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I'm going home in a little over a week.

I'll miss things here, but I'm not going to cry and be all "How can I leave you, my beloved Israel?!" I know I'm prone to melodrama/histrionics (admittledly partly because I get a kick out of it), but I've never been one of those Obscene Israel Lovers, and now is hardly the time to start.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Israel. If I wasn't, I wouldn't consider making aliyah. I just don't see the point in waxing lyrical about the country is all.)

While I do miss NYC and am ready to resume my steamy love affair with it, I'm really looking forward to going back to Highland Park. I have a few tentative adventures planned and I'll hopefully make the most of my time.

In other news, I've been doing a lot of translating. It's not the most interesting work, but I actually prefer it to some of the other articles. And since I'm in the awkward position of not being able to conduct interviews in Hebrew yet being able to decipher Hebrew press releases (with the help of online translators, Google, and asking Hebrew speakers about a few words) and not finding the work offensive, that's what I've been doing this week. It's been keeping me pretty busy, which I do enjoy.

I'll share more of the aforementioned HP adventures later...one of them may or may not involve being ON A BOAT...