My high school was not your typical high school. The teachers drove used Chevys, Toyotas, and Chryslers; the student parking lot was full of Mercedes, BMW's, and Land Rovers. Although there were many rich, snobby kids at my school, it wasn't like in the movies where cheerleaders ruled. No - the name of the game at my school was college admissions.
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February 21st, 2010
Gym Class
Remember back in gym class when two students would get to choose the teams? Just the sound of the teacher announcing who was captain would fill my heart with dread. We'd line up in front of them and wait to hear our names called. They always started with the most sought out teammates and ended with me. On a good day, I'd get second to last.
February 2nd, 2010
Birthday Musings
When I was a kid, I assumed that my grandparents had been old forever. When I was a kid, I never understood why people lied about being twenty-nine. Why make up such an old age if you're trying to sound young?
January 12th, 2010
Grains of Time (and Rice)
I have recently become an expert - nay, a master - of white rice preparation. How, you ask? I don't know exactly, but my white rice of late has had the perfect balance of oil, salt, moistness, and fluff. It is everything I ever hoped for and dreamed for in a calorie-heavy, nutrition-light accompaniment to the delicious (and likewise unhealthy) sweet and sour meatballs I make many a Shabbos.
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Anger Management
I call it a "food mood." I don't know what it is exactly - we've never consulted a doctor for a technical term - but there is something very real and disturbing that happens to my husband's blood sugar when he gets hungry. It makes him faint, dizzy, and downright iRrAtiONal. It runs in his family, and now it runs in mine. (Aren't genes the best?)
December 18th, 2009
My Google Droid and the Miracle of Chanukah
They call it "Teeter," and it's just one of the many things that makes my new Eris Droid (not Motorola - it didn't look as much like an iPhone), one of the coolest gadgets I've gotten my hands on in a while.
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December 10th, 2009
Hollywood Hasidim
Although I haven’t seen the recently released, New York, I Love You, I have a pretty good guess as to what it’ll be like – well, the Hasidic part, at least: over-the-top, misinformed, melodramatic, and generally inaccurate. How can I be so sure? Because that's how Hasidim are always portrayed in Hollywood: Fiddler on the Roof, Yentl, A Stranger Among Us, Kadosh, various episodes of Law and Order...These characters are never anything more than caricatures - and negative ones at that.
