between rests

it's a silly hour to be going to bed, because i have to be up in five hours to blade 60km. i would've gone to sleep earlier, but i've just had a very important talk with my cousin, and i knew that if we cut it short it would be difficult to pick it up again.

that conversation came on the heels of an intense debate with her son's mother-in-law, a philosophy professor and a self-hating jew. we definitely don't see eye to eye, but we both enjoyed a good fight, and have agreed to continue it online :)

i'm very glad i made the bus to the kibbutz, and it's nice to finally have returned. an afternoon alternating between chatter and napping, pretty decent mess hall food, and fighting off a tick (the dog needs treatment, i guess) has been the order of the day. now to prepare for the serious stuff.