Not as interesting as my last post, I'm sure.

Seeing all the comments on my last post, I felt I didn't need to post for a while =)

Last weekend was the Knoxville lindy exchange. I went last year, and had a great time, so of course wanted to return. I’d carpooled up with Shoe and Duane (read: Du anne) and was stuck in traffic for hours. We finally arrived at the dance, and after some confusion at the door that cost me an extra $15 over the original entry fee, I got in. The weekend was OK. I love dancing with new people, but the weekend had way more girls than guys (which we call “follow heavy”), so there were a fair number of dances that I didn’t get to dance to. I got to see and spend time with a few friends I hadn’t seen in a while, which was nice.

During the week, I went out with David G. one night for dinner to catch up, since we never seem to find time that our schedules are available. We went to a restaurant in midtown called Ecco that he wanted to try. It was pretty good, actually. Very hip and fun type of place with a long waiting list. Luckily, David had made reservations.

On Friday, we all had dinner at Randy’s, and met his new girlfriend. It was fun, but I was so tired from the week, I was falling asleep by about 11:00.

Saturday night, GT played Clemson, and though I had not only been invited to a few football game parties, but also offered tickets to the game, I instead went to Athens (on a gameday) to see my sister in a show. She was the first violin in the musical South Pacific. She did a great job, even though some of the actors left something to be desired.

Tuesday night I had to drive to Augusta after work. I had made plans weeks ago to have dinner at Sebastian’s, and so I wasn’t going to cancel it. We decided to do it early so I could get out of town on time. Unfortunately, that depended on my getting out of the office on time, which I didn’t, so it was a late night driving to Augusta. I spent a couple days there and came back late on Thursday.

My mom keeps telling me I should watch what I write in my blog. She doesn’t like that I keep a blog anyway, but I am pretty sure that for the most part, I am relatively careful not to say anything too bad about someone, or to get myself in trouble. I am not currently running for president, so I don’t think there are too many people out there trying to get my information to find skeletons in my closet. But even so, if you don’t want your name mentioned, or if there’s a previous post that I mention your name and you want it taken down, let me know. Her example for something I should watch out for is if I were to say something like “’John’ is the best looking guy I’ve ever dated!!” because that could insult a past boyfriend. I am not sure that is what I am going for.

Anyway, such an interesting life I lead, I am sure you guys couldn't wait to hear about it ;-)

Dumb Comment

I was at work today, and a couple coworkers were talking about buying car parts, and one of them was saying how the guy he bought from sent him the wrong year parts, so he was going to call him back and "Jew with him". I didn't hear what he said for a split second, but then I realized it, and just as I realized what he'd said, he realized what he'd said. He immediately started apologizing, but really - how accepting of that term should I be? He was raised in the sticks, and I have used the word "jip" me out of something - which I hear comes from "gypsy", but for one, I think it's more commonly used, and two, I've never actually met a gypsy. How should I have reacted? The more I think about it, the more aggrivated I am that the term is even in existance. What are your thoughts?

this week

On thursday, Hillel's GAP group had a happy hour at Front page news. It was a lot smaller than all the other ones I'd been to there, but that was OK. A few of us were sitting at a table, and a new person came and sat with us. I took a big bite of my sandwich, and just as I did, he asks "so, what do you do?" well, I was a little embarassed because I had so much of my sandwich in my mouth, I couldn't even respond, so I smiled and glanced away, embarrassed. He looks at me and said "what? are you a stripper or something??". I looked at him, shocked. "He says, well, I asked you what you do, and you got all embarrassed. I just figured..." I let him know that if I were a stripper, I probably wouldn't be embarassed about it, but whatever. I was still in shock that he asked me that.

Because I wasn't going to really be around my house for too many meals during Sukkot, we didn't build a sukkah here after much debating about it. We did however host shabbat dinner outside on Friday, and invited a couple friends and my parents, and Avital's dad was in town, so he came as well. It was a nice "quiet" shabbat =)

This past weekend, GT had a heart throbbing game against Maryland, which we ended up winning. Before the game, I was planning a tailgate for my co-workers. Betsy came with me to the grocery, and we got to campus almost 5 hours before gametime to start tailgating. People finally started arriving about 2 hours later haha, but it was a lot of fun. It was my first time ever hosting a tailgate.

Monday night I helped plan an event in the Shearith Israel sukkah. It was just dinner and socializing in the sukkah, but it was a ton of fun. Last year was the first 20/30 SI event, and this was the one year anniversary. At least 89 people were there. I was so excited. It is all people in their 20's and 30's, regardless of if they're single, dating, married, or with small kids. It is just an outlet for the young people to all meet. yay, I am glad it was a good event.

My birthday reading

Your Birthdate: October 4

You have an extraordinary character - moral, responsible, and disciplined. Your sincerely and honesty shine through in almost every situation. Driven and focused, you rarely let your emotions get the better of you. You're level headed and rational. People count on your to look at things objectively. Your strength: Your unwavering loyalty and ethics Your weakness: Your rock solid stubbornness Your power color: Navy blue Your power symbol: Shield Your power month: April

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Happy Birthday To Me!

Oh yeah,
Happy Birthday To Me today!!!

and I posted pictures to my website again.
www.belanaomi.com/photo

let's play catch-up

It's amazing how every day, when something funny/interesting happens, I think - hey, i should put that on my blog next time I post. The problem arises when I don't blog for 10 days, I don't remember a single one of those things.

I have been quite the social butterfly over the last couple weeks. I got meals with a few different friends who I haven't seen in a while, one of whom I haven't really caught up with since we graduated. It's nice seeing what people are up to now that they've joined the real world.

This weekend, Josh came to visit since I was having a b-day party, he figured it'd be a good excuse to come up and come to the party and have a chance to go to Turner Field - pursuing his quest of attending a game at every major league ballpark. It was nice to see him, and all the obstacles in my mind from 6 months ago came rushing back to the forefront of my mind. How is it that such a great guy has so many things in the way of being OK to date?

we got to go to dinner Friday, and then out for Leah A.'s b-day. Then saturday we went to DZ's to watch GT cream Virginia Tech. That was good, except for some of the ridiculous calls made by the refs in favor of VT. We could've had a bigger spread, but oh well. Then, Saturday night, I hosted a party in honor of my b-day (yes, I threw a b-day party for myself), and it was a ton of fun. The theme to this one was - uniforms. almost everyone got into it and came dressed up!

Then Sunday Josh and I went to the Braves game to fulfill his Turner Field requirement, and Josh decided to get some really good seats!! so we sat in the lower deck, right behind home. I think they were the best seats I'd ever had at a braves game. They come down there and take your order and then bring you food. rockin'!

Unfortunately, Josh had to go back to pensacola, and I had to go to the 'rents to begin Yom Kippur. I guess it's a good time for atonement. The fast went by really easily. I spent the afternoon at my parents' house with friends between the two shul services, and played scrabble.

This week, I have continued working down at the airport, and we are near finished with the project. Hopefully they'll enjoy our presentation next week, and they'll hire us again when tehy have another project. I liked this project a lot.

I hate posting these types of "catch you up" posts, but I feel like I owe it to you. Now that I'll be in the office more, I'll get home earlier and have more chances to compose entries, hopefully.