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What is YOUR day job? What should my day job be?

Thursday, 30 June 2005 9:18 P GMT-06
Yes, you're right.  She wasn't fired so I could be hired, but the whole situation made me feel wierd.  Today when I met with my supervisor to discuss being a perm hire, that wasn't what we talked about.Instead we had a good talk about job versus ca
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Fire! Fire! Firefirefire! and stuff

Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:49 A GMT-06
Last night I capped off a bizarre and uncomfortable day with a trip to see the Chicago Fire play soccer at Soldier Field.  It was the unofficial summer outing of my workplace two jobs ago.  I still get invited to the unofficial events, so it was ni
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The Prophet

Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:50 P GMT-06
I forgot how much I love The Prophet by Khalil Gabrin.  Here are a couple chapters that are important to me today.And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship." Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love a
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Welcome Back Class of 95!!!!! It's Reunion Time!!!!! Terre Haute South Vigo

Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:10 A GMT-06
Info for Terre Haute South Vigo, Class of 1995, Ten Year Reunion.  I noticed a few Google searches landed people here, so thought I'd make the info accesible.It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since we've graduated!  We are very excited t
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Poopy day, nice night.

Tuesday, 28 June 2005 9:21 P GMT-06
I had a poopy morning at work.  I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and didn't want to go.  I don't think I was having nightmares today, but it is possible I was.  Just didn't want to go.  It was a well deserved warning and one I might heed ne
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Wear your kippah to work day.

Monday, 27 June 2005 6:05 P GMT-06
I was having a synchronicity filled day today.  On the train this morning, I was worrying about Ronnie.  He's in Israel and even though he said he would be safe, I can't help but worry.  While I was thinking about his safety, I looked at the graff
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People will stand in the kitchen.

Sunday, 26 June 2005 9:26 A GMT-06
It doesn't matter that my living room and kitchen are the same space, at last nights party--everyone hung out in the kitchen.  Or close to the kitchen on the other side of the counter.  And by labeling the part as from 6PM to 9PM, I did (indeed) st
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Housewarming preparations

Saturday, 25 June 2005 12:34 P GMT-06
Dominick's is less than three blocks from my condo.  So it seemed like a brilliant idea to walk over there this morning to get six bottles of wine, a few pounds of cheese, crackers, some fruit, bread, and some paper towels.  Oh for added awkwardnes
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There was this song about the holocaust...

Friday, 24 June 2005 9:20 P GMT-06
In grade school our choir teacher had us sing a haunting song about the holocaust."Dance with me, dance with meput your hand in mine.Dance with me, dance with me,let our hearts entwine.Dance.  Dance.  Come dance along with meLet your heart tak
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Special Kiddush in Isreal

Friday, 24 June 2005 6:44 P GMT-06
I'm about to grab my neighbor and head to temple, but first I was checking our Jewlicious.  I found out that tonight in Jerusalem there is a special kiddush for women who haven't been on the receiving end of "Mazel Tov" enough.Find more he
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Jew against Jew

Friday, 24 June 2005 9:36 A GMT-06
Right now I’m reading the book Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto by Bernard Goldstein.  He was a comrade in the Bund who recounted the years in the Ghetto during World War II.  I’m about halfway through and what
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I am no longer husband hunting.

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 8:54 P GMT-06
As much as I want "dates' and to be "dating" a nice jewish man, I have to take those expectations off the table.  I am NOT going to meet my husband through an online ad.  I am just going to keep meeting men who I would have never met
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I am no longer husband hunting.

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 8:54 P GMT-06
As much as I want "dates' and to be "dating" a nice jewish man, I have to take those expectations off the table.  I am NOT going to meet my husband through an online ad.  I am just going to keep meeting men who I would have never met
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Leah Jones

smart one

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 2:01 P GMT-06
Way to go Career Girl.  You were put in charge of ordering lunch for your group, which you handled brilliantly.  Found the appropriate online form, the right credit card, faxed it in early, called to confirm.  But you forgot one little IMPORTANT F
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Roll Call--where my readers at?

Tuesday, 21 June 2005 9:36 P GMT-06
I've had a significant increase in readership this month.  I don't know if Blog-City is calculating hits differently or if I actually have more people reading my blog.  So I thought I would do my periodic Roll Call.Who's reading?  Please leave a c
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I will officially not worry

Monday, 20 June 2005 8:03 P GMT-06
A good friend is off to Israel in a couple days.  As bad as I want to go, I realized today that I am worried about his safety while he is there.  What with the vote in Lebanon, the planning for pulling out of the Gaza strip, Condie Rice rolling aro
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Predicting Alzheimer’s

Monday, 20 June 2005 5:35 P GMT-06
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/3273.htmlPredicting Alzheimer’s.  That is what this article is about—predicting your mental and physical demise, to be prepared for your future.  I’m not sure how I feel about this.  Actually, I am.  
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Becoming Kaye Corleone

Monday, 20 June 2005 5:34 P GMT-06
The last couple days I have been having wedding fantasies.  Wedding fantasies followed by society wife fantasies.  I don’t know why, it is not like me at all.  Maybe it is the number of weddings coming up for friends in my extended social circle
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Jew Candy--Jewish Book of Why

Sunday, 19 June 2005 11:12 A GMT-06
I emailed my Rabbi and emailed Ronnie--the two men I take my jewish questions to.  Then I realized that I have The Jewish Book of Why and thought I would check there.  Guess what?  It had an answer for me on the candy throwing at temple.Why is a b
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Jew Candy--not just for parades and purim anymore.

Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:37 A GMT-06
So last night was a jam packed erev shabbat service.  There was a bar mitzvah (erev bar mitzvah) and a first shabbat for a baby girl and a couple about to be wed received a blessing.Okay all you jews who read my blog.  After the blessing--you know,
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Acoustic Little Pill

Friday, 17 June 2005 5:44 P GMT-06
I gave in.  Is it giving in when it is spontaneous?  Yesterday the Red Eye ran an article about Alanis Morisette's Acoustic recording of Jagged Little Pill.  When I dropped by Starbucks for a coffee yesterday, there it was and now it is in my CD p
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Huzzah! an "A" level gift given

Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:07 P GMT-06
First of all, I blew it by not getting Ashqi something for her birthday (or remembering it) and on her birthday yapping about the perfect present I got Ronnie and gave him a month in advance.  I'm an asshole.  Sigh.Ronnie got the second shirt I got
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Career Girl ReCap--temping and dating

Thursday, 16 June 2005 9:46 P GMT-06
I kept waiting for the craziness to begin.  New Business is a whirlwind of PR-goodness or so I'd been told.  So I waited and waited and waited.  This week, unlike my first, I had work to do while I waited for the BIG PROJECT.  Here's the simple t
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P.S. Shavu'ot

Tuesday, 14 June 2005 10:54 P GMT-06
Since I don't feel super comfortable speaking up about jewish things, I only spoke up the one time.  Instead, I did offer to read aloud in each session when they asked for a reader.  On the way to prayers, I was complimented on my reading voice.Tha
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Shavu'ot--one hell of a night.

Tuesday, 14 June 2005 10:30 P GMT-06
Last night I finally came down from my Shavu'ot high and debriefed with Ronnie about the whole experience.   Much to my surprise, I did not collapse when I got home from work.  I met up with my friend Jill, a writer (and lawyer, but she's really a
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