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Jun. 3rd, 2015 02:32 amI honestly lost count of how many peaches and nectarines I ate today, but I would guess around ten, with a few extra apricots thrown in, because when it comes to summer fruit I am a bottomless pit, and while it is not yet summer, per se, it is definitely summer in my fridge (and apparently my belly).
With summer comes wedding-season, and on Friday I'm going to the wedding of my oldest childhood friend; I met her just before I turned six, on my first day in school in America, where she was the girl assigned to take me in, sit by me, explain what all of these English-speakers wanted from me, as an Israeli who'd moved their a year prior herself. We didn't keep in continuous touch over the years, but every time we reconnected we picked up exactly where we'd left off. She has an awesome wedding planned - geeky and themed, and I'm looking forward to the event itself cause it sounds like it's going to be fun. I'm also incredibly moved that she asked me to be a witness on the ketubah. I've never done it before, and the only reason I can even do it here is because they're having a Reform wedding, which is not a legal marriage in Israel but does allow women to serve as witnesses yay, and I am very, very touched to be included in this moment in their lives.
That will be Friday. Meanwhile, let me talk about my acapella group.
A few months ago I joined an acapella group/choir thing. It's about half-Israelis, half-Anglos - that's the local term for anyone who moved to Israel whose mother tongue is English - and I really enjoy it. It's a rather inconsistent group - about 10-15 people show up every week, and it's not always the same people, so it's a little hard to have meaningful progress in a lot of the songs we're singing - and socially, it can sometimes get a little awkward - but it's so, so fun to sing in a group, to sing acapella in a group, where it's just our voices and nothing else. And we're scheduling some small performances for the summer so we have a goal to improve towards, and we're working on improving the social stuff too. We meet once a week for three hours, and I've never once wanted to skip practice because I wasn't feeling like it or anything like that, which, you know, says something.
Last week a bunch of us from the group went to see Pitch Perfect 2, which was, to me, as enjoyable as the first movie. My fantasy involved us spontaneously bursting into song to enthusiastic applause outside the movie theater, which of course didn't happen, but it was still a fun evening. Apparently one of the girls had studied at Tufts and been on their Jewish acapella group, and according to her, the Tufts acapella scene was not dissimilar to the fictional Bartan University's, including parties only for acapella folks. Which seems so very Hollywood to me, but apparently might be true! (She also knows the dude who arranged the numbers for the movie, who is the same dude who arranged the Warblers numbers on Glee, which is... cool to know by association, I guess, ha.)
Another dude in our group is a guy who recently discovered I'm into hockey, and I discovered he's a fan as well - his son plays roller/ice hockey in Israel. This was exciting for both of us, and quickly devolved into two hilarious conversations:
1. Yesterday, out of the blue, he emailed me a photo of a #4 ORR Blackhawks jersey, with the line: without google lets see if u know the significance of this black hock jersey. Weirded out yet amused, I played along and wrote back who it belonged to, to which he replied, Very good. Played all career with bruins. Scored sudden death overtime goal against St. Louis to win cup. Google bobby Orr the goal. Amazing. LOLOL basically he was fake-hockey-fangirl quizzing me, it was amazing. I replied with an explanation that I knew the goal and another little tidbit, to which he went: Your knowledge is quite impressive
...thank you sir, I really needed that validation, thanks. Anyway, this brings me to the second conversation:
2. Which involves a tiny bit of background. The OHL - Ontario Hockey League - is a very serious junior hockey league in Canada, for kids aged 15-20. Kids are drafted to it at 15-16, and play there, hoping to make it to the NHL. The draft was held in April this year, and amazingly enough, the very first kid picked was David Levin - an Israeli kid.
This is amazing on multiple levels - the first, that an Israeli kid was drafted to the OHL to begin with - he's the first Israeli kid to be drafted to anything in North American hockey ever - and second, that he was picked first. This kid is the son of a Soviet-born roller hockey coach in Israel, and grew up playing roller hockey until he left for Canada alone at the age of 12, to study at a boarding school with a good hockey program, and try to make it to the NHL. Until the age of 12 or 13, this kid had never put on a pair of ice skates. So - that's impressive in and of itself, especially when you look at the names of top-10 OHL draftees from the past few years and look at where they are now (hint: a whole bunch of them are NHL stars.)
Of course, I don't know if he'll make it, and a lot can happen in a few years. But anyway, acapella!dude tells me that this weekend his son played in the roller hockey championship here. Both of the teams that made it to the final are coached by the same guy - David Levin's dad, which really tells you a lot about the state of hockey in our country - and since he couldn't coach them against each other in the same game, he coached the one team, and David Levin, who is here for the summer, coached the other. The latter ended up winning, it's a cool story, and I was totally fine until acapella dude emailed me yesterday, saying: if you have any interest in meeting David Levin, let me know.
Which, hahahahaha no dear god no. Like, I had to take a step back from the computer to contain the levels of NO that went through me at that moment. There are things that people in RPF fandoms need to back away from very, very slowly. Or, you know. Very fast. Ask me again in 10, 20 years and we'll talk ///o\\\
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In other news, I'm so tempted to go to Edinburgh again this summer, for the Fringe Festival again. Honestly, the main things holding me back are the thought of - if I go somewhere, maybe diversify a little, there are definitely other places to see - and also, I'm just wondering, what if it's too soon? Maybe I should - spread it out, or something, across my... life, so it's not too much of a... wow, that sounds dumb when I write it down, okay. Definitely not a factor I need to take into consideration. I shall think on this, hmmmm.
