Geography strikes back

I had to say goodbye to ploni_bat_ploni last night. We had a very fun evening in company with her mother, and PbP gave me the leftovers from her storecupboard as well as some very cool presents that she doesn't have room to pack. I didn't cry.

Thing is, it's a good thing that PbP is leaving Sweden, cos she's off to do fun things like get married and then start her rabbinical training on the other side of the world. And we have many weapons of telecommunication to defeat the evil geography.

Mainly, I'm glad I had the chance to get to know PbP over the course of this academic year.

xkcd, eat your heart out!

You all know how gnimmel wins the internets, right? Well, now she wins even more!

I am speechless with admiration. Seriously, if you follow only one link this month, that second post of hers should be it. It's the distilled essence of brilliant blogging, in colourful cartoon form.

I have had a crush on Gnimmel's brain since I met her at a party in 99, and listened to her off-the-cuff exposition of Kabbalah (which beat most rabbis I've heard on the subject hands down) and why Adam Kadmon doesn't map onto a manifestation of a god in a Pagan, polytheistic context.

I was going to post about other stuff but Gnimmel's brilliance has dazzled it out of my brain.