I've spent the last week at United Hebrew in St Louis, MO, writing Torah in the library there. A lot of interesting things happened during the week, and while they were happening I made mental notes to write about them here, but now I come to do it, I'm at a bit of a loss.

Well, I shall start with the trivial, and we'll see where it takes us. First up: hotel beds. workspaceWill you look at this? We're lucky I didn't get lost in there. Honestly, that kind of excess makes me a bit nervous - what do I need with all that? I know that's just how hotels are, but still. That's my stuffed piggie in the middle there, by the way.

Next up: the cartoon band-aids. Sharp knives are an essential scribal tool, for sharpening quills and the like. I generally have mine handy on the windowsill next to my desk, except when I'm on location, as it were, and don't have a windowsill. Ooh, I was so smart, I blu-tacked the scalpel to the desk to have it nice and handy. Except I put it right by the inkwell, didn't I, pointing upwards, and I managed to slice my finger open on it, didn't I, and there was an awful lot of blood, but none of it got on the Torah, yay me.

The cantor was having a conversion class right nearby, and I rather bust that up - sorry, guys - having your scribe-in-residence stagger dizzily around the place bleeding and retching really makes it hard to study. Oops, my bad. And so the nice UH people and me spent the whole afternoon finding a place that would a) stitch it up b) take my insurance c) not take all day about it. Now I have stitches. I've never had stitches before. I can't go swimming until they come out, poop.

But I was back in time to learn with the fourth-graders, who were quite quite super. Let's have a separate post about the fourth-graders.
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