This week went quickly! (It usually does, doesn’t it).
I eked out another page of lit review. We are at 23 total. The main thing now is for me to go through the list of references I collected over the past few years and make sure that I’ve taken a look at all of them and used anything useful. And once I’ve well and truly read what I’m going to read, I need to organize my typed pages better under subheadings. So two main things, I suppose.
I watched the Saks Fifth Avenue light show (on my winter list). The most entertaining part of this was the HUGE crowd watching with me, like where do all these people come from? The Saks windows have been revealed and they are beautiful. It looks like a travel theme this year.
One day this week, I walked 17,000 steps (the rest of the week I was basically sedentary), including an almost hourlong walk from work to Greenwich Village to hear an illustrator talk (Maira Kalman) at the Salmagundi Club. Just being inside this building was an experience; it’s basically a house in the city – the talk was in the library. I seemed to be the youngest person there by a few decades. This is not unusual for me, lol.
On that note, my Spotify Wrapped informed me that I have the musical tastes of an 80-year-old. Lol.
Some friends invited me to their apartment for a Shabbos meal; I brought over dips last night and in the grocery store I realized that choosing an array of Shabbos dips is one of those things you can overthink quite badly. Ask me how I know.
I recently read most of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition, by Naomi Seidman. So very interesting.
The semester is almost finished. I’m giving my final next week, and I have to grade my students’ research papers and the reflection papers they are handing in week after next. And then…I have a few weeks off before the spring semester begins (I’m teaching two sections again. BH and also what am I thinking).
Have a restful Shabbos, and thank you, as always, for being here.
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