Is It Still Monday?
I guess I didn't write yesterday, and I don't know that I have that much to say today. I'm feeling kind of random, and also very anxious lately. That's just the way it is, nothing I can do about it.
I've been very busy at school, and I'm going to get busier starting tomorrow, and that's all good. I have Thursday and Friday off for Rosh Hashonah, and I've got cars to get inspected and stuff like that. If I can make a decision one way or another, I'm going to get a new radio in my car. The CD player in the current one is very erratic; it plays home-burned disks but not purchased ones, which I've never heard of before. The radio reception is iffy, and there's the iPod thing, which I mentioned last time.
I went to Best Buy after school to look at either an iPod adapter or a new radio, and I confirmed what I really already knew: never buy such a thing at Best Buy, because the salesman in the Mobile Audio/Video department is whichever ignorant high school kid was posted there at the moment, and there are few devices which fit this car. I knew the thing about the fit because, of course, I had a Tracker before, and it was hard to get a CD player put into it. After I left BB, I decided there had to be a car stereo shop here in Bizarro Town, and dang if I didn't find one up the street from where I grew up. The guy was very very nice and not a moron, and he has a good, inexpensive radio on special this week, including installation and the adapter that will make it fit my car. All I have to do now is decide if I want to spend even more money than I just spent to buy the car. Hey, if I buy a lottery ticket tomorrow, maybe I can win enough to cover the $200.
Other than already having every moment of the school day scheduled tomorrow, I have a nail appointment after school and Back to School night tomorrow night. I totally hate the BTS night, but maybe the library's less-than-intuitive location in the school will help us out there, and no one will even know that we're open.
Rosh Hashonah, by the by, for those not in the know, if also known as the "Jewish New Year." This is a two-day holiday, which, along with Yom Kippur -- "The Day of Atonement" -- which follows a week from Saturday, comprise the "High Holy Days," aka, the most sacred holidays for observant Jews. If you live in an area like this one, your schools will be closed for these holidays, because if they stayed open, they would be empty, and you would never find enough substitutes to cover for the absent teachers. I always thought this was because we're part of the New York metropolitan area, but for all I know, all schools in New Jersey are closed. No idea how far this reaches. And now I really am rambling.
Perhaps no entry tomorrow, due to all the ... you know.
WATCHING FRIENDS :: ENTRY #1577
Back in the middle ages, i.e., when I went to school, the schools in Connecticut were open on the Jewish holidays. No one had a clue as to what they meant; the Catholic kids wanted to know why we couldn't just stop in at the synagogue before school, like a "day of holy obligation."
ReplyDeleteI was in high school before our town elected a Jewish man to the school board. My siblings and I never aspired to perfect attendance, because we knew before the year began that it couldn't be done.