The response from the Jewish community here has been overwhelming. I haven’t even had a chance to contact all the people who replied to the listserv, and I already came home to almost 30 emails- mostly who heard about me through one person I spoke to last night. It’s making me think a lot more about possibly trying to move to Squirrel Hill… it’s much easier in terms of transportation there, but it’s also more community-oriented, and a safe part of town. We’ll see…. have a while til I can worry about that.

Got the car- some slight complications because I have a MD license, not PA. Hopefully taking care of that tomorrow. But I love the car. It’s silly, isn’t it, how we want to celebrate something that’s already a special occurrence? My celebration was eating a real dinner instead of just soup I can’t tell you how happy I was to finally find Morningstar products at the supermarket! So I guess that’s kind of a double celebration :-p

Bagel shop was okay today. I was very tired and wasn’t working with the friendlier coworkers today.

Very tired now as well- will try to post a more detailed/pleasureable update tomorrow.

PS- Two people have already offered to set me up on shidduchs. I politely responded that my life is a bit too in-flux at the moment for that, but thanked them and promised to keep it in mind.