Talia's Journal

10:31am: aw
I just was watching the Tzippy Rivky Zahava videos on youtube and you guys are adorable. Definitely much more fun than actually doing my work...

11:50pm: skype
So, I finally actually downloaded skype and I realized this is awesome and I don't know why I never downloaded it before. So I want to talk to you Israel people eventually so yay...

12:10am: Les Miz
So I accidentally bought tickets not realizing that I am actually busy that night. So if anyone is interested in Les Miz tickets or Thursday August 2nd (next Thursday night) for $46 each let me know. There is one person I e-mailed that will get first dibs, otherwise, second dibs go to fastest responder on this. I guess the next stop will be Teaneck shuls...

6:50pm: another one

Haiku2 for tdc311
yourself believe i am coming to israel hi everyone
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:-)

5:48pm: haiku
did it a bunch of times but this is clearly the best :-)

Haiku2 for tdc311
with the money i'm not making because i'm paying to be in israel
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:-) yay israel!

11:39pm: as if this is a surprise at all :-)

11:27pm: I'm going to Israel!!!
To all who are/will be in Israel end of Dec/beg. of January:

I am coming to Israel!!! I will be in Israel from December 27th until January 9th.

I will also be in London from January 9th until January 14th visiting a friend and touring London, because I have never been there. That's not really relevant to you all, but whatever.

So I want to see you all, yay!

2:19pm: Shana tova u'metukah to everybody! Especially to people in Israel who I won't be seeing anytime soon (and I apologize for my lack of calling anyone in Israel, I meant to but than I disappeared my phone and overslept this morning). Have a happy sweet new year and a ketiva u'chatima tova.

6:10pm: hmmm
I just discovered that apparently from my house even though I've been logging in, I haven't been seeing peoples' friends' only entries!

And I was wondering why there had been so few posts recently...

12:12pm: oops!
So, I apologize for all the (what apparently turned out to be) lies that I would comment on people's stuff on Thursday night, things got businer than I expected. :-(

But I'm almost done with finals now! Yay!!!

12:14am: Countries I've been to:



create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

States I've been to:



create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

I counted layovers in airports in countries but not states. I guess that's a little unfair, but I did fly SwissAir and was in Zurich airport for a bit, so I'm counting that. But not the time i spent in Chicago's airport. Because so there!

3:45pm: Wow, I just realized that that was the first time I've posted since August... thats crazy...

3:43pm:

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	6.2
Mind:	5.9
Body:	5.2
Spirit:	7.1
Friends/Family:	4.1
Love:	7.7
Finance:	6.2
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

Funny how I pretty much would have predicted at least the order of the outcomes of this quiz... or maybe my answered were biased towards what I would predict about myself... :-)

2:52pm: calming down
OMG, i just had like the biggest panic attack ever. imagine you call your airline the morning before a flight and you tell them your name and stuff and then they tell you - what are you talking about, you dont have a flight. !!!! scariest thing ever!!! apparently somehow my flight accidently got canceled... ! but thank g-d after about 45 minutes of crying and panicing and calling swiss, my parents, and david frantically, they called me back and let me know that everything is okay and i have my flight at 5:30 tomorrow morning just as i thought i was supposed to. !!!!!!!!!!! so everything is okay now, looks like i'm coming home - my flight is supposed to arrive 12:40 at JFK... so i'll be seeing some of you guys (the ones in america) soon :-).

Talia

3:02pm:

You scored as Luna Lovegood. You're an extreme introvert and because of this, are also a deep thinker. You ponder things others would never dream of pondering and stand with your beliefs without backing down. You find it more valuable to daydream than to socialize, because there's so much more going on in your head than others'. Most people don't understand it, but you seem to prefer it that way. </td> Luna Lovegood 72% Remus Lupin 63% Sirius Black 59% Neville Longbottom 59% Bellatrix Lestrange 59% Albus Dumbledore 53% Ron Weasley 50% Severus Snape 47% Harry Potter 44% Oliver Wood 41% Percy Weasley 41% Hermione Granger 41% Draco Malfoy 28% Lord Voldemort 22% Harry Potter Character Combatibility Test created with QuizFarm.com

2:53pm: weird
you know whats weird... starting 2.5 weeks from now (when NYU orientation starts), I'm going to start having to say that I was in israel for the year 2 years ago, not last year.

thats kind of scary. :-( (when did we get old? and since when the year in israel that long ago?)

