scandalous!

I have a place to live for the summer! Sadly, my internship is not yet confirmed. I probably should have taken care of that first, but I wanted to make sure I had a place to live...my interview with my potential placement is on Sunday, so think happy thoughts for me!

I have been having thoughts about getting a masters in arts/fine arts/performing arts management. I have been doing my research. I texted my parents to share this news, and my mom responded with "I'm surprised you didn't think of this sooner", while my dad said, "YIKES!!!" But then, he wants me to be a lawyer, so nothing else is going to make him particularly happy.

I have exciting news! I won a King's Crown Leadership Award (the Silver Crown, to be specific) from Columbia for my work with Wind Ensemble and the Festival of Winds! I made sure to tell my parents, to strongly hint that my time with the Wind Ensemble has not been a waste. (My parents are always telling me to do more with JTS, even though they do not realize that JTS offers very limited extracurriculars. And none of them really involve music!)

thoughts

Hello, my lovelies! I have a bevy of things to share with you. The first is that I am listening to Ke$ha's Tik Tok on a continuous loop. So I'm probably not super sane. But this is okay!

I went rummaging through my closet today, looking for all of my Pokemon cards (I'm at home, fyi--and I found almost all of the Pokemon cards!) when I found a picture of my ex-boyfriend. (The one I was madly in love with and wanted to go to university in Toronto so that I could be closer to him. Yeah, I was one of those.) Now, even though that relationship has been over for almost 4 years, I had a pretty intensely negative, visceral reaction to that picture. It was from right before he and I started dating. This is way before he became more religious and decided that I basically wasn't religious enough for him. That's right, Orthodox Judaism stole my boyfriend. It's the reason that I am inclined to dislike Orthodox men.

In other news, I'm playing in the pit orchestra for the CMTS production of Fiddler on the Roof this weekend, which doesn't really help things...

Pesach is going well! The first night was just me, my parents, and my siblings. There was arguing, me and my brother tried to one-up each other (I go to JTS, so it's really no competition), my mom asked questions I knew the answer to but thought I didn't because they were obvious and I thought she was looking for some deeper answer.

My personal favorite was when she asked why we say shehechiyanu (a prayer for when something is done for the first time (that year)) at both seders and I said that it was because each time it is supposed to be as if we are being freed for the first time. This answer impressed my mom. I made it up on the spot. Afterwards, I was instructed to not use "[my] JTS bullshit" to answer any of her questions. Whatever.

The second night, the whole family was over...well, part of it, at least. It was fun! My dad's cousin told a story about how her family used to take old Pesach desserts to the zoo and throw them into the bear enclosure. That can't be legal. We then participated in a tongue twister competition with one of the songs. As usual, I won--I am the tongue twister queen.

Tomorrow, I am returning to NYC, where I will survive on matza pizza and salad for the rest of the holiday, because I cannot be bothered to cook real food. Yay!