So, good news? I got my blood tested today. Done. Still need to wait for the results/send it to the army center/blahblahblah, but at least Step One is done.

Bad news? Terrorist attack. Luckily for us, it didn’t go so well for the terrorist and he only managed to lightly wound two people before getting shot, but it was a terror attack nonetheless.

Having been in the Jerusalem area for the last two bulldozer rampages, I’m already pretty wary of bulldozers, and when I walk by the construction on Jaffo I feel really uneasy being surrounded by bulldozers. So…great.

I was actually really surprised by how non-chalant the newsreaders were. A couple minutes were devoted to the attack, and then they moved on rather quickly in my opinion. I understand other more important things happened today that need to be discussed, and I understand that (thank G-d!) no one died, so it’s not as serious as it was the first time, but still….
DUDE, BULLDOZER. RAMMING THINGS IT SHOULDN’T BE RAMMING. KIND OF A BIG DEAL.

Have we already become so jaded that things like construction equipment thrice being turned on civilians are no longer a big deal?


Tonight I started to head out of my apartment to go for a walk, maybe to the Old City, but as I was leaving I could hear the mosques blasting their crazy techno beat (okay, so it wasn’t a crazy techno beat, but wouldn’t that be cool?*), and suddenly I just felt so uncomfortable and decided to hold off on taking a walk until tomorrow morning in the daylight hours.


*My friend once told a story of how his cousin or uncle or someone snuck into a mosque one night with a bunch of friends and then during the next call to prayer instead of talking about how great G-d is, the minaret loudspeakers blasted a recording of the Nachman mantra…..don’t know if the story is true, but wouldn’t that be awesome if it were?

You know what I’m going to do when I’m a millionaire? I’m going to build a house that looks like a mosque with a minaret, and every day at prescribed times I’m going to blast techno for a couple minutes. And when I run out of techno I’ll play 80’s hits like “St Elmo’s Fire” or maybe I’ll blast ABBA hits, or the YMCA.