12:23pm: Countdowns
I feel like the whole world has just become a giant countdowning clock. Everything seems to be counting down. The 3 weeks and the 9 days counting down to tisha b'av, the country counting down to disengagement, me counting down until i go home, me counting down until school starts. I feel like this week i'm just sitting and waiting. Looking at the week ahead of me and waiting for it to happen. i guess kind of a calm before the storm. I am ready for next week to come in some sense. mostly because I'm really ready to go home, but also because I'm tired of waiting, I'm ready to move on, to not have something i'm counting down towards, to be back to enjoying life where i am, not looking foward to something else. i guess thats in terms of me going home, but somehow it works for disengagement too, in a slightly different sense - i'm anxious for whats going to happen to this country in the next few weeks, but somehow I'm just tired of waiting. its going to happen, and i just want to know if everything is going to be okay. i hope the country will come out in one piece (both in terms of domestic strife and threats of terror), but I'm very scared that it wont. I don't know whats going to happen, and I really don't know what to think. I'm neither comfortably for or against it, I just don't know. I'm just scared and there doesn't seem to be a right thing to do. i'm going this afternoon to the prayer rally at the kotel - this pretty much being my first "political" activity with regard to disengagement (i refuse to wear any ribbon, even both, or anything) in israel since i got here and declared myself apolitical (an ironic statemment for a polisci major working in a political think-tank for the summer). and as much as i know that the rally is 98% political, thats not the part i'm going for. I'm going for the 2% of genuine prayer - my prayer not that "the evil decree will be overturned" as some people might say it (how are you so sure that the decree is evil?) but my prayer that whatever happens be the best thing that could happen for israel, and that whatever happens, we come out safe from terror and united on the other side. and yes, that prayer is different from the prayer the rally is called for (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=87399). but still I feel i must go and make my prayer. i'm no longer worried about making a statement i dont want to make, although probably just by being there I'm making a statement I don't want to make. Now i just need to make my statement, even if i'm the only one hearing it.

I'm ready for this all to be over. I'm ready for it to be next week already. I want to go home. And I just need to know if everything is going to be okay here.

but meanwhile, I can just count down and wait.

9:35am: anyone else think its kind of insane that a girl I know got engaged last week and is getting married on August 22nd? !!!!!!

I dont know if I can go b/c it is probably far... but thats crazy!

8:55am: abby and susie when are you coming to israel?

10:36am: Hi everyone! Just a short little update on my life.

I'm currently staying in Tzippy's apartment. I am starting my internship at the Shalem Center on Monday morning and I'm moving into the Yavneh Olami dorms on Thursday. I'm going to random people in Alon Shvut with Tzippy (she knows them from going there last year and David knows them but I don't), so yay.

Harova has been really good and I really learned a lot in the past few weeks, mostly on my own, and some from shiurim. But learning on my own was what I really wanted and I think I'm improving in this regard. Now it's just a matter of keeping that going well when I'm not in a midrasha enviroment. Luckily I have recruited David to hit me over the head sometimes :-).

I'm really excited for my internship, after a long long period of not being sure what I was doing. But now I have to do 430 pages of reading that everyone had 4 weeks to do in five days. But I'll manage.

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer lots!!! I miss you all and I wish I could call you but it will cost me a heck of a lot of money and my phone bill is already going to be bad and I have to pay for it myself (with the money i'm not making because I'm paying to be in israel... lol). but I'll see you all soon!!!

3:10pm: I just feel like saying hi and letting you all know I'm alive. So hi, i'm alive!! yay!! i know you all feel so much better now... :-) so i'll move on.

I have been in israel for almost two weeks now but somehow it feels much much longer. I've been living the simple life and its been really really pleasant... for a few weeks all i have to do is midrasha, and there are so few people that I know and need to see in the country and plenty of time to see them so i've been just really really enjoying and appreciating everything and everyone in a de-stressed fashion (unlike my december trip where it was crazy crazy CRAZY for a large number of reasons). but its nice to have the opportunity to relax and learn a lot and really enjoy myself. and spend quality time with people, and with myself as well. however, i officially despise politics and every political discussion is getting me more and more upset here, which is great considering the internships i'm looking for are in the political realm of things. right now, all the people who actually belong at midreshet harova are at this huge thing where sharon is apparently speaking, but as bogrot me and karen are not invited and therefore we are just taking over the beit midrash (and the computer room naturally). its interesting being sort of shana bet but sort of not... were always so confused about what the heck we are supposed to be doing. i spent one shabbos at tzippys apartment and the second shabbos at my friend aleeza who is doing sheirut leumi. david wants me to come to alon shvut this shabbos except for that i dont know anyone there i feel comfortable going to by myself and right now i dont have any girls to come with me... so this is annoying. i have plenty of places to go elsewhere... very frustrating. internship stuff is stressing me out b/c i maybe have two places except i have no definite confirmation from either one so maybe i have no places and i have no idea whats going on and i really hate that, but since there isn't really anyithing i can do about it right now until they call me back i'm just trying to relax and be happy. at the end of next week i'm going to be siyumming mishnayot seder moed and i'm really excited :-). then its on to zeraim i go...

i really feel like i have a lot to say but i dont think i'm making sense, and i have a lot what to do... so i will go... but i miss you guys! and rivky!!!! i'm soooo jealous of you right now b/c you're going to be getting midreshet harova's brand new big beautiful beit midrash... i need to at least come see it... :-P

cya soon!

