moving day

im finally moving to tel aviv, finding an apt took about as long as my draft process... but i got a bed today and ill move the rest of my stuff tom. those of you familiar my past living situations will not be disappointed by my new diggs. ill post a couple pictures tomorrow and give you the rest of the details. 

im getting drafted in 2 weeks... time flies when ur doing mostly nothing and a rotating cast of your favorite people come to visit you. 

i thought id make this blog interactive, do any of you have thoughts on when i should shave my head? now? or in 2 weeks? todd is my usual barber, but with gas prices going up i just cant afford to fly him in every time i need someone to take half an hour to shave my head with the cheapest most ineffective electric shaver known to man. exhibit A is the current state of affairs. i should clarify that the bulge in my cheek is not an abnormally large gumball but rather the result of having 2 wisdom teeth violently extracted from the clutches of my jaws. As for the tea bag hanging from my mouth, well, somethings you just don't want to know... trust me, its for your own good. 

Exhibit A

wisdom

getting your wisdom teeth pulled sucks. dont do it. wait for a car accident, a bar fight, or a skating accident to knock them out for you, its probably less painful that way, and it comes with a much better story. im recovering from my second round of extractions, i feel less wise already... 

visitors

ive been doing a pretty shitty job at keeping up with this blog, and things will probably only get worse once im in the army, but on the bright side im guessing my posts will be much more interesting, so theres that to look forward to.

 im having a lot of visitors this month. todd was just here, we went to eilat and petra the day after i found out i didnt make it into the paratroopers. it was a nice distraction. We went to petra on an organized trip that included me, todd, a nice canadian girl that was volunteering with an organization called rabbis for human rights, and two japanese semi-conductor engineers wearing indiana jones style hats. We had a funny jordanian guide who seemed to know every single person in petra. Even though we have peace with Jordan i still felt like a stowaway on a pirate ship, there was definitely a novelty to it, and now i have a jordanian stamp in my israeli passport, so thats exciting. 

my sister got into town last week, shes staying for most of june, and a few more people are coming to visit this month so between them and selling ice cream ill have my hands full till my draft date. i think i might have to quit my job soon to make time for everyone. 

in other news, i may have found a place to live in tel aviv, dont want to jinx it so ill fill you in when the details are settled. 

i guess lastly, my draft date is set for july 6th and its not going to change anymore. the army is retarded so their drafting me on a special date for recent immigrants to the country, even though i speak hebrew and i lived here for 6 years, hah. so basically my draft date is 3 weeks earlier than the normal combat draft, i get to improve my hebrew (90% of the people in this course are russian so i think the only thing i will be improving is my ability to curse in russian, blat) and learn some zionist history. on the upside, i hear people in this course get priority for picking their placement in the army, so perhaps something good will come out of it after all. 

anyways, its 2 3o in the morning and i should be sleeping so im gonna get to that. 

happy birthday katia