"I have been but little in," said Ninian hastily...

Apologies to all my LJ friends for not reading, commenting, or posting much myself of late. Things are going swimmingly with The Teacher, and life is busy in other arenas, so I've had very little spare time. I'm hoping I will have a little time this weekend to catch up with all the other things I've been neglecting, including posting about books I've finished recently (including a negative review of a Barbara Tuchman book, words I thought I'd never say), notes on recent gaming and research, some thoughts about future plans, and much happy burbling about The Teacher, including an account of our trip to Philadelphia, her first meeting with my family in New Jersey, and our joint and rather high-speed effort to make a Passover dinner for some of my friends (which came out, all things considered, rather well).

More, as they say, later.

I've participated in a number of seders since I converted to Judaism, including some I hosted for very forbearing friends (since I was doing all the cooking and explaining the Haggaddah to people, we didn't usually eat until 10 or so. :-) But it's fun to have a crowd, as I found when a coworker invited me to her family's seder a few years ago. And I discovered tonight it's even more fun to have a *big* crowd. UUCSS had a seder in the worship space--tables, chairs, everyone bringing something to contribute to the meal, the minister (who had one Jewish parent and one Catholic) starting us off and leading us through the tricky bits, and everyone going around the room and reading part. Wine, karpas, matzah, maror, charoset. Singing, laughing, !exciting! things for little kids and little kids to be excited by it. A very community-building event, and a good way to celebrate and commemorate important principles, whatever the 'truth' about the history behind it all.

And several hours of Saturday night to relax before facing all the dishes from my cooking (I brought a Moroccan potato-egg-onion-veggie casserole) plus the ones from earlier in the week. Sufficient unto the next day the dishes thereof...

[Also had a nice game with Bryan int he afternoon, which Peter dropped in on. More about that tomorrow in The Recoiling Knight.

Gud yontif!