i mean i don’t think wikipedia made me all knowing but considering i guess i gave the people on my zoom call (that invited me to christmases) the impression that i didn’t even know the date of christmas i’m up from there

he always wanted to come back to lviv but never got to bc he died in the 70s. but earmarked his reparations money for a scholarship for the university here about the intersection of ukrainian and jewish literature which was set up in the 90s or 00s and has gone to some very very cool smart people!!

my grandfather was the only survivor of the holocaust in his entire family. he had never left lviv (was in janowska concentration camp) until he was sent to israel to live on a kibbutz in caesarea when they couldn’t find any family to reunite him with and the orgs didn’t know what to do w a child…

yay 🍒

or cherries!

tbd really on if that last one is ornaments or giant red currants but we’re choosing to believe red currants for our own inclusivity sake

haha i know right i’ve already heard it like 7 times

tomorrows plans = said hillel chanukah party (lol) and look at christmas decorations yippee

there are exactly 3 christmas songs i can stand which are carol of the bells, the one that says merry little christmas, and the john lennon one. also i guess i have a soft spot for the muppets and john denver christmas cd but let’s not talk about that.

alas at the end of this 36 hours of travel i’m going to eat a jar of pickled mushrooms and then sleep for like 48 hours straight

have never ever hated school like i hated it this semester and was so stretched thin and mistreated by the practicum i raged out in the war crimes research office which is very unlike me! but never regret standing up for yourself blah blah blah

what should for my four hours in warsaw that’s the real question….

yippee but also i’m wearing slippers basically so i think it kind of cancels out