Scott - Almost (finally) settling in

Well, Harlan, has it nice -- I haven't gotten to my own place yet, so haven't gotten to start playing computer games. And (don't worry guys, just one more sentence of geekiness), I checked out the system requirements for any halfway interesting game in the stores, and my computer, which was pretty high end in '03 has apparently become a dinosaur, incapable of playing anything more interesting than Freecell and Minesweeper. No, I'm not referring to my laptop (which, ironically, kicked it's last Windows breath as soon as I left Malawi!)

I'm with the "still unemployed" part of y'all, but have made a lot of significant advances in the past week. I left the fairly uncomfortable sofa-bed in my Mom's apartment, and hopped on a plane to Houston, and got here on Monday. A very nice friend from my temple (I refer to her as my Houston Jewish Mother -- she'd invite me to all her holiday celebrations while I was in Houston) has been kind enough to give me room in her house for a while, and loaned me a vehicle. So, I've finally become independent-ish! I went back to Houston Symphony Chorus, and have finally got to catch up with friends and such. In the next few days, I'll start boarding at another house, one in which I'll actually have my own totally private room. Then I can start in on those computer game thingies...

Some day soon, maybe, I'll look for a job. I'm looking for a very specific kind of job -- one appropriate to a rabbi-wannabe. A rabbi-wannabe who doesn't have any training to do anything a rabbi would do. And a job that won't mind if I drop everything in 5 months to go off to Israel...

Atah rotzeh cheeps em hazeh? <-- Mangled Hebrew for "You want fries with this?"

Great hearing from and about y'all. Congrats to those who are getting jobs and college acceptances!