Ha-nuk-kah or Cha-nu-kah n. Judaism. An eight-day festival beginning on the 25th day of Kislev (The third month of the year in the Jewish calendar), commemorating the victory in 165 B.C. of the Maccabees over Antiochus Epiphanes (c. 215-164 B.C.) and the rededication of the Temple at Jerusalem. Also called Feast of Dedication, Feast of Lights.

--From American Heritage Dictionary.

Zia, are you Jewish? Happy Hanukkah!

oh right not heard of it

I would like to wish a Happy Chanukah to all of my Jewish friends on this board! Enjoy!


Don Cardi

My calendar says it begins Thursday at sundown. Well one of our caldendar's has been wrong all year then!

Well back from vacation spent it with my two beatiful girls. sucks to be back at work but have to thank god i have a job. how is everyone doing any thing new?

No, I'm not Jewish, but thanks anyway.

Mine is right on... we're in 2002, right? Doh!!

I got most of my Xmas shopping done this morning - and it wasn't even online. Man I hate shopping so it's good to get this out of the way. I even bought a copy of The Big Issue (sold by homeless people) just because it had Al Pacino on the cover.

Two things have intrigued me in the advertisement section of the magazine. £15 for Sperm Donors. Yeah I could live on £300 a week. The other thing was £100 a day for being part of medical research.

I shouldn't have any money troubles this Christmas.

Hey, 5k posts Turi...well done!

4 finals down, 2 to go. I was a little worried about my test today b/c it was only over 2 chapters & the last chapter was like 40 pages long & took me about 3 or so hours to read yesterday and there was just a lot of information. This test seemed the easiest out of all of them! I think as long as you read everything, you did well. It wasn't that in depth or hard & that's what I was worried about! Now I wanna know what I made

Last night I finished my final piece for my first art course. A fifteen hour mammoth triptych which I've titled Three Studies for a Portrait of Torture. It's a lovely piece, possibly my most meaningful work to date (and also most obscure; after all, it was inspired by Francis Bacon!). I'm gonna have me a nice relaxing weekend now...

Mick

I'm dumping Jamie on Saturday.

Not me. I've gotta put myself through hell studying for my 1 & only comprehensive final on Monday and I can't make less than an 84 on it if I want to make an A in the class

Well I just talked to the chairperson of accounting here & she said I was stuck with my B in the class Now I've got another final in an hour & a half. After that, I've gotta study for that final on Monday and than I'm done for the semester! WOO HOO!

a B is not the end of the world

True, but when you work you a$$ off all semester to make straight A's, you kinda wanna finish it off that way. I'll be happy though as long as I make the honor roll, which I should!

DMC, Letz, and Mig: you all will appreciate this most.

Me and Jamie... are no more.

I signed my fat ass (well, belly, really ) up at a gym last Sunday and have been putting it off. I'm gonna force myself to go today!!

You sound like me. I have 2 Pilates DVD's, one stomach crunch dvd, and the Tae-Bo series. The only excercise they give me is when I move them to dust off my book case.

Too bad you guys don't live in Chicago... I'd be happy to give free taekwondo lessons.

I took TKD a few years ago and managed a blue belt. For some reason it didn't seem to help me lose weight, tho I guess I was firmer. (watch it! )

Great, now it's raining. Pouring! Ugh, why'd I sign up in the Winter?!?!

That sounds like very hard work. I'm tired just thinking about it. Send me a video. I'll get to it, I swear.

Ummmm....

Oh, alright...

What I would do would be a cardio-based taekwondo workout... you can call it Tae Ro!

Tae Ro

Hmm, maybe I should just start at getting out the door -- the hardest step!

I went!!

Now on to Part's routine...

It's the end of the world to me... I hear ya, Irish. That sucks. But it sounds like you're taking a lot of other classes, judging by the number of finals you've got... like 6 classes? So if you get A's in all the rest, the B shouldn't affect your GPA too much.


Woo hoo! You feelin' okay about it though? I don't wanna throw a parade on your rainstorm. But seriously, I think you're a lot better off. As fun as it is to have a boyfriend, it's just as fun (maybe more) to be single. There's a time for everything.

Yay!!

Now the trick is, you gotta keep going. Btw, the earlier in the morning you do it, the better you feel all day. Just a tip.

And rain?! Big deal, suck it up!! (Easy for me to say, huh?)

oh thats complete b.s.
going to the GYM

and

going to SEE JIM

is not the same thing

I think he was confused, Danger. Well, now he knows the difference!

Today's been a busy day for me. Yesterday I was kicking my dads head and my standing foot destroyed the floor board below me. If it wasn't the carpet I would have gone right through. Today was spent up clearing the room (main living room), uprooting the carpet and discovering wood worm (and of course fighting with the dog whenever possible).

This house is falling apart.

You weren't really kicking your dad's head, were you?

I didn't know they also had the money pits over in England. I have my own version here in Baltimore. Only I don't need to kick people's heads in to do it.

Probably should have explained that. Well that's my way of stretching before working on the bags. I wasn't really kicking him, just tapping him and it's my way of telling him to get the kettle on.