Happy New Year!

And to think that this time last year I wasn't even in the country!

Last year for New Year's I took a bus late Saturday night from Jerusalem up to Netaniya to meet my friend and her mother. Her mother is one of the nicest people on the planet and we had dinner and walked in the town square just people watching until it was close to midnight, and there were the coolest people there like this huge group of teens who were sitting in this huge circle just singing, and people doing incredible tricks on bikes, and people setting off little firework-type things and popping the corks out of champagne bottles. My friend's mother bought us drinks [relax, they were Breezers, it was nothing!] and we went back to the apartment to celebrate...good times! Here's to this coming year being just as amazing as the last one!

Life's Unanswered Questions [3]

What exactly are people looking for when they stare down into the tunnel while waiting for the train? What else could possibly be coming out of that tunnel? Is there something I'm missing out on here? Like, is there going to be a day when instead of a train coming out of there, an incredibly cool surprise transportation method is going to shock us all by coming out of that tunnel? So, yeah, I've never really understood that.

I Wish My Work Were Asexual So It Could Do Itself

Enough said...I can't wait until finals are finished! Then I can finally go and relax down in Florida! More later, when I'm less overworked.

Now, That Was Just Random

Last night I had an epiphany - both battery sizes and bra sizes are measured on a scale of A-D. I was trying to figure out the reason for this strange correlation, and then it hit me: they both turn things on. I know, very weak attempt at humor, but because I thought of that at literally 4 in the morning, it struck me as particularly funny.

Speaking of 4 in the morning, everone seemed to be online at that time. Why were we all not asleep? What were we doing awake? And why was it that none of my friends seemed to be even remotely sleepy? What was with us last night?

And can I ask what's up with the 1 train? Is it local, or express? Or only sometimes express? Or only at certain times? And if it's express, are they going to post that anywhere? How could they change it now, I had just gotten used to it!

In The Eye Of The Beholder

Last night at dinner with my friend K [yay!], we were talking about beauty. I had brought it up because I had been having the exact same conversation with another one of my friends because I had woken up a couple of days ago feeling like the ugliest person on the planet, and my friend told me not to be stupid [well, she's British, so obviously it came out a little more elegant than that]. But my question to K was this: what makes a person beautiful? I asked K to think of someone who most people agree is beautiful [NOT cute, pretty, hot - beautiful, just beautiful]; she came up with Catherine Zeta Jones, so I asked her: what does Catherine Zeta Jones have going for her that people say that she's beautiful? K said that she just has this aura about her, like the way she presents herself, and I said that that's not a quantifiable thing. That led me to the thought that perhaps beauty isn't quantifiable, maybe it just is the way one carries oneself. But it also has to do with a person's physical appearence, right? So what about a person's face makes them beautiful? We all have two eyes, a nose and a mouth. Is it the shape of the face? The size of the nose? The color of the eyes? What is it that defines beauty?