HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY MISS warlordkittens!!!!!
You are a rare and precious kitty and I hope this year brings you joy and peace.

thanks to Mel this is the first time I have laughed about this war. I hate to call it a war because that has a connotation of two equal sides, but I do not know what else to call it.

The situation here is a nightmare. Missiles flying all over the place, killing people on both sides of the border, but mostly on the other side of the border.  Not for lack of motivation on the other side of the border to kill, just our weapons are so much better.

I am in a state of total depression at the moment because of the situation.  I think that war is not the solution, but I am not in the consensus. Most Israelis believe that we had no choice after 8 years of missiles being fired at civilian targets in the South of Israel, even after we pulled out of Gaza. I simply can not condone the violence,  two wrongs do not make a right in my book.  War is bad. Period. 

Last night I took part in a protest against the war and even my brother, who considers himself a leftist, gave me hell on a facebook message for taking part.

Today, I spent all day in the courthouse bailing a friend out of jail after she was arrested for a protest Friday. she and a group of 20 others laid down in the street at the entrance to the army base from where the planes take off to bomb Gaza. They were not being violent and even left one lane open so it was more of a symbolic protest but still they arrested them and did not arraign them til two days later.  my friend is the gentlest woman I have ever met and the thought of her in a cold cell just kills me.  The prosecutor asked to have them remanded to custody till the trial, but luckily the judge saw how ridiculous that is.

I am just exhausted.

God I can not believe it. It is the 21st century and we are back to the trope of the murderous/suicidal tragic lesbian! This is just horrible!
It is a video clip where two young women are out on a road trip.  One tries to kiss the other, who spurns her advances, so the evil lesbian crashes the car into a truck and kills the both of them. The straight woman is Shiri Maymon, an Israeli pop star from our Idol show.  For those of you who want to witness the horror for yourselves the link is here.  Go to the very bottom of the page, it is the last clip, and press the play button.
http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,695,209,25166,.aspx

I have been listening to this song on a loop. Give it a try.  Meir Banai.
https://www.yousendit.com/download/TTdFb24xT01CSnJIRGc9PQ

I will be speaking next monday, 23/6 at 10:00 if anyone local wants to come. Here is the abstract of my lecture:
דבי כהן, החוג לאנגלית ולימודים אמריקניים
Turning the Literary Love Triangle on Its Side
In the chapter "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" in Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Sedgwick proposes that in the erotic triangle the erotic rivalry is the bond that links the two rivals is as intense and potent as the bond that links either of the rivals to the love object. "The bond between the rivals is even a stronger a determinant of their actions than anything in the bond between anything in the bond between either of the lovers and the beloved." (Between Men 21) In my paper I explore love triangles in which a man and a woman are competing for the affections of a woman, specifically The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. According to Sedgwick's theory of love triangles, Gerty's competition with Lily for the love of Selden is in fact a way of expressing her love for Lily herself, turning the triangle on its side and making the true apex of the triangle Lily herself. Reading the scene book through the lense of Sedgewick's love triangle we can understand that Gerty's true object of affection is Lily Bart.

Hope to see you there!

>Happy Birthday warlordkittens!!

I have been keeping myself very busy seeing friends and working. I do not feel that debilitating pain I was feeling before, it is just that all the joy has been sapped out of my life. I go, I do, but I just do not feel excited about anything.

The hardest part of paper writing for me is getting the inspiration/idea.  The second hardest is getting started.  I think I have the idea and now I must get started.  About my paper for anyone who cares:
Recently a never published manuscript was discovered of a novel by Julia Ward Howe, the 19th century poet best known for The Battle Cry of the Republic.  Despite the fact that my field of interest is mid to late 19th century and turn of the century women writers, I would normally not be caught touching a writer who positioned herself seemingly squarely in the middle of the hegemony.  The key word here is seemingly.  The book I am working on is a novel whose protagonist is a hermaphrodite.  For obvious reasons she never tried to get it published, did not even show it to her husband.  The question that interests me is why she chose to write from the point of view of a hermaphrodite.  I am starting from Plato's Symposium (the origin of love myth for you Hedwig and The Angry Inch fans) and see where that leads me.
Ok...I will now get up and start...Yes, any minute now I will get up...and go start...working on the paper. 

I have a paper that was from last semester that I really REALLY need to write. The working title is "The Lack of Lack in Virginia Woolf's Kew Gardens". This paper is eating my soul *cries*
Go on, make me write.

As is true with much good humor, this is both funny and sad at the same time.

I will be returning my last batch of tests this Thursday.  Since I have long forgotten what people do in their free time, I need your advice.

What should I do after I return the tests?

when my idea of a break is pulling the hair on my legs out by the roots...

*headesk*

They hunt down and decimate roaches.

Dear local folks,

This tiny kitty is named Shimi (because here eyes look suspiciously like those of Shimi Tavori). I found her all by her self a few weeks ago shivering in the garden.  She is an extremely sweet kitten who loves people and other cats. 
At present she is at my house but since I have two cats and three bunnies I really do not have room for another cat, therefore, I am looking for someone else to give her a home.  Could you please pass this post around to as many people as you can in the hope of finding someone to take her.

The tests of doom induced depression is setting in.  I feel it like a black cloud surrounding me.  Fear has its grip on my heart.