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Sunday Morning

I have three songs in my iTunes titled "Sunday Morning" (Ani Difranco, Maroon 5, No Doubt). Two of them (Ani and Maroon 5) were stuck in my head today, as I had multiple conversations about what Sundays meant to different people.

Some of the cons of Sundays, I have found:
Universal homework day. You realize how much more work you have to do.
Last day of the weekend--school is coming up again, and fast.
Cleaning up/sorting out stupid things you may have done the previous two nights.

Pros of Sundays:
Football. Or so I've been told.
PostSecret goes up for the new week.
Big, fat crossword puzzles you need your friends' help to solve.
Sunday nights can be some of the most relaxing, if you can get your stuff done.

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"Sunday morning, slow beats seething, through the screens in the open windows
Eggs frying, legs shaking, after we stayed lying so long in bed
Sunday morning, both of us reading, and looking up occasionally
Looking up occasionally

Sunday morning, you're doing your thing and I am doing mine
Speaking words, more a formality, cuz we can feel we are of one mind
Sunday morning, sheets still warm, kitties swarming around our feet
Life comes easy, your sweet company, making it so complete

Of all the Monday through Fridays we joined the crusade
Of all the Saturday nights in which we were made
Of all the exorcisms I've done with your ghosts
Still it's Sunday morning--I miss you the most"
--Sunday Morning, Ani Difranco

We hold these truths to be self evident...

...that all men are created equal.

Oh, man...

This is freaky: "A new study has found that one in four children thought it was illegal for women and minorities to hold the office of President"

Never

This is so important to me:

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace."

--Peggy Tabor Millin

What a Difference a Day Makes

This morning I was at school, now I am at camp.

It's so weird being here without so many people I love. (Jordan, Matan, Alana, Gilad, Lili, Emily, Evan, etc to name a few). I don't like that part of it at all. I started crying during services today, just overwhelmed with the emotions and stress of this past week, with the emotions of being back up at camp, and with the heavy, heavy weight of the absence of the people I love from this place.

I felt weird coming back to camp for Fall Camp last year, too. I remember, I felt alienated and uncomfortable and just generally like a homesick camper. I wanted to go home, and just counted my way through the hours until I was able to go back to school. (I miss the person who got me through the weirdness of that weekend, I really, really do. But I don't know how to get back to him, or even if I should. Either way, things have changed. It wouldn't, couldn't, the the same).

This, again, is my first time back after the summer, but this time is different. It is compounded by the loss of the people who made this past summer one of the best I have ever had at camp, and also by this overwhelming notion that I am in a very, very different place from where I was this time a year ago. A lot of things have changed, yes, but some good things have also stayed the same. I still appriciate this place and everything it has done for me. (I told RS last night that this place had shaped me and made me who I was more than any school ever had. He was impressed, maybe surprised, but I meant it.) I still thank the people who have made this place what it is for me, who have given me so much out of it.

But I wonder sometimes, whether all these weird feelings are there to tell me that it is time to move on. Maybe this was my last summer, maybe this is my last Fall Camp, but then again, maybe it's not. I know that no summer would be truly complete without camp, and that is has been a huge part of my life for so long, so I am in no way ready to make the choice about whether things are coming to an end or not, but I do know that I can safely say that they are changing. And that, though incredibly scary, might just be a good thing.

Sleep!

I just realized that there is no point in me going to bed late tonight! (The past nights bedtime has been ranging between 2-4 am. Blech!). I'm getting enough sleep, because my classes are pretty late, but why not get more?? :-) SO, tonight I am going to take a shower, answer a question for one of my midterms, watch an episode of The West Wing and be in bed by 1. Yay!

Waterfall

Thanks to Well That's Strange, again, for this crazy, awesome video.

Whoooaaaaah!

You have to check this out. Craziest video ever. Props to my dad for the link.

Interesting...veeerrrrry interesting....

I just read this incredibly interesting article about Jews and their DNA that my dad sent me. If you have a second/any interest in genetic history, Jewish studies, or Biology, you should really check this out.