In Which Things Are Complex
October 22, 2014
I won’t actually run through the next week or so. Things get wonderful and things get difficult. There are a lot of tears and a lot of happy moments. I make some progress on research and make some backwards steps elsewhere. When we resume our regular feature the Glee Club Show will likely be over, and the missing two weeks will thankfully be over as well.
Among the things I’ve learned this week are the difficulty of forgiveness, the value of close friendships and the ways that different people deal with things. Hopefully I’ll be a better person for it all.
As much as this post reads to be a little morose, the past week has been great too. It’s just harder to focus on those things!
Thursday/Friday – Day 151/152
December 31, 2012
Thursday was snowing and thus I was inside much of the day, visiting various galleries and reading lots of books. Finally I was getting the holiday I needed! In the afternoon I went to see Les Miserables which by my reckoning was good. Just good. Not particularly great as many had hoped. I put this down to the musical character of the movie, which was a little repetitive and thus dull. Many of the actors spent the entire time speaking the songs with trembling lips and tearful eyes, which meant that not that much singing actually took place.
Friday was shorter than I would have liked, largely due to the early dinner and shabbat time of 4:30. Thus my day mostly consisted of going for a walk in the city then catching up for coffee with Irit Shacharai, one of my mentors from the Weizmann Institute, pursuing research at the Rockefeller Institute. After that it was back to Yoni and Rivki’s for dinner with the girls and then some peace to read!