Cerebro is happy and healthy again, which basically means that I'm happy and healthy too -- or at least I will be, after I go on my ergonomic shopping spree this afternoon and pick up a chair to replace this wooden kitchenesque thing I've been using for the past month.
Since it was Rosh Hashanah yesterday and I got the day off (which tells you something about the power of demographics -- did anybody even know when Rosh Hashanah WAS in Vancouver?), I went for a walk around Battery Park City at the southern end of Manhattan. It looks surprisingly like Yaletown. Green grass, glass condos, broad concrete and deceptively polluted water. What I'm not mentioning is that it's an awesome change from the skyscrapers, to be able to see water on three sides and picturesque New Jersey (ha!).
So I've been picking up the finer points of Jewish culture over the past little while, in much the same way I tried to pick up a few insights into Christianity while at UBC; this is a remarkably kosher town. I don't think you can even buy a non-kosher hotdog in this city, which I suppose isn't all bad considering what I hear about what they put into them. It kind of makes me wonder why we didn't celebrate Muslim or Hindu holidays in BC, but I suppose taking a month off for Ramadan just doesn't work well with the current school system.
I'm thinking about finding a law firm sponsor to get free coffee and tea at the law school, because it seems silly that we don't even get 12-cent coffees when we're paying enough tuition to buy a house if we just picked up and ran away with our student loans. There's been widespread support in my section, but maybe they're just being polite. Heck, if I was Wachtell and already had the firm's name on our law school cafe, why not shell out the extra $5000 and get your name on the coffee cups littering the campus too?
Since it was Rosh Hashanah yesterday and I got the day off (which tells you something about the power of demographics -- did anybody even know when Rosh Hashanah WAS in Vancouver?), I went for a walk around Battery Park City at the southern end of Manhattan. It looks surprisingly like Yaletown. Green grass, glass condos, broad concrete and deceptively polluted water. What I'm not mentioning is that it's an awesome change from the skyscrapers, to be able to see water on three sides and picturesque New Jersey (ha!).
So I've been picking up the finer points of Jewish culture over the past little while, in much the same way I tried to pick up a few insights into Christianity while at UBC; this is a remarkably kosher town. I don't think you can even buy a non-kosher hotdog in this city, which I suppose isn't all bad considering what I hear about what they put into them. It kind of makes me wonder why we didn't celebrate Muslim or Hindu holidays in BC, but I suppose taking a month off for Ramadan just doesn't work well with the current school system.
I'm thinking about finding a law firm sponsor to get free coffee and tea at the law school, because it seems silly that we don't even get 12-cent coffees when we're paying enough tuition to buy a house if we just picked up and ran away with our student loans. There's been widespread support in my section, but maybe they're just being polite. Heck, if I was Wachtell and already had the firm's name on our law school cafe, why not shell out the extra $5000 and get your name on the coffee cups littering the campus too?
