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[rymenhild]

From a number of people, most recently shirei_shibolim and debka_notion:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you with a spatula, either way.

I may be a better cook than I used to be, but I still lack shirei_shibolim's skill with a spatula. I promise not to come after you with a pencil of grading doom, either.

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[cryptoquip.livejournal.com]

I remember leading you in the Masochism Tango. :-)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

That was excellent.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

The magic stone carpet. Did you realize we're still wandering around in an alternate dimension? (Too bad even this dimension has our various towns located so far away from each other.)

Alternatively, I'm still very fond of the bench in Central Park upon which the exact location of the oracle was determined.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

It was an excellent bench, and a wonderful place to locate one's ass when one is pulling things out of it.

...Wait, that came out very, very wrong.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I had some difficulties with how I worded it, myself. I almost wrote something like, "...where we learned what part of your body carried the oracle".

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Hot chocolate, tfillin, and shooting stars. A bitterly cold November night out on a fire escape, and then shacharit with the sunrise.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

:)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You and shirei_shibolim started talking about how Isidore of Seville ought to be the patron saint of the Internet. It occurred to me, belatedly, that I clearly had the right group of friends, because who else would talk about Isidore of Seville on a fire escape at 4 AM?

[gramarye1971]

Tag-team AIM conversations and RP-ing on my laptop, accompanied by bowls of gradually melting ice cream.

*grins all over the place, and uses appropriate icon*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

It doesn't get any better than that, even in a ninety-degree apartment in a scary London summer.

By the way, I love the whole CD you sent, but I've been listening to "Abraham" on constant repeat for the last two days.

[gramarye1971]

Y'know, that song seems to get stuck on repeat on my copy of the CD as well. Probably because it's one of the few songs I've ever heard that references Canadian history and does it well.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Seeing you in Usdan cafeteria for the first time since you'd returned from England. Having trouble recognizing you at first — headwear was a real tipoff — and then asking fleurdelis28 whether you'd gotten taller.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was the hair? :)

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I think it's that you were standing up straight. :P

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Meeting you on fan_the_vote and recognizing you from your userinfo.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

That was pretty funny. :)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Since we'e only met twice in person, and at one of those, you were busily bridesmaid-ing, I'll have to record watching/listening to your line by line translation of one of the aliyot on SImchat Torah into Old Icelandic, and thinking how much fun that must be.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Twice, of course! I apologize. I didn't do the translation, by the way, I found it on the web.

Should any other place take on the same geeky custom, I'd do the translation myself next time.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

You've acquired Old Icelandic since then?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no. I could do Old English!

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's a Bible out there in Law French. Simchat Torah is just screaming for a rendition of Moses's blessings in the language that produced sentences like "Il jete la brickbat through la fenetre." And ideally, with a British accent.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the part about how the brickbat "naroly mist."

I wish.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I think naroly mist was the weather we had here yesterday.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I'm continuing to vaguely regret not having been involved in Conservative Egal.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Well, said minyan has since dumped that geeky custom, to my disappointment, in the interest of getting out of shul before time for ma'ariv. Oh well... S

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

The end of that was supposed to be "somewhere, someday".

[goblinmouse.livejournal.com]

tea shop. harvard square. only time I've ever met you. Solomon, Claire, you and me, drinking tea, trying to stay warm and out of the way at a table under a staircase that didn't seem to actually lead anywhere. and talking about dragons, and renaissance art and generally nerding out.

oh and expect a question about medieval nuns from me at some point soon. I need a point in the direction of some research. But more on that later. I need to formulate the question properly.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Nerding out is very good.

I'll be glad to be of service as far as medieval nuns go, but I should say I know much more about nuns in England than nuns anywhere else.

[genarti]

"Hey, um. How would you feel about having a Bran at Milliways?"

*grins*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Famous first words, those, preludes to over a year of great procrastination and great fun.

[flintknappy.livejournal.com]

Ah let's see... the first time we met in person hanging out on your deck with carrot stick charcoal as a successful writing implement- or why big kids should not be allowed to play with fire either, the strange vegetarian chinese place with ineffective spoons, Lord of the Rings 3 (were you awake the whole time?), the futile field trip to the Fordham library to return a large stack of books, adventures in inflating air mattresses (with your mom), the somewhat un-anatomically correct heart at the Franklin Institute, 'I'm going to go visit the chamber of commerce', utilizing the pacific time zone to your advantage at night on aim, and of course, shavuot at Rachel's with the bed of sin.
(Any other good ones you can think of?)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Nothing matches the sheer transgressive perfection of the bed of sin.

[flintknappy.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I think that definitely may be the funniest one ever. Rachel's reaction only made it even better. :)