now for the great "nothing"

it wasn't a bad day at all.

i woke up around 11am, got ready to move, and moved. i organized myself a very serious white hot chocolate, and began bussing through to afula. when i got there, i walked till i found really good fallafel, and munched that back to the bus station, where i boarded for the kibbutz. i got here, watched about half an hour of teen spanish / argentinian soap opera, then passed out.

i woke up in time to watch three o'clock high, which is actually a great film! i thoroughly enjoyed it: highly amusing, and extremely well-made.

i went off with the cousins for supper, which was pleasant and tasty, and have just returned with the ambition of doing sweet bugger-all for the rest of the evening.

moonflake: i found a pretty helpful guide to tefillin here - they may look dark-ages to you, but they pre-date christ by quite the while. as christ was an observant jew (at least, to the best of *my* knowledge), chances are pretty good that he wore them every morning. while we're on the subject, he was around during the time of the second temple; this means that in all likelihood, he regularly went there to sacrifice small animals.

the look is pretty much traditional - although the oral law is pretty specific about how they're made, i'm fairly certain that they could be modernized to a certain degree. on the other hand, i don't think anyone would actually bother - they've worked quite well until now.