looks like that email-a-blog thing worked after all.
how about that.

This another test blog entry...

"this is a test of my new email-a-blog-entry.
If this works, I'll eat my hat..."

That was the quote from my last
test-of-my-new-email-a-blog-entry-email...
and it pretty much stands for this test of my new email-a-blog-entry. I
don't think I'll be rushing out for any hat-seasoning anytime soon.

This is a test blog

this is a test of my new email-a-blog-entry.
If this works, I'll eat my hat...

Oh, and the footage from the other day looks simply splendid. Thanks for asking.

So I went for a hike the other week in the vast and rocky forest that lies at the top of Mt. Carmel. It took me about 3 seconds into the hike before I started to dream of fat-tired bicycles, running along, jumping over rocks and holding my hands out in front of me like I was holding onto handlebars. Good thing I don't ride motorcycles or I would have been making vroom-vroom noises as well.
So anyway, for the past week I've been scheming and plotting and planning how I can get myself a bike to bring back to Haifa when I return. Mostly that involves cruising the net and trying not to drool on my fancy docu-film-maker film-making equipment while trying to pretend that I am engaged in serious work. right.
So I give you....in all its glory....tum-ta-tum-ta-ta-tum: my new bike.
Oh, and after gazing longingly at my new bike, I decided to try and get some actual work done and my computer crashed, eating up a bunch of my video. gee, great, thanks a bunch computer. perhaps that's just a sign I need to go home...
even if it's not, that's how I'm taking it. goodnight.

Day in the glamorous life of docu-film-maker in Israel (Part 3):
5:50pm: find this before heading back up the mountain for camera baby-sitting duty. marvel in utter speechless wonderment at the monumental stupidity.

Day in the glamorous life of docu-film-maker in Israel (part 2):
1pm: relieve the co-worker.
1pm-1:15pm: vainly attempt to read something spiritual and meaningful. Give up when you start falling asleep.
1:15pm-3:30pm: Read something else. Be sure to hide your book whenever anyone walks past because you don't want people to think that glamorous docu-film-makers read such trash.
3:30pm: congratulations, you now have a sun burn.

Day in the glamorous life of docu-film-maker in Israel:
3am: alarm goes off. Since you've only been asleep for 2 hours, you assume the alarm is for someone else. You go back to sleep.
3:15am: In your sleepy stupor, you realize that you live alone, there is no one else. You get up.
3:45am: You carry all of your video gear halfway up a mountain, in the dark, to set up your camera. The camera will stay there for the next 18 hours, recording a few frames every minute, so that you can compress an entire day, ultimately, into just a few seconds. Whatever you do, don't move the camera.
4am: Your co-worker goes back to bed. She'll be back in five hours to relieve you.
5:30am: It's very cold.
5:31am: When you get up to walk around a little so that you don't catch pnemonia, don't let the Jackal that's sneaking up behind you scare you to death.
5:32am: look very carefully to make sure that the Jackal that is sneaking up behind you isn't, in fact, part of a pack of Jackals. When you realize it isn't, give the not-so-scary-anymore Jackal a dismissive wave of your hand and watch him run away.
5:55am: Watch the impressive sunrise.
6am - 9am: try your best not to fall asleep and fall off your chair while waiting for the sun to defrost your chilled limbs.
9am: your co-worker comes to relieve you so you can go and have some breakfast.
10:30am:After a hearty breakfast of tea and baklava go downstairs and blog about your day, even though it's not even half over. begin to dread 1pm when you'll have to go and relieve your co-worker.