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[hatam_soferet]

Fun and games today: the sewer had backed up into the shul, so we couldn't work in the allocated classroom (in the basement) on account of the carpeting being saturated with Nasty Ick. It smelled BAD, even with the basement door closed. So we worked upstairs in the conference room, on very deep, soft chairs, which tilted backwards alarmingly at inopportune moments. We were fixing lettering on a dinky wee Torah; my favourite part of the day was the bit where we were trying to decide how the three of us could work on it most efficiently, and the answer involved cutting the Torah in half. How often do you get to do that?! Slicesliceslice, and it became a Torah in Two Parts. We'll sew it back together when we're done.

I microwaved a quill to try & harden it (I hadn't brought any alum-boiled quills, and I wanted a hard quill), but I put it in for a minute, and it melted. Moral: a minute is too long for microwaving quills.