Back in the Saddle Again

So I'm really trying to work. Two things - well maybe three - seem to make this quite difficult.

1. Ephraim. Since he is really a full-time job, his needs sometimes make it impossible to work. Today, for example, he wanted to eat the entire morning. While I like to accommodate his desires, I only have three breasts (oops. um, one of those looks suspiciously like a bottle with formula.) Moreover, he seems never to get full.

2. The topics. I love my employer. Really, she's endlessly patient with me, always has work for me, and allows me to make money while I'm home with Ephraim. I really don't like writing about gambling. I'd love to write about skydiving, base jumping, nutrition, medicine, dentistry, the mating habits of the fruit fly that carries tomato yellow leaf curl virus*, anything except gambling. Well, okay, maybe not anything, but almost anything.

3. Working in a restaurant causes a number of interesting distractions, like the guy behind me who was explaining to a potential client about the history of the Indian Jews known as Bnei Yisrael. Which of course got me thinking about Dropped from Heaven: Stories and wondering how Sophie is doing with her writing. Which got me googling and blogging. You see? I could work at home, but that would require things like getting my own drinks and ignoring the piles of dishes and laundry... Life is rough.


* If you google my maiden name and the term "tomato yellow leaf curl virus," well, it's not me... but I did spend a day or two in the lab watching the research be done.

The moral of this post - If you have work for me that isn't gambling related, I can give receipts in Israel, so please contact me.

At Work... Well...

So this whole week Yaakov's been working with a group of people from around the world, and things have been seriously hectic. He's been getting home at about 10:30 and collapsing...

So today I came to his work and had dinner with him. I also ran a whole series of errands in Jerusalem, which was good, because some of them have been on hold for a while.

So now I'm at his office, waiting for him to finish up so we can head home...

There's a little bit of news. The yaakov-and-leah site is gone... I wasn't editing it and doing stuff with it, so I decided to let it go rather than pay to keep it alive when it isn't really accomplishing anything.

My parents are now tour operators for an all-kosher/shomer Shabbat trip to China. For more information, you can write to DrSavta at Gmail dot com. The tours are available in Hebrew and English, and include 3 kosher meals a day. The tours leave from Israel, but if you're not in Israel, you can make arrangements to meet the group in China. My parents have taken the tour once, and co-guided once, and they've really enjoyed it immensely.

I'm in need of work. I write content for websites, translate from Hebrew to English (but not the other way), and edit English text.

If you have work for me, leave me your email in a comment, and I'll write you back. Since I moderate my comments, you don't need to worry about your address being posted for spammers. If you need receipts, let me know. I haven't gotten receipts yet, b/c I'm not getting enough work to justify it, but I could probably arrange it within a few days if necessary.

so that's the news...
t.c.