Memorial Day

On Memorial Day we went up to the old Salem cemetary, where all our patralinial relatives are burried for the last 170 years. 
My Father:  And that grandfather Jacob Amsler died a month before I was born.  My mother always used to maintain that I was a reincarnation of him.  She always used to say “Yes! [...]

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Chaplaincy

The slogan of the chaplaincy at King’s College is “Working with God for the whole college community.”

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Summer Work

The man I interviewed with today was literally the most montoned, nearly dead, version of excited about selling high-quality kitchen knives dude I have ever seen.  He was excited, and he was ready to ask questions like “Now Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, do you know why customers would rather buy in a one-on-one sales situation?” than [...]

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Marriage

My mother has taught Oscar a new joke.  Oscar knows how to “play dead” on the command “dead”, and so she’s started saying to him “Now Oscar, would you rather me married, or dead?”  and then he plays dead.  She says she’s practicing him for when David gets here.

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Sit-Up Regime

Me:  I think I’m way out of hill-running shape.  The seven mile loop left me way-sore.  Though I could also be sore from my new sit-up routine.
My Father: Well, I have this question for you: Do your abdominals hurt, or do your legs hurt?
Me: Well, I’ve got some new sit-up regime, and it’s left me [...]

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Tags

I’m trying to get the weblog picked up by Google (oh Google, why must you ignor my inqiuries).  Because last time when I put on tags it got picked up, I’m going to put tags on.  However, last time when I sent Google a post card it also got picked up, which doesn’t seem to [...]

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British Columbia

My grandparents are [lately] from British Columbia and we used to spend summers up there all the time.  As children, we were always aware of rare horror and crime more than most.  Our mother read a lot of super-market true-crime books and we all watched a lot of court TV.  This went along well with [...]

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Over Population

My Sister: I don’t think people should be allowed to have children because there is over-population.
My Father: Well, having children isn’t a crime.
My Sister: I know, that’s what I’m saying, it should be.

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Dog School

My mother: Oscar, roll over.  Oscar, roll over.
Oscar stands on his hind legs.
My mother:  Oooooo! I love dance!  Good dog!  Chauncy, shake.  Chauncy, shake.
Chauncy sits.
My mother:  Ooooo! I love sit!  Good dog!

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Summer Jobs

Jee, do I need a summer job like whoa.  I make excellent progress on the article, and I make excellent progress on the Judaism, but jee, I also need to make money.  How else next year will I buy grocceries (though I hope to get a visa that lets me work in London, too).  Oh! [...]

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Recycling Comes to Oregon

All of a sudden there are light brown recycling bins everywhere.  We’d never had recycling in rural Oregon before, which meant we had to drive our recycling to local depositories.  Because it was so inconvenient, everyone recycled a lot less than they otherwise would’ve.  Now everyone is recycling, though I notice we are not.
Me: How [...]

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CNN and the Oregon Primary

Though CNN has already given Oregon to Barak Obama, and though they’re doing this with only 30 percent of votes from two counties in, what troubles us the most is that they’re doing this without Josephine county on the map.  That’s right, they’ve forgotten one of our counties.  Come on CNN, ralley.  Ralley and get a [...]

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Adopt a Highway

I5 through California is variously adopted by:
“The Libertarian Party of Jefferson State”
“The Society of Aethiests and Freethinkers”
“The Ashland New World Ministry of Jesus Christ and Temple Beth Shalom”
“The Olive Pit; Everything You Need in Spicy Vegitables”
and “Mothers of World Italians”.

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Technology

My mother takes relatively poor care of her computer.
Me: Now mom, I’m just telling you now, your computer shouldn’t be covered in butter.
My mother: Give it to me, give it to me, I’ll wipe the butter off, I’ll wipe the butter off.

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Salt

We couldn’t find salt, when we were cooking in San Diego, except sidewalk salt for ice creme and snow.  We used it to season our soup.  It didn’t have “ingredients” on it, so it clearly wasn’t intended to be a food, but at the same time it had no markings indicating that it was poison, [...]

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Time to Go

It’s time to go.  I’m tired (though I’ve been up to not too much) (that’s not fair, I was pretty efficient today and got a lot done).  It has been a very pleasant year and ultimately, in a surprise move, I have to conclude Pomona has done well by me.  Silly though the school is, [...]

