Look what happens when I try to be a good blogger...

For the first time in a long time, I really wanted to blog one day this week. I went online in the teacher's room in the school where I work (BTW, it's going great B"H.) and it just wouldn't let me get to blogger.com. Apparently they have some kind of filtering system, but it lets in most stuff. Gmail, Facebook, MuggleNet all worked, but I couldn't blog. So any hopes of blogging during the week as a way of getting back into blogging basically went down the drain. I'll need to save whatever I have to say for the weekends.
So why did I need to blog so badly? Because there was this little thing that my friend Jo Rowling said at a big event in New York last week. Albus Dumbledore is gay, and not just gay, but in love (what does in love mean, anyway?) with Gellert Grindelwald, who was his BFF-turned-enemy. So here's the thing. My religion prohibits homosexuality, which basically means I'm opposed to it. But I've never had anything against gay fictional characters. Until now. Maybe it's because this relationship was already a central part of the last book, and now it just looks totally different. Maybe it's because Jo didn't tell us until after the book was out. Which makes sense, because Harry never knew. But it's just so confusing. Towards the beginning of the week I was just mad. Then I was in denial, waiting for Jo to say she was just joking. I do find it a bit ridiculous, to be honest. Grindelwald?!
So Sherut is going well, but I'm really really in need of more time at home. I'm home now but going back to Ariel for Shabbat, and I just have no time. Going a bit crazy... Shabbat Shalom!

OK, this is just too cool.

Right here. I know this blog is a sad story, but I had to...

That was fun...

We just had the usual horde of cousins here for Succot, and it was so much fun. Between hanging out with my new Israeli little cousins, bonding with my older cousins, serious girl talk with my cousin's Kallah and a visit from a very old friend. All together, very cool.
Anyway, my poor neglected blog deserves a happy birthday! It should be two years sometime around yesterday or so. I'm now working on redoing it, and hopefully that should inspire me to blog more. It's not like my life is so boring right now...

I'm (still) so tired...

So basically, Yom Kippur in Ariel was really beautiful, with something between 300-500 people from the general public at Ne'ila. Right now, I'm really looking forward to being home for a week. And still wondering when I'm going to make a blog post worth reading.

I'm tired.

Which is probably why my blog posts keep looking like this. Maybe one of these days I'll get into the habit of posting every time I'm home. I had a freaky deja vu today where I walked into a building identical to part of my school, and I realized how much I miss school. Tomorrow morning I go back to Ariel for Yom Kippur, where I'll be davening with a Minyan for the general public. It should be beautiful. More on that later. Maybe on Chol Hamoed I'll really work on here. After that- no vacation till Purim!

Wow...

I've been a very bad blogger. I keep either not having internet access or not being in a bloggery mood. I'm not in a bloggery mood right now, so this is my post: Sherut has been pretty good, with a lot of hard work and a lot of not being home. And I feel the need to mention that I just got Crocs and became an instant fan. That's about it. Shana Tova!

I'm leaving...

It's almost 2 AM, and I'm just finished packing for my Sherut. I leave early tomorrow morning- I have to be in Ariel by 10. Wow. I'm way too tired to be writing anything particularly interesting. I've been really neglecting my blog lately, and all I can say is I hope that being away from home during the week, likely without access to the internet, won't keep me from blogging as much as I can this year.
That's all I can write at this hour. I'm off to serve my country...