Pennsic looms

They only moved Pennsic one week earlier, but still, I keep having feelings of "wait, this weekend is land grab?!". I think it's because they crossed a month boundary. Pennsic is in August, darn it. :-)

If you're going and there's any chance I don't know where you camp, please leave me a comment with that information or any other location hints you'd like to offer. (I know some of you have nominal camps but actually live at the games tent, dance tent, etc.) Thanks. I'm camping with Polyhymnia, a sub-group of Debatable Lands, presumably in N10 as always and on the north side of the block (or, Cariadoc between Brewers and Chandlers). (Look for the little house on the flatbed.) I'll be there this Sunday for setup, will be arriving to stay next Friday, and will be leaving mid-day the following Friday.

work surprise

It turns out that one of my coworkers has an MA in religious studies, used to be reasonably proficient in biblical Hebrew (with some clues about Aramaic too), and is interested in using that knowledge. Who knew?

So we're going to see if we can figure out some way to structure a one-lunch-slot-a-week session doing...something. I'm thinking that we can't go wrong by starting with straight translation; I'll bring in printouts of some narrative passages from torah (or maybe Joshua, Samuel, or Kings, but I can easily print torah), and read together. Printouts (as opposed to books) are important so we can mark up the Hebrew text to mark roots, grammar thingies, and the like.

Whee!

(So why did this person not respond to the note on my wiki page saying (in Hebrew) "if you can read this please talk to me"? Because she, like I, does not know modern conversational Hebrew.)