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Done with Donne
Posted Dec 31, 2006
This is it.
After procrastinating my big final paper for over a year(!), and after discovering a few details I overlooked at almost the very last moment and having to work frantically to write them in - it has finally been printed, bound and turned in this morning. 
10 John Donne poems, 25 different translations to compare (altogether - ranging from 2 to 4 different translations to each poem, since I only compared translations when there was something to compare to, of course), 51 pages of writing, and I think even more than that in the appendix (photocopies of every Donne translation I could get my hands on), and 4 books returned to the library. 
Quite a weight off my shoulders, even literally.
But it's over. I still need to pay for that extra year I got on it, but it is over.
And since this was the last assignment of my first degree, that means I am officially Donne------err, I mean done------with my BA obligations. Woohoo!!! 
What a great day. What a very very wonderful day.
Other updates (after all I haven't really been around for a long time, and quite a lot had happened) will follow sometime later. Lots of backlog to clear, right now (after all I haven't really been around for a long time, and quite a lot had happened)...
Later!
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Pictures, and some other random stuff
Posted Oct 11, 2006
Hello!
As usual nowadays, I'm just dropping by here, but had some updates to supply to whoever still reads this (/lurks/stumbles upon/etc.)...
First of all, as suggested by the title, Dan and I finally finished compiling and organising all the pictures of my trip - you can find them here: http://public.fotki.com/LadyPennywhistle/august-september_2006/ It has random weird signs! It has horrendously kitchy Cute Couple Pictures! It has raccoons! Go have a look!!!
(And leave me comments, too. I love comments. They make me feel important. 
)
As for Life, the Universe and Everything, most of the time I'm still struggling with my paper (but I'm making good progress; I _will_ have it done soon). But yesterday I went to Tel Aviv to see Neil Gaiman at the ICon festival. That was cool (and I got this, too: http://public.fotki.com/LadyPennywhistle/random_pics/1212194.html). He's a really nice and funny person, and the whole place was just crazy. Exactly what I'd expect a 
-con to be. And I met a very good friend of mine that I haven't seen in ages, despite the fact Tel Aviv is not that far away from Jerusalem... we have resolved to meet more often, in the future.
Coming up, the schoolyear at Uni starts on the 22nd, and I'm pretty much looking up for it. Translations Studies is something I wanted to do since I first enrolled in university, and most of the courses I have seem very interesting.
Then on the 29th there's the International Poetry Festival here in Jerusalem (http://www.mishkenot.org.il/programs.php?id=208& ), which I am also looking forward to.
And that's what I am up to, pretty much.
Well, off I go again...
Later!
s
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Update
Posted Aug 25, 2006
So, haven't been around much for a while... been busy with work, and schoolwork, mainly. Got one big paper left, and then I'll have my first degree. 
But that's not the big news. The big news, in case you managed to miss me being very very excited about it, and having a countdown in my tagline and all, is that I'm going to be with Dan, soon. 
I'll be leaving the house in about an hour and a half, to start on about 36 hours of journey (including a really long layover in Vancouver, which I will be spending with my friend Kate - camp friends can be such a useful thing! ), at the end of which, I will be with the man I love. 
So, yeah, won't be around much for the next three weeks or so. I'll probably drop by to say hello, but to be honest, I'll have other priorities... *shrug* Way it goes. See you all around mid-September!
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Where did time go?
Posted Jul 6, 2006
One year ago (give or take some hours), I woke up in the morning and read the best email I ever got. The one that said 'I love you, too'.
And things have never been the same.
[Yes, this journal entry is pure kitsch. Sorry about that.]
Been one hell of a year, really. But in a good way.
Back then, I still had no idea if I'll ever even get to meet Dan - or rather, when. But in February he came here, which was the greatest time I ever had, and in August I'll be going there, which will probably be even better. Simply because it keeps getting better, all the time.
I miss him every second we are not together - which is most of the time - but I wouldn't change that for anything. It's worth it.
One year down, the rest of our lives to go...
It'll be alright.
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Atonement
Posted Jun 20, 2006
(I think only a few of the people subscribed to this journal will know what I'm talking about, but these people are important enough for me to post this. So I am.)
In Jewish tradition, on Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement – you fast and pray, in order for your sins to be forgiven. But that only takes care of the business you have with God; if you have sinned against your fellow man, you need to go and ask for forgiveness in person. And not just 'Hey, sorry, see ya' – you need to actually mean it.
But some people aren't willing to accept an apology, no matter how honest it is. They have been hurt too badly, and are too resentful, and there is nothing you can do to change that.
It's not wrong, it's just human nature. Some people cannot forgive some sins.
But the Halacha (Jewish law) realises that this is unfair for the person who is trying to atone... why should you go to hell, if you truly regret what you have done, and want to make up for it?
So you get three tries. If you have asked the people you've wronged for forgiveness, truthfully and unreservedly, not just to get off the hook, and they still refuse to accept it, the sin is off you, because you've tried. If they refuse to believe you, even though you were being honest, it's not your fault, anymore.
...
Maybe if I were observant, I could find consolation in this.
As it is, I still feel bad.
*sigh*
I just don't know what to do, anymore.
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