With summer comes wedding-season, and on Friday I'm going to the wedding of my oldest childhood friend; I met her just before I turned six, on my first day in school in America, where she was the girl assigned to take me in, sit by me, explain what all of these English-speakers wanted from me, as an Israeli who'd moved their a year prior herself. We didn't keep in continuous touch over the years, but every time we reconnected we picked up exactly where we'd left off. She has an awesome wedding planned - geeky and themed, and I'm looking forward to the event itself cause it sounds like it's going to be fun. I'm also incredibly moved that she asked me to be a witness on the ketubah. I've never done it before, and the only reason I can even do it here is because they're having a Reform wedding, which is not a legal marriage in Israel but does allow women to serve as witnesses yay, and I am very, very touched to be included in this moment in their lives.
That will be Friday. Meanwhile, let me talk about my acapella group.
A few months ago I joined an acapella group/choir thing. It's about half-Israelis, half-Anglos - that's the local term for anyone who moved to Israel whose mother tongue is English - and I really enjoy it. It's a rather inconsistent group - about 10-15 people show up every week, and it's not always the same people, so it's a little hard to have meaningful progress in a lot of the songs we're singing - and socially, it can sometimes get a little awkward - but it's so, so fun to sing in a group, to sing acapella in a group, where it's just our voices and nothing else. And we're scheduling some small performances for the summer so we have a goal to improve towards, and we're working on improving the social stuff too. We meet once a week for three hours, and I've never once wanted to skip practice because I wasn't feeling like it or anything like that, which, you know, says something.
Last week a bunch of us from the group went to see Pitch Perfect 2, which was, to me, as enjoyable as the first movie. My fantasy involved us spontaneously bursting into song to enthusiastic applause outside the movie theater, which of course didn't happen, but it was still a fun evening. Apparently one of the girls had studied at Tufts and been on their Jewish acapella group, and according to her, the Tufts acapella scene was not dissimilar to the fictional Bartan University's, including parties only for acapella folks. Which seems so very Hollywood to me, but apparently might be true! (She also knows the dude who arranged the numbers for the movie, who is the same dude who arranged the Warblers numbers on Glee, which is... cool to know by association, I guess, ha.)
Another dude in our group is a guy who recently discovered I'm into hockey, and I discovered he's a fan as well - his son plays roller/ice hockey in Israel. This was exciting for both of us, and quickly devolved into two hilarious conversations:
1. Yesterday, out of the blue, he emailed me a photo of a #4 ORR Blackhawks jersey, with the line: without google lets see if u know the significance of this black hock jersey. Weirded out yet amused, I played along and wrote back who it belonged to, to which he replied, Very good. Played all career with bruins. Scored sudden death overtime goal against St. Louis to win cup. Google bobby Orr the goal. Amazing. LOLOL basically he was fake-hockey-fangirl quizzing me, it was amazing. I replied with an explanation that I knew the goal and another little tidbit, to which he went: Your knowledge is quite impressive
...thank you sir, I really needed that validation, thanks. Anyway, this brings me to the second conversation:
2. Which involves a tiny bit of background. The OHL - Ontario Hockey League - is a very serious junior hockey league in Canada, for kids aged 15-20. Kids are drafted to it at 15-16, and play there, hoping to make it to the NHL. The draft was held in April this year, and amazingly enough, the very first kid picked was David Levin - an Israeli kid.
This is amazing on multiple levels - the first, that an Israeli kid was drafted to the OHL to begin with - he's the first Israeli kid to be drafted to anything in North American hockey ever - and second, that he was picked first. This kid is the son of a Soviet-born roller hockey coach in Israel, and grew up playing roller hockey until he left for Canada alone at the age of 12, to study at a boarding school with a good hockey program, and try to make it to the NHL. Until the age of 12 or 13, this kid had never put on a pair of ice skates. So - that's impressive in and of itself, especially when you look at the names of top-10 OHL draftees from the past few years and look at where they are now (hint: a whole bunch of them are NHL stars.)
Of course, I don't know if he'll make it, and a lot can happen in a few years. But anyway, acapella!dude tells me that this weekend his son played in the roller hockey championship here. Both of the teams that made it to the final are coached by the same guy - David Levin's dad, which really tells you a lot about the state of hockey in our country - and since he couldn't coach them against each other in the same game, he coached the one team, and David Levin, who is here for the summer, coached the other. The latter ended up winning, it's a cool story, and I was totally fine until acapella dude emailed me yesterday, saying: if you have any interest in meeting David Levin, let me know.
Which, hahahahaha no dear god no. Like, I had to take a step back from the computer to contain the levels of NO that went through me at that moment. There are things that people in RPF fandoms need to back away from very, very slowly. Or, you know. Very fast. Ask me again in 10, 20 years and we'll talk ///o\\\
*
In other news, I'm so tempted to go to Edinburgh again this summer, for the Fringe Festival again. Honestly, the main things holding me back are the thought of - if I go somewhere, maybe diversify a little, there are definitely other places to see - and also, I'm just wondering, what if it's too soon? Maybe I should - spread it out, or something, across my... life, so it's not too much of a... wow, that sounds dumb when I write it down, okay. Definitely not a factor I need to take into consideration. I shall think on this, hmmmm.
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