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Pictures

The last project of college is to gather pictures.  I’ve got to get pictures from Christina, Amanda, Megan, and Libbey.  It’s got to be done, there are such photo albums to make.
My parents come in tomorrow and they’ll help me pack(though I’d like my room to look nice when they come, and for this I’ll [...]

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Made for Eachother

Me and King’s College, we’re made for eachother.
I put an international stamp on a “Fly Trans-America Airlines” sticker a long time ago, and was going to send it to David as a postcard.  However, I never did send it and now I needed the stamp to send a paper to King’s College London (KCL) confirming [...]

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Senior Week

You can tell when the Pomona College seniors left for San Diego by the fall in my weblog statistics.  You can also tell Google hasn’t picked it up yet, because most of the readers are from Claremont.

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First Post to the Beth Din

The really interesting and substantive things that might happen on the weblog in the future, and constitute the plot of the weblog beyond just the genuinely funny things, are not so funny at all.
I’ve taken up a correspondence with Rabbi Simon of the London Beth Din.  On Friday I sent him a paper and formal [...]

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White Dove

Me: What else is up there?
My Father: We were going to go for a walk and a white dove of peace landed on the car, and it brought us a message of hope and peace.
Me: Oh.
My Father:  It was white and it landed on the car, and it didn’t go because it brought a message [...]

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Problem

Maddie: What do clinical, tropical, and great have in common?
Me: They’re all problems.
Everyone: No.
Maddie: The answer is “they’re all depressions”.
Me: That’s what I said.
Everyone: No, it isn’t.

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Yahweh is Clever, What an Endeavor

Maddive: I’ve been walking on the sand for two more hours than you!
Me: So you should be good at it.
Maddie: I’m tired! Its like I’ve been wandering in the desert for fourty years!
Me: Don’t even try to pull wandering in the desert on me!
Megan: No, if you think about it, wandering [...]

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Quiet

It’s quieter than North Campus has been in forever, because everyone has gone.  I should’ve gone to bed a long time ago, to sleep now that it’s quiet.

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Candy

My Mother: What’s going on there, pookiewillow?
Me:  Classes are over and David Hirsch sends me very fancy chocolate.
My Mother:  We all already love David, you don’t have to brag.

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Clouds

The clouds in the summer in Oregon are pleasant and they move across the sky in a way that is picturesque and that looks just like the sunny days children draw with white puffs.
The clouds in England are amazing and fast moving and always changing and often dark and often posing the possibility of rain [...]

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Rachel, Hannah, and Deborah

Receptionist: And what’s your name?
Me: Hannah.
Receptionist: Oh, that’s a lovely name.  You know, my daughter’s name is Hannah.
Me:  Oh.  It’s a real popular name.
Receptionist:  Yes, it’s lovely.  Just sit right over here an Rachel will be right with you.
Hairdresser:  Hello!  I’m Deborah.
Me: Oh? (I thought she was Rachel.)  I’m Hannah.
Hairdresser:  Oh?  What a lovely name!  [...]

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Google

Also, the weblog is not picked up by Google.  I’d like it to be.  If you know how, please help me.

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Stetson Revisited

My Father: I guess I’ll be driving your white Taurus up the coast with Hannah in about a week and a half.
My Cowboy Grandfather: Is that right. Well, that’s just excellent Douglas. You know that’s a great car. And you know, come to think of it, I left my $200 [...]

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Anti-Deer Spray

My mother:  I got some more motion censored sprinklers that go off when deer come near, so maybe our grapes won’t get eaten this year.  I also got some spray that you put on your yard, that promotes plant growth.  It says that it smells bad to dear, but that people can’t smell it.  It [...]

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Alumni Dinner and Senior Ball

Every year the Alumni Association of Pomona College puts on a very fancy dinner for exiting seniors.  In the last three years this fancy dinner has been followed by a formal ball.  Though we all are impressed by the relatively cultured evening, we discovered recently that the ball was created because the formal dinner has [...]

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Bromley

The two origins of the name Bromley are as follows:
Most people named “Bromley” were originally named “Frumle” or “Fromel”.  This is from Poland.  In Warsaw “Frumle” was much more common.  The name was very common in Bialystok, where it was said “Fromel”.
Other people named “Bromley” are from “Bromley” in Kent, UK.  This “Bromley” is a [...]

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