Jewish Fairy Godmother

I believe I have a Jewish Fairy Godmother at Brooklyn College. Well let me explain:

It's a Cinderella story, really.

In a desperate attempt to get into a science class this semester I wrote a letter to the powers that be. I found the email addresses of two Bio department heads (Stepsisters), begging to have an override into the Core Bio class. So I could still believe that I would be graduating next spring. I may be dirty, but I'd like to go to the ball too.

I sent the email out and immediately received an auto-email from one stepsister who wasn't in her office. Telling me, "Come back this fall and perhaps I'll fit you in." That was of no help, I quickly figured how the next email would be received.

So I went about my day. Going out and doing chores and spending my stimulus package on plays. Paula Vogