(no subject)

[xiphias]

So, I actually showed up at the Tuesday night Diesel thingy today, first time ever. For non-Bostonians, folks meet at the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square every Tuesday night.

I didn't entirely intend to, it's just that my boss at Hebrew school thought it'd be a good idea if the woman I'm gonna be co-teaching with and I met socially at some point before Hebrew school started, so he took us both out to dinner at Diva, which is an Indian restaurant which is right smack across the street from Diesel. So, since Lis and I showed up to Davis Square a bit early, we killed some time at Diesel.

Things I did today include mailing two boxes to undauntra which I was supposed to have mailed several days ago, but I didn't know we had them, because there were three boxes in the back seat of the car, and I mailed them, and Lis never mentioned that, in addition to the three boxes in the back seat, there were ALSO two boxes in the trunk; a doctor's appointment where I mentioned that my antidepressant doesn't seem to be doing anything useful anymore and we have no insurance anymore anyway; returning books and videos to the Cambridge Public Library and also getting out the most recent Callahan's novel; stopping into Diesel briefly; and meeting my co-teacher for Hebrew school, who is a grad student at Brandeis in their "Coexistence and Conflict" program, so she's clearly setting herself up for one of the most difficult jobs imaginable, and also one of the most important. I haven't the foggiest idea how one would go about trying to put a divided and warring culture back together -- or, frankly, together in the first place -- but I certainly hope that SHE does have ideas. And that they work.

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Damn, I almost went to Diesel tonight. I felt that with the apartment in chaos from everyone moving I'd better stay home instead in case anyone needed anything.

Be prepared to cry when you read the newest Callahan's. But it's so much better than Key was.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Be prepared to cry when you read the newest Callahan's. But it's so much better than Key was.

Yeah. NOW you warn me. I just finished it. I think I was crying from page 260 until the end. Some of them happy tears. Not all.

[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

It was good to see you, even briefly! :)

[gingicat]

Of *course* you show up at Diesel on the Tuesday when we're bone-tired and have chores to do. *sticks out tongue at you*

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Just to let both of you (and whoever else wanders across this) know, I'll definitely be there next week (the 7th), because I can't be there again until December or January.

Damn Tuesday night classes. Third straight semester.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Argh! Why is it that so many things that I'd want to do, meets on Tuesday nights? It's almost as though I had a life! :) (Vox Lucens, Christmas Revels, Bookcrossing meetups, and this makes #4.)

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Coexistence and Conflict an interesting program concept to be involved in. I fear that it will be needed one day to deal with the way our own country is going. No matter who wins the election I'm expecting a general breakdown between the right and the left to continue until we return to the state of unrest that we reached in say 67-70, when things like the Detroit Riots and such occurred.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I think the main reason that we're NOT seeing riots like that in New York right now is that the police are on the protesters' side, mostly, rather than the RNC's side. . . tempers are high enough that, if the police were out in force in riot gear and nightsticks with tear-gas ready to go, I bet something WOULD happen. The fact that the police are mostly out there in regular police uniforms yelling encouragement to the protesters (someone mentioned that, in one of the marches, a police officer turned on his bullhorn and told the protesters, "Good energy there! Keep it up, you've only got one more mile to go!") is probably the reason that there HAVEN'T been any conflicts.