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Posted on Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at 4:02 am
| sent in my ad to aleph. took me forever to figure out what I wanted to say. I'm not good at self-promotion. The graphic was more fun to do and I think it turned out pretty good.
I keep putting off contacting EC about the internship. I think it's because I know I'll just have a little time in Santa Cruz and I am there so rarely now that I don't want to miss anything. But I really want to do this as well.
The black t-shirts are finally available for sale. Apparently they will take a week or so to ship ("minimum 5 days") so I should put a note to that effect on the website. I also have to add some stuff to Yosef's Dreams since I am donating to Aleph. But...tomorrow. I haven't slept yet. |
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Aleph Gallery & Other Updates
Posted on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 9:36 pm
| Well, I finally heard back from Aleph. My application was approved. Funny how before I applied I had no doubt it'd be approved, then when I didn't hear back I started to assume I'd been rejected. So now I have to send in my image and ad text and they'll add me next time they update.
Also heard back from R'Eli about my letter...he answered my questions but I wish he'd gone into more depth in discussing it. Growl. Well, at some point I'm going to respond, and ask some of my other questions that wouldn't fit into the letter. Like, how do you know you're making the right decision? And he was at least not dismissive though I couldn't really figure out what his personal opinion was. He did encourage me to contact Aleph & R'Prager if I was interested in the Aleph program though. That was probably the most encouraging thing in the letter.
Signed up for the Nehirim retreat, too. I wish I really understood how this scholarship thing works. At least they contacted me by email, so I can write back that way without having to say "I cannot use phones." And I really should start thinking about what I want my workshop to be. I should start posting in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) one_in_a_minyan and/or trans_jews so at some point I can ask if anyone else is going, particularly any T* ppl, and what they'd like to see. I could also use some help with transjews.org. Which is going to be a sponsor of the Nehirim retreat. It's like everything is happening at once. Exciting. |
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the end of my procrastination
Posted on Wednesday, 9 November 2005 at 7:18 pm
| I have taken care of all of my responsibilities for the moment and now I don't know what to do.
No, strike that. I still "need" to write to Elat Chayyim about the summer internship. Maybe I should ask R'Eli or Batya--I think she did an ecointernship, not the regular one, though--first. See if they think it is something worth trying for. |
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I am sickened.
Posted on Wednesday, 9 November 2005 at 6:36 pm
| | By this post in autism. Last time I checked there were words for forcing yourself on someone. Not nice ones, either. Oh wait, I forgot, parents have the right to do any damn thing they please to their kids, don't they? Especially if said kid is autistic, because, you know, anything in the world can be justified if you're trying to "cure" or "treat" autism. Besides, we're just not human until we learn to act and talk like everyone else. That poor kid. I can't believe people are actually praising this person. No, wait. It's autism. I can. |
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sent in my inquiry
Posted on Tuesday, 8 November 2005 at 8:14 pm
| | about inclusion in Aleph's gallery. Now I have to reply to the woman who wrote about featuring my art on the cover of her magazine. Oy. *wonders why, after having websites for G-d knows how many years, he is allofasudden getting attention*. |
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eee.
Posted on Tuesday, 8 November 2005 at 5:48 pm
|  I know this isn't my shopblog, but I'm not linking to products...
Black shirts! I stayed up until 4am this morning partly because I had a few sections to add and thought the site would be back up by midnight. (Although, honestly, mostly because I drank a pot of coffee for dinner.) So, it's midnight here...2 am...4am I go to check the forums because the site's still not up. I'm thinking, this better be good, what, are they adding black shirts or something? See topics on the forum...BLACK SHIRTS...go to my account...black shirts! yes! I've gotten probably 1/5 of my designs converted to the format for black apparel. The autism ones will take a while; there's fifty of them and probably not all of them will "work" well on black. I did the Flaming Autistic one, because that one was really designed for black, but the rest I will take on a case by case basis. Now I have to wait a few weeks before they're available...oy...
and yeah. shopblog is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) queerspiritart. other shopblog is Eish Zarah at GJ. Thinking about starting one just for Autist Art at GJ (because I can do custom styles there for free.) Especially since I have a separate site for the autism stuff, and that's where most of my designs are added. Gah, I have too many blogs. I need to start writing in the EZ one, but that is supposed to be my Formal Literate Future-Rabbi Blog, and that site has already gotten noticed, so I'm kinda intimidated.
And damnit, why can't I add the "stimmy" mood icon? I KNOW I added one! Maybe you can't do custom moods even if you have your own icon set. |
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paid account again.
