This week was delightful.
This week was basically just a big built up to shabbat. But along the way some good things happened.
For one, work became really good. I've been given the tasks of compiling the evidence about church child pornography cases for the past 5 years. It's a huge amount of work. It's sad work but it's quite useful.
I'm also compiling the evidence on the Abu Ghraib torturers, their court martials, their convictions and sentences for another case, which is also great work.
Lastly and this is my favourite, I've been doing some interesting research into the constitutional right to freedom of religion and whether that gives churches immunity from litigation for negligently hiring or failing to supervise paedophile priests. You would think that they would be held accountable but there's a bunch of states (I'm look at you, Utah) that think that to hold churches accountable for that is to encroach on their right to free exercise of their religion. I think I might write up an academia article for this on behalf of the firm, which would be a nice experience. All in all, work has been getting interesting.
On Wednesday night I went to see "Sleep No More" which was an alternative theatre production gifted to me by my boyfriend's family (really just his sister...). It's a huge haunted house play, where you wanted around following various actors do spooky things, like die and come back to life. There was a grave yard in the house. It was amazing and scary. Highly recommended.
Shabbat dinner this week I had 7 friends over, including Erica who slept by me. It was really fun, a good mix of people, except for this one random guy who accosted me at shule and invited himself over. He was a strange character, but he certainly added flavour to the company and it reminded me of my Nachlaot shabbatot where you never know what will happen! Lunch was at a friend of mine's of the Rova. There were a bunch of other HaRova girls there. It was a really nice reunion, I was surprised at how cool and liberal they all were. Who knew?
Saturday night I went to a Channuka part in Brooklyn. It was great. Instead of wearing ugly Christmas jumpers people were wearing ugly channuka sweaters. It was heaps of fun. Though that did mean getting home at about 3.30am again....
Today I got up way too early considering how little i'd slept, but still too late to do anything productive with my morning. I did however run into my neighbour Tal Segal, who also happened to be my madrich in Bnei Akiva. Small world. I ran some errands (more on them later..) and then went out to dinner with my Aunt n Uncle on the upper west side. It was great fun and they are really lovely. After dinner I went to go visit an apartment which I think I will sublet. It's a gorgeous big 1 bedroom apt in Washington Heights.
Now on the the errands. I was quite busy today booking flights and organising visas n the like b/c MY BOYFRIEND IS COMING TO NY! Yay!
And that's all for this week.
This week was basically just a big built up to shabbat. But along the way some good things happened.
For one, work became really good. I've been given the tasks of compiling the evidence about church child pornography cases for the past 5 years. It's a huge amount of work. It's sad work but it's quite useful.
I'm also compiling the evidence on the Abu Ghraib torturers, their court martials, their convictions and sentences for another case, which is also great work.
Lastly and this is my favourite, I've been doing some interesting research into the constitutional right to freedom of religion and whether that gives churches immunity from litigation for negligently hiring or failing to supervise paedophile priests. You would think that they would be held accountable but there's a bunch of states (I'm look at you, Utah) that think that to hold churches accountable for that is to encroach on their right to free exercise of their religion. I think I might write up an academia article for this on behalf of the firm, which would be a nice experience. All in all, work has been getting interesting.
On Wednesday night I went to see "Sleep No More" which was an alternative theatre production gifted to me by my boyfriend's family (really just his sister...). It's a huge haunted house play, where you wanted around following various actors do spooky things, like die and come back to life. There was a grave yard in the house. It was amazing and scary. Highly recommended.
Shabbat dinner this week I had 7 friends over, including Erica who slept by me. It was really fun, a good mix of people, except for this one random guy who accosted me at shule and invited himself over. He was a strange character, but he certainly added flavour to the company and it reminded me of my Nachlaot shabbatot where you never know what will happen! Lunch was at a friend of mine's of the Rova. There were a bunch of other HaRova girls there. It was a really nice reunion, I was surprised at how cool and liberal they all were. Who knew?
Saturday night I went to a Channuka part in Brooklyn. It was great. Instead of wearing ugly Christmas jumpers people were wearing ugly channuka sweaters. It was heaps of fun. Though that did mean getting home at about 3.30am again....
Today I got up way too early considering how little i'd slept, but still too late to do anything productive with my morning. I did however run into my neighbour Tal Segal, who also happened to be my madrich in Bnei Akiva. Small world. I ran some errands (more on them later..) and then went out to dinner with my Aunt n Uncle on the upper west side. It was great fun and they are really lovely. After dinner I went to go visit an apartment which I think I will sublet. It's a gorgeous big 1 bedroom apt in Washington Heights.
Now on the the errands. I was quite busy today booking flights and organising visas n the like b/c MY BOYFRIEND IS COMING TO NY! Yay!
And that's all for this week.
1 comment:
I actually yelled yay for you when I read your last line ! Makes me happy to hear. Missing you!
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