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( Feb. 27th, 2006 09:52 pm)
This morning was wicked cold, so much so that when someone dropped her coffee on the platform this morning, it had turned into a streak of iced coffee by the time her train had pulled out. In this kind of weather I read accounts of Antarctic explorations; those chaps went around without scarves in negative Farenheit and complained that it was too hot when the temperature approached freezing-point.* I survived the walk to Sinai Free by tying my coat collar up around my ears using my scarf (ahah!), and hung over the heater in the studio thawing before starting work. Fraid I'll never be a polar explorer.

Work: more lettering this poor flaky Torah. Exodus had several columns which were nothing but flakes (a healthy high-fibre way to start the day, no?), and they took about an hour apiece to fix. Only Genesis left to do, though, and it's not quite as bad as Exodus. The scroll didn't like the heater, it started to complain and curl up at the edges. Tough cookies, I was freezing without the heater, so I kept it flat by viciously rolling it up.

Thence to teaching: my grown-up student is coming along nicely. She mentioned that she would like to read at her son's bar mitzvah, but didn't think she could do a whole aliyah. She showed me the shortest aliyah, and insisted that it was beyond her, so I made her go through it, and she discovered that actually she probably could do it after all. I get rather a lot of pleasure when my students grow wings like that. Worth staying late for.

Home - to carpets! in all directions!

* South - Shackleton's abortive expedition to cross the Antarctic, which turned into a camping-trip on ice floes, pitching tents on the ice and going about in minimal amounts of clothing. Yet to come is the incredible bit where they all get home safely.
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