3:46pm: Yay for only one final left :-)!

2:07pm: I have no clue how to lj-cut things so i apologize.

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:	Talia
Birthday:	March 11th 1985
Birthplace:	New York
Current Location:	New Jersey
Eye Color:	brown
Hair Color:	brown
Height:	5'4+
Right Handed or Left Handed:	right handed
Your Heritage:	genetically - irish, german, sweedish, some dutch, some other random western european stuff. psychologically - eastern european jewish :-)
The Shoes You Wore Today:	i wore sneakers briefly when i drove my brother to sportsworld
Your Weakness:	sometimes i'm too nice at a personal cost
Your Fears:	not being true to myself
Your Perfect Pizza:	more crusty and cheesy, less saucy. i really liked ramis in israel for this.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	well i'm planning on finishing mishnayot moed in mid-June, it would be cool to finish zeraim as well by the end of teh year, but thats a little bit pushing it. i also want a 4.0 this semester but i dont think its happening. and having fun and gettign through school enxt semester...
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	it depends who i'm talking to
Thoughts First Waking Up:	Do I have to get up? Yes i do, darn. when can i go back to sleep?
Your Best Physical Feature:	i like my hair, its great for my lazy dont want to do anything with my hair personality
Your Bedtime:	i wish i actually kept to one. i try to go to bed before 1, but i fail at this often for some reason.
Your Most Missed Memory:	i have great israel memories
Pepsi or Coke:	coke
MacDonalds or Burger King:	eh
Single or Group Dates:	single definitely
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	neither
Chocolate or Vanilla:	i like vanilla ice cream better
Cappuccino or Coffee:	neither
Do you Smoke:	no
Do you Swear:	very very rarely
Do you Sing:	yes, a lot, sometimes without meaning to which is a bit of a problem...
Do you Shower Daily:	not everyday but most days
Have you Been in Love:	do you think i am going to answer this question?
Do you want to go to College:	nah... who needs college anyway?
Do you want to get Married:	someday :-)
Do you belive in yourself:	i believe i am a figment of my own imagination.
Do you get Motion Sickness:	not really
Do you think you are Attractive:	I think that I am attractive to some people.
Are you a Health Freak:	no
Do you get along with your Parents:	most of the time
Do you like Thunderstorms:	i dont particularly like them, but i dont hate them
Do you play an Instrument:	does my voice count? i'm taking voice lessons next semester probably
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	yeah 6 cups!!! (I'M SUCH a seder alcoholic... except wait... it was 5%)
In the past month have you Smoked:	no
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	flonase? amoxicilin? oh yeah and lsd.
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	yup
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	a whole box?
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	no i dont like it
In the past month have you been on Stage:	i might have been on a stage, but probably not performing anything
In the past month have you been Dumped:	no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	yeah, i go every day in the hudson river... what the heck?
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	not that i can think of
Ever been Drunk:	maybe a teeny bit tipsy at the seder, but not even that really
Ever been called a Tease:	Talia you're such a tease! yeah, now I have.
Ever been Beaten up:	no one would dare
Ever Shoplifted:	no
How do you want to Die:	I dont. I want to live forever.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	I dont know, but I want to do something that i enjoy and that is meaningful.
What country would you most like to Visit:	I was going to say Israel, but I realized I don't actually want to visit Israel, I want to live in ISrael, so I dont think it counts. So for visiting - I dont know, I'd like to visit England adn Ireland someday... England is preetty cool, and i definitely need to see my Irish heritage.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:	I'm not picky
Favourite Hair Color:	I'm not picky
Short or Long Hair:	ha ha definitely short.
Height:	taller than me
Weight:	I dont know
Best Clothing Style:	I dont really care.
Number of Drugs I have taken:	263
Number of CDs I own:	i dunno, not that many
Number of Piercings:	2, one in each ear
Number of Tattoos:	7374
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	A few major things, a couple of other minor things.
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

11:52pm: I HATE BEING SICK!!!! :-(

4:46pm: SHABBAT SHALOM EVERYONE! :-)

I love how I never post anymore except to say that. Bad me.

But in case anyone is wondering, things are going pretty well in Talia-world. I guess that probably has something to do with why I haven't been posting.

But I do still read my friends pages :-).

Mwah. Talk to you later, have a good one!