Friday, 5 April 2013

I woke up quite early last night and had a lot of trouble getting back to sleep, mostly due to the small but persistent ache in my shoulder. As a result, I got up late but still had not really gotten enough sleep for the night.

I taught 4 units today: 9:00-10:30 and 10:30-12:00.

After the last class, David and I walked together down to the bakery to buy challah for Shabbat. We also bought a sort of twisted pastry-cake in a pan that look good (and it was!).

Next, we drove over to Il Pentolino for lunch.

Something is wrong with our car, probably the battery. Yesterday, when we came out after eating at Greg, the starter wouldn't turn the engine over at all. Luckily, there were some guys there with jumper cables, and they quickly hooked us up and got us started. This would NEVER have happened spontaneously like that in the States, I think! However, we knew that the problem would probably recur, and so we parked the car on Ein Gedi Street (the one from which we enter our parking lot) facing downhill. Sure enough, we had to roll-start it today but had no further trouble after that. At the restaurant, I also took care to park on the opposite side so that we could roll-start again, which we did. Obviously, we again parked it in the same place when we returned home. We won't drive it anymore, however, until we take it in to the mechanic on Sunday.

This afternoon, I finally finished work on my assignment for week 5 of my Intro to Music Production class. It was quite a bit more difficult this time because I had to actually record some music, pick some suitable reverb effects that would illustrate the class points, and figure out how to save it and then how to host it so that my fellow students assigned to assess it would be able to download and listen to it. But I solved the tech problems, wrote the necessary explanatory text, and turned in the whole thing this evening.

We lit candles, drank wine, and ate challah (singing the appropriate blessings, of course!) as usual to make Shabbat this evening. We also each ate a piece of the chocolate pastry-cake we had bought, I drank a glass of milk with a little Irish Creme Liqueur in it and David drank about half a shot glass of Sabra liqueur.