wished he had spent more time really delving into some sources and interpretation - we felt like we got the barest hint of what was up...yet there was a very receptive, and to a great extent, scholarly crowd that would have appreciated some more meat.
Hey Sarah,
haven't spoken to you since you headed out west. hope you're well.
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