Dearie me, I have been a grumpy old git the last few posts. Anyone would think I despair for the fate of humanity...
In an effort to be more up-beat, let's catch you up with stuff what I 'ave been up to (stuff up to which I have been?). Errrrrm after spending most of this degree attempting to ignore the fact that I have nine 6,000-ish-word seminar papers to research and write, I went crazy in May and cracked two of them out. Now today I drew up a bibliography and wrote half the first chapter of another. It's quite terrifying what you can do when you realise the end is nigh.
What else? Twas Shavuot, better know to you as the Festival of Cheese about a fortnight ago, for which we visited the Italian deli a few streets over, purchased some lovely Italian cheeses and cured meats to enjoy with some tasty tasty wine, which all together was quite divine.
On the 15th of June I will be trekking off to Misrad HaPanim (that's Interior Ministry to you 'orrible lot, or Office of the Face if you looked it up in the dictionary word for word) with the wonderful boyfriend in order to get a pretty little piece of paper allowing me to work in Israel (note that the UK has the same thing for the gays, isn't the modern world fun?). This will involve interviews, expensive pieces of paper saying I'm not married, a police statement saying I'm not a criminal, letters from friends and family attesting our relationship, photos and mobile phone bills for the same reason, birth certificates, passports, ooh and I have to sign a thing saying I've never committed a crime against the Jewish people, which is actually quite cute. So wish us luck.
Tonight I'm off to La Perla in Florentine, where my friend Andrea works, to enjoy some fine company, decent wine, and the 2 for 1 special you get if you're on her little list. Le'Chaim!
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