Wow this weather is crazy! It started snowing on my way to work around 1145AM. It is still snowing as of 745M. I dread driving in this mess, but hopefully in another hour most everyone else will be home and I can drive slowly and carefully over the river and through the woods.

The week is strangely dragging and flying by at the same time. I have a hard time believing it is Thursday when it seems like yesterday we celebrated the Chinese New Year in Wicker Park. I even got myself all gussied up in a fine blouse and made it into the official pics thanks to drunken photo-taking. This party used to take place in Minneapolis so I thought it only appropriate to share my fave news story of the week regarding the Mall of America. Shark on shark cannibalism that didn't really look like the little fellow was very alive.
As many of you might have guessed, I love and fear sharks at the same time. I am fascinated by them and yet live in constant fear of meeting my doom a la Captain Quint. My favorite movie is not some girly love fest, but in fact "Jaws." I think I either watched this movie too many times as a youngster or my run in with a school of fish while body boarding in my teens. Either way I don't want to end up like little Shark 54 there!

I am also participating in this three weekend long activity at the synagogue with the Sisterhood where we are making prayer shawls. These are called tallit or tallis to anyone unfamiliar with them. Most of the time it is only men that wear these shawls. Since we go to an egalitarian synagogue the wome ncan make pretty things to wear too! I am the youngest one in the group by maybe 15 years. I am the only one with no children. My fingernails were painted the same color as one of the 13 year olds at the luncheon last week. She did not accept me in the teenager group either. This is an interesting site about tallit if you are curious. I really dig the fact that on a site about tallit there is a big add for single muslim dot com.

I had a weird dream that I was on some European tour that involved a large bus and lots of sleep overs in hostels. Also tagging along was this guy: Mathieu Amalric If you saw Munich you might remember him and now he's the new James Bond villian, how will I ever be able to choose between good and evil??? Too sexy, too sexy. Just leave it to me to have dreams about semi-obscure French actors. (he's not obscure in France of course, but in the US a little less well-known). Now I need to find a way to get downtown to see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.