in that order?
almond joy received her first call (tzav gius) for the Israeli army. she should come to Beer-Sheva in May for medical exams. I think she's planning to ask for the deferment.
she also got the news that she didn't get into the other summer program. if this is the trial run, she'll be fine, I'll be chopped meat by the end of the college application process. it is interesting to watch how this whole process runs: asking teachers for recommendations, finding out about deadlines (and postal deadlines and web deadlines) and then waiting. meanwhile, she has wonderful other plans that include swimming and a 12 day trip east with youth in government. I think she was not disturbed, but here I am, hovering, wanting them to know what they're missing. it's going to be a long college application season.
wall colors: on kibbutz, Yaakov from Ofakim painted the apartments. we had two choices - white or crem (off-white). I couldn't wait to get to the shikuni-vatikim where I'd get to choose my own colors. that was where the grown-ups lived, the ones who didn't move up every 2 years or so. the ones who chose their own furniture, too. most of my friends got to those apartments (getting married and having kids fast-tracked the process). anyway, here I am choosing my own colors and I've painted ceilings of white and walls of, yup, crem. and thinking maybe this is the year that I will buy my first sofa. maybe for my 50th birthday? or not.
and I'm dreaming about the kibbutz all the time. I suspect that this new 6 inches of snow has something to do with that. I know people don't have to live in places where it snows.
This one is mind over matter -- just ignore it and it will go away -- eventually.
Posted by: Inside the Philosophy Factory | March 31, 2008 at 02:59 PM