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Yesterday I went upstate. Before we get started on the real post, let me observe that New York State is exceedingly large and exceedingly empty.* We** drove*** for three hours straight without seeing any civilisation other than service stations. Not even fields.
Anyway, the point of this was to meet up with Aviel and a couple of other lasses who are on the sofrut track. It was fun! We ate nice food and hung out. LM, whose house we were at, makes parchment; dead deer happen in her neck of the woods, and she gets the skins and does all the processing - soaks them (there's a stream in her back garden, conveniently) and scrapes them and stretches them and dries them and sands them, and they turn into parchment. I mean, how cool is that?
It was awfully good just hanging out with these nice women and talking shop and chilling. I haven't felt so un-gender-oppressed in ages.
* a) Country mouse.
b) The other states are too, for all I know, but I haven't driven through those for three uneventful hours.
** Me and LC who kindly gave me a lift.
*** That is to say, LC drove, and I watched.
Anyway, the point of this was to meet up with Aviel and a couple of other lasses who are on the sofrut track. It was fun! We ate nice food and hung out. LM, whose house we were at, makes parchment; dead deer happen in her neck of the woods, and she gets the skins and does all the processing - soaks them (there's a stream in her back garden, conveniently) and scrapes them and stretches them and dries them and sands them, and they turn into parchment. I mean, how cool is that?
It was awfully good just hanging out with these nice women and talking shop and chilling. I haven't felt so un-gender-oppressed in ages.
* a) Country mouse.
b) The other states are too, for all I know, but I haven't driven through those for three uneventful hours.
** Me and LC who kindly gave me a lift.
*** That is to say, LC drove, and I watched.