here vs there, we are suspended partway
Jun. 8th, 2008 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabWell, most of our furniture has been moved to the new place, but the phone and DSL don't get transferred till Wednesday, so for now the computer and its little table are still in the old house, where I don't get much chance to use it, because when we're back at the old house, we're packing all the remaining STUFF - things that were in closets and cabinets and cubbyholes, plus the last couple of bookcases' worth of books.
Speaking of books, haven't finished much lately, but here's one:
How to Spell Chanukah edited by Emily Franklin - 18 writers write about 8 nights of lights. Some funny essays here. One about Chanukah in Israel, where there isn't much competing nonsense about Christmas. "People know about Christmas here. It's called Chag Hamolad, the Holiday of the Birth, obliquely referring to the action, not the man. (They also call New Year's Eve Sylvester, like the Germans do, although Israelis probably don't know it's named for Saint Sylvester, who was pope in the fourth century CE and allegedly cured Constantine from leprosy, after converting him to Christianity." I did not know that. Note to self: look up old book series, Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family, a chronicle of a big Jewish family on the Lower East Side at the turn of the previous century.
Speaking of books, haven't finished much lately, but here's one:
How to Spell Chanukah edited by Emily Franklin - 18 writers write about 8 nights of lights. Some funny essays here. One about Chanukah in Israel, where there isn't much competing nonsense about Christmas. "People know about Christmas here. It's called Chag Hamolad, the Holiday of the Birth, obliquely referring to the action, not the man. (They also call New Year's Eve Sylvester, like the Germans do, although Israelis probably don't know it's named for Saint Sylvester, who was pope in the fourth century CE and allegedly cured Constantine from leprosy, after converting him to Christianity." I did not know that. Note to self: look up old book series, Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family, a chronicle of a big Jewish family on the Lower East Side at the turn of the previous century.
