End of the World

I was going to make mushroom soup, but the mushrooms went bad. So I just ended up with boiled potatoes. Black bear sightings in my town, a tornado in Springfield...and me not enjoying the job-searching process. at all. bleh. My primary motivation for getting my butt to Harvard Sq. yesterday (to apply and go through a preliminary interview) was that I was meeting up with Kostya. Otherwise I might not have gone.
Yosef and I made challah, my grandmother says that my aunt has a better recipe, which I believe, since she made challah for sabbath for years (now their neighbors make them challah...maybe I'll get that recipe) But our mixer broke, it started smoking, so we need a new one.
Shimon got a bike (present from our parents and Ilya, our uncle.) Maybe we can start raising the back wheels soon, him and his primary colors :)
Opened a (late) tennis season with my dad a couple days ago, and then we went for a three hour walk in the woods with all of the family and some family friends (in the humidity, in the heat...) And then we went to a sushi place (nom nom nom.)
The day before that we went around the Weston Reservoir. So much poison ivy. I have some, naturally-I've gotten it every year since I was two.