yesterday

Yesterday I had my interview with Drisha (www.drisha.org). They liked me. They're going to give me a nice stipend. So that was good.

At Pardes, someone asked me if they could commission me to write them a Megilla, so that was good, too.

Then someone else - well, Haviva Ner-David, actually, who's sort of famous as an Orthodox feminist - asked me if I'd teach her and her daughter, which was scary, but on the whole, good.

earthquake

There was an earthquake today!

It was scary. But exciting.

Aparently on the other side of the room CD (from San Fransisco) said "Are we having an earthquake?" and J said "Naaaaah"...

and nearer me, G (from Seattle) said "Did you hear that?" before diving under the table...

then there was a boom, and many people thought there had been a bomb in our building...

and then the floor rippled, and the room waved around, like being in a bouncy castle, or as if the room was made of cloth and being bent about. And we bounced up and down and rocked about for a while, and it made my tummy feel shaky like when your car goes over a bump. I was on one side of the room and I saw people on the other side of the room going up and down relative to me. Pardes is on top of a high building, so it was amplified. It was a very, very strange feeling. The earth is simply not supposed to behave like that.