inbetween times

Well I have now made contact with the nice people who run the MA.ed that I am interested in the opening emails have been really quite friendly so I have re-written my CV and I have sent that in asking for an informal per-intereveiw type thing. I have also been doing some research on the web-(what did we do before research was so easy?)-and given the moduels on offer and the great teachers it is looking like a better and better option.

Not that I have given up on my other plans not by a long way I am in the midst of prepartions for my interviews which are coming up. As mentioned in earlier blogs. Three long days of different types of interviews but I am detrimed to make a better job of them than I did last time around. So it will be nice just to have a proper plan B.

But with all that going on I haven't had anytime really to make head way with my studies of the Mei Hashiloach. But I am starting to get a grip on the major outlines of his thought and Torah. I am also reading as a rather tangental part of my PhD research an anthopological study of the lives of Hasidic girls. (The topic is about as far away from my own as it is possible to be but within Jewish studies but some of the methods are much the same.)

It is a very interesting book and it is eye-opening how much the Tanya (a work of Lubavitch philosophy) is intergrated into their day-to-day life. It is called 'Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers' and is worth a read.