Posted on Sunday, 6 November 2005 at 12:10 am
| | yay more userpics! And fixed some of my links. Added Eish Zarah and deleted qs.net and qs art. Don't know what I'm going to do with those. Most of the content from qs.net has been moved to EZ, because it was mostly Jewish with some Fae stuff; I've already decided to make Winged Turtle my inclusive art site, so there's no need for QSA. Yet I just renewed qs.net and will probably renew QSArt when it comes up too. I don't know why. I just don't want to give them up, I guess. I should do something with qj.com as well, since I have it...trouble is I don't have much "specific" content for it. Which reminds me I should go back and add TransJews.org to my sidebar. Not that I've done much with it yet. I should ask around for more info or help. |
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Posted on Saturday, 5 November 2005 at 11:42 pm
| | I find it amusing that I started writing here again after my paid account expired. I may have to renew it. I want more userpics. Used to be you kept your extras after your account reverted but I guess now they delete all but 3. |
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finally got something done
Posted on Saturday, 5 November 2005 at 11:40 pm
| I finally got some things done that I'd been putting off. Answered the guy who wrote me last week. Looks like I will be going to the Nehirim retreat after all. I'm excited. I'll have to cover trans. costs myself but initially that doesn't look too bad. $630 for a ticket from HI to NY then NY to CA. I offered to teach a workshop as well, don't know what came over me but I'd definitely like to try. No harm in offering. I guess I will have to get writing again as well because I said I would submit something to his magazine. Oy. I'm not used to attention.
I finally composed an inquiry to Aleph about being included in their artists' gallery. Considering that I set up a separate Jewish art website just for that purpose months ago, it's about time. I'm not sure whether to send it before or after I increase my membership rates, though. But I'll probably send it tonight; if they tell me I need to increase before they can approve me, I'll do that.
Only one thing left on the list, and that's to contact Elat Chayyim for info about their summer internship. I don't know if I should email; the site says to contact the summer program office, but they don't give any contact info for the summer program office! I may email the regular addy and ask where to inquire; a couple of months ago I was going to send a letter but it seems a bit late now. |
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yay
Posted on Thursday, 3 November 2005 at 10:38 pm
| don't have to worry anymore--got a response. It's all good. :-)
damn--changed my moodicons so i don't have an icon for stimmy. Will have to change it back. |
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letter sent.
Posted on Thursday, 3 November 2005 at 8:56 pm
| I finally sent the letter to R' Eli about rabbinical school. I'm nervous about his response; I'm fairly sure he will say he doesn't think I'm qualified because I don't speak well. But who knows. I think I have heard of other AS (aspie mostly) rabbinical students. I don't think it is surprising or rare for someone who perseverates on Judaism to want to do this!
I sent him an email last night telling him I'd mailed the letter; he didn't respond. I don't want to send another asking why he didn't reply. I don't like when people do that to me. (Them: Hi, I sent an email 10 minutes/ an hour/ a few hours ago...why haven't you responded??!!! Me: um, I'm not online 24/7. If it's not an emergency, give me at least a day, okay?) He most likely didn't see any reason to reply as I just said "hey, letter's in the mail. Chodesh tov." But I STILL worry that I said something wrong, broke some social rule, that I didn't recognize. So now I am probably going to worry until he gets my letter. I never know if I'm interacting with people properly, or if I'm breaking rules. There are so damn many rules and they are all so different from person to person. And everyone just expects you to instinctively "know" what is wanted, so you get 'punished' for doing something wrong, and 'punished' for asking what you did wrong (because 'everyone knows' these things.)
I'm sure it's fine, though. |
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intros are hard
Posted on Sunday, 27 February 2005 at 3:20 am
| I just posted an intro on the asperger's community. very nervewracking...I'm somewhere between "you tell people about that stuff they'll think you're crazy! and "don't be stupid--there is nothing wrong with you."
Ugh.
I guess I should learn to start making entries here. I haven't felt like writing though. I think about things to write, but then I can't concentrate well enough to w r i t e them out.
Maybe tomorrow. It's almost 3:30; I really have to fix my sleep schedule. Going to bed at 6am and getting up at 9 simply will not work. |
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Posted on Friday, 14 January 2005 at 12:01 am
| | It's lonely here. Yes, I knew what I was getting into...but I don't think I really realized what it would mean if I got here and found there was no active Jewish community at all. I miss my chevre. I miss my community. |
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