Why am I not sleeping right now?

Well, its 2:42 AM on a Sunday morning and I can't seem to fall asleep. This not being an uncommon occurrence in my life till now, I can't help but wonder why this time feels different. Life's been moving at such a rapid pace, I don't remember where the past 3 months went. Seems like only yesterday I was moving into my new place with Brett, and now we're talking about U-hauls and storage lockers for his inevitable move out of here. Does my sister really have two kids already? Is dad really retired? Where the hell did all this time go to?

For the past few days I've been really feeling empty for some reason. After a bit of contemplation I figured it all out. Every night I got to sleep and the last thought in my head is one of loneliness. See I had this great girlfriend. She was smart, funny, easygoing, and just an all around great person. But suddenly she decided that she wanted to be single. The problem is, I still haven’t figured out why. I was really starting to think that things were going right for the first time in awhile and then WHAM this hits me over the head.

It’s late and I’m gonna go try and get some sleep, just wanted to get these thoughts out and on paper (even if it is only metaphorical paper) before I did.

What a Week

So its been a crazy week. Gosh, I'd love to not start a post that way, but that is unfortunatly the way its been this past semester. So on the good side, my new nephew Samuel Asher Sommer is officially a member of the tribe. He's just as cute as his older brother David, and I expect he'll be just as smart. The trip to Chicago to see him, was amazingly helpful for my life. My brother-in-law and sister have great wisdom, and they were nice enough to impart some of it on me.

Today I broke the unfortunate news at work. They took it well, but it was still hard. Hopefully the transition will work out well for the kids, because that's who are really important in this situation. As the semester winds down and I prepare for exams and the semester to come, hopefully my new situation and outlook on my life will help me to breathe once and awhile.

I'm looking forward to my partial break from school and work. Even though its only Friday through Sunday, I'll get some much needed rest and relaxation.

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Well it was one wierd weekend. Wish I knew where to begin.

We'll start with Gopher Hockey. To begin: FUCK FOX 9! With that said, the game on Saturday night was dissappointing, dissappointing, dissappointing...FIGHT! The Gophers managed to come back from 1-3 deficit to win 4-3! It was exciting near the end, bad hockey leading up to it.

Today's the day I leave to go see my new nephew Samuel Asher Sommer. I'll hopefully have some pictures to post soon.

Work sucks a whole lot. There's too much to do for one part time worker. Its a wonder that they go through youth adviser's faster than any other congregation. This is a congregation which truly needs a Youth Director. Make no mistake, this is not a youth rabbi, but rather director of all youth programing. Someone to handle the administrative side and the larger projects which seem to plague this job. I understand they got burned doing this in the past, but obviously this system they have now is not working well either. TIME TO SHAKE IT UP FOLKS.

My picture, big wup wanna fight about it?

First Post

What a week it has been. Its hard to imagine how much has happened in just a few short days.

Where to begin and what to say about such a week.

I guess the first place to start is with Tuesday when my new newphew was born! Samuel Asher Sommer was born Tuesday November 8th 2005. I'm going home for the brit milah on Tuesday of next week. I'm incredibly excited to see both of my nephews. (If you were unaware being an aunt or uncle is the best job in the world.)

From the monumental occasion of Tuesday, the week spiraled downward. The fraternity had a very rough week, which I'd rather not go into in detail. Sufficed to say, the chapter consultant's visit on Thursday was not as fun as it should have been. Executive board met for over three hours to discuss the problems. Jeremy our consultant is great, he's really helped out a great deal despite the unfortunate incidents of this week.

Here it is Friday night and I'm posting to my newly created blog. Why you ask? I'm spending this weekend doing absolutly nothing except for homework and the hockey game.