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gnomi ([personal profile] gnomi) wrote2011-09-14 01:34 pm

Wednesday Afternoon Rambly Bits

-- I like being able to use technical skills I haven't used in a while. In the course of one project, I used my knowledge of UNIX, Emacs, and HTML.

-- It's Wednesday, and I'm not sure at all what to make for Shabbat. I shall ponder, because it would be ideal if I could shop tonight and cook tomorrow night.

-- Still pondering the next knitting project. I'm thinking socks, mostly since I haven't done any in a while and they're a good portable project. Also, sock season is approaching (for some values of "approaching," inasmuch as it's mid-September and still in the 80s F).

-- Still no velociraptor attacks in the office since the last (purported) one.

-- Construction season continues apace, as they've torn up the area in front of the main entrance to my work building. For the next few weeks, I'll have to walk around the corner to enter the far entrance.

-- How is it possible that Rosh Hashannah starts two weeks from tonight? Wasn't it just Tisha b'Av?

-- I've started wearing tichels to work (I'd been wearing berets/a baseball cap previous). I'm not 100% sure why I waited until I'd been here almost two months; I'm much more comfortable in the tichels than I was in the hats.

-- Muffin and Squeaker have started attending a playgroup four days a week. From all reports, they're enjoying themselves. We're hoping they'll make some friends who are less than 20 years older than them.
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)

[personal profile] gingicat 2011-09-14 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Do the tichels come pre-tied, or does one have to learn to tie them?

I can certainly see why they're more comfortable!

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
They have both pre-tied (http://www.coveryourhair.com/womensPreTiedBandannas1.html) and untied ones (http://www.coveryourhair.com/israeli-tichels/solid-cotton-tichel.html) (my preferred) that you tie yourself. They also have tying instructions (http://www.coveryourhair.com/HowToTieTiechels.html).

[identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It does seem like the chagim are coming up very fast. (Eeeek!)

Where's the playgroup?
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)

[personal profile] gingicat 2011-09-14 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Eek indeed!

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
They're at Sara's Playgroup in Brighton. It's run by Sara S. from Kadimah.

[identity profile] aunt-becca.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben's only 1 year older :)

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed! :-) But I think he's one of their only age-mate friends.
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (confused/stressed - tangled-up kitten)

[personal profile] gingicat 2011-09-14 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely you, of all people, did not say "one of their only"?

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Blame sloppy rewriting (that sentence started out as "I think he's their only age-mate friend"). What I meant was "one of their few."

[identity profile] ephemera.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
time, time go wooosh. I'm not sure I approve.

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know I didn't give my approval to this.
bluepapercup: (headscarf)

[personal profile] bluepapercup 2011-09-15 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Time is passing, very quickly!

I've never seen you in a tichel (though I have seen you in snoods and hats) but I'm sure it looks lovely on you. I find them very comfortable and have enjoyed learning to tie them (though I wear them for temperature control and neatness of appearance rather than observance).

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a picture of me here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jperrea/3721409717/) in a tichel (and very pregnant; this was the Readercon before Muffin and Squeaker were born).