Farewell party for Tobin last night
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xiphiasTobin's one of my mother's "other kids". She's turning 32 or 33, I forget which, on the 13th, and then defending for her PhD the next day. Soon after that, she's moving to Los Angeles, where she hails from, where's she's got a post-doc lined up to turn her dissertation into a published book. Actually, she's got a book contract for the book AND a post-doc to work on the book. Which is nice.
Tobin edited Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives, which is about to come out in paperback (it's $57 for the hardcover, but the paperback's gonna be under $20); she wrote a really cool essay called "On Being A Jewish Feminist Valley Girl", published in the essay anthology Yentyl's Revenge; she's going to be writing a book about Jewish young adults, 25-35, with "Jewish jobs" -- working in Jewish foundations, schools, and so forth, and how they percieve their connection to Judaism.
Mom's very sad to be losing her. Tobin sorta came into Mom's life just after Leila left for Australia -- and Mom kinda needs someone to just play with. Leila was Mom's playmate when she lived at home; then Tobin was. It's hard on her; Mom really loves Tobin, and vice versa, so it's hard for her to let go.
So, any of you who want to hang out with my Mom more -- now would be a great time.
Anyway, the party was fun. We sang songs and danced around and I made punch. (Cheap burgundy, sugar, orange juice, pinapple juice, chunks of pineapple and mango, slices of orange and lemon.) There was cake. Mom's friend Alice pulled out the oven rack to do her oven rack trick. (You hang the oven rack from two wire hangers, hang the wire hangers from your fingers, stick your fingers in your ears, and have someone bang on the oven rack with a fork. I don't quite get the appeal myself, but everybody else at the party said it was cool. Except Lis, who was the only one who didn't try it.)
When Mom was setting up the party, she asked Tobin what SHE wanted out of the party, and Tobin said that she wanted it to be ALL ABOUT HER! So it was. We made a "snap cup" which is something that Tobin and Mom got from "Legally Blonde 2", but which my sister assures us is actually done in sororities -- you've got a cup in which everyone writes something nice about the person on little pieces of paper, and then the person reads them, and you say "Snaps for Tobin!" Well, in this case, anyway.
See, it's not that I'm normal or straitlaced. It's just that . . . well, no matter how strange I am, I'm never going to be as strange as the rest of my family, so why bother trying?
Everybody cried a lot during the party. And it was a lot of fun.
Note: I put down the wrong date originally for Tobin's birthday. Corrected.
Tobin edited Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives, which is about to come out in paperback (it's $57 for the hardcover, but the paperback's gonna be under $20); she wrote a really cool essay called "On Being A Jewish Feminist Valley Girl", published in the essay anthology Yentyl's Revenge; she's going to be writing a book about Jewish young adults, 25-35, with "Jewish jobs" -- working in Jewish foundations, schools, and so forth, and how they percieve their connection to Judaism.
Mom's very sad to be losing her. Tobin sorta came into Mom's life just after Leila left for Australia -- and Mom kinda needs someone to just play with. Leila was Mom's playmate when she lived at home; then Tobin was. It's hard on her; Mom really loves Tobin, and vice versa, so it's hard for her to let go.
So, any of you who want to hang out with my Mom more -- now would be a great time.
Anyway, the party was fun. We sang songs and danced around and I made punch. (Cheap burgundy, sugar, orange juice, pinapple juice, chunks of pineapple and mango, slices of orange and lemon.) There was cake. Mom's friend Alice pulled out the oven rack to do her oven rack trick. (You hang the oven rack from two wire hangers, hang the wire hangers from your fingers, stick your fingers in your ears, and have someone bang on the oven rack with a fork. I don't quite get the appeal myself, but everybody else at the party said it was cool. Except Lis, who was the only one who didn't try it.)
When Mom was setting up the party, she asked Tobin what SHE wanted out of the party, and Tobin said that she wanted it to be ALL ABOUT HER! So it was. We made a "snap cup" which is something that Tobin and Mom got from "Legally Blonde 2", but which my sister assures us is actually done in sororities -- you've got a cup in which everyone writes something nice about the person on little pieces of paper, and then the person reads them, and you say "Snaps for Tobin!" Well, in this case, anyway.
See, it's not that I'm normal or straitlaced. It's just that . . . well, no matter how strange I am, I'm never going to be as strange as the rest of my family, so why bother trying?
Everybody cried a lot during the party. And it was a lot of fun.
Note: I put down the wrong date originally for Tobin's birthday. Corrected.
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Date: 2003-08-10 06:47 pm (UTC)My favorite swordfish, hug Tobin for me and give her my love. And hug your mom for me and give her my love, but you know there's a standing order for that. :D