There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year

[sovay]

It is the first night of Hanukkah.

I move out of my apartment tomorrow.

I feel like the Babylonian Exile.

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[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, a lot of us feel that way sometimes...

Nostrum est interim mentem erigere
et totis patriam votis appetere
et ad Iherusalem a Babylonia
post longa regredi tandem exilia.

Apologies for the Abelard--it's what popped into my head.
Hanukkah's insanely late this year...

[sovay]

Hanukkah's insanely late this year...

There have been a couple of years when it overlaps with Christmas. That's always a little odd.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yowsa.
stranger than the times when, as osirisbrisbane puts it, you're eating leftover turkey with your latkes.

[sovay]

you're eating leftover turkey with your latkes.

When festivals collide . . .

[kraada.livejournal.com]

... I am Captain Planet.

(Sorry, I could resist at first, but eventually the bad joke got the better of me . . .)