White Elephant

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Where to Start?

My sister Sara points out that I Sometimes use what she calls Winnie The Pooh capitalization - where I use a capital letter just for emphasis - she said it's not appropriate for a Resume.

I was told once upon a time that people have a year after a wedding to send out thank you notes - I guess I've put them off as long as I can. The funny part being that I wrote some of them about six months ago but they are still sitting around in a basket.

After 2 months without my digital camera because it was "being repaired" they finally replaced it with a new olympus with roughly the same specs.

My Guitar lessons are going well - anyone who remembers our wedding (or it's pictures) remembers a fellow in a wheelchair playing guitar. He (Gary) has been giving me lessons that have finally brought me to a point where a can play a nice multi-chord rhythym.

I've taken 2 of a ten weeks of Swedish Massage - a friend of mine (Shial) was looking for someone to take this course with him. At the end we recieve a certification which I guess means I can walk into any Hotel/Spa and start practicing for pay. Our classes work out to about 88% hebrew 2% French and 10% English. (please remember that 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I'm still doing construction a day or two per week. The most recent job has involved shoveling out a room about the size a typical Chicago Bedroom filled to the cieling with dirt. I'd explain why the dirt was there in the first place if I understood any better.

Internet at home - yeah, I can't go online at night because the computer is in the bedroom - and during the mornings before I go to IDT if I have time to relax I'm generally just playing through the maps on Warcraft 3 - though occasionaly I'll respond to an e-mail or two.

The other cool recent thing that I've done - I get a call one Sunday morning asking if I want to teach at an English speaking day camp. I'm told they're short a drama teacher and an art teacher. (this started right before the promotion so I was doing 4 day weeks) So I set a time - go accross the city and meet with the easily distractable Camp Director - who I think lost my faith about 15 minutes into our sceduled time when she answered her cellular phone saying "Oh I was just about to call you!" anyway to make a long story short (maybe I'll make it longer again later) I taught 5 classes to the 7th/8th grade group who then put on a magic show (with a little help from the teacher)

I wonder if I was more awake - would I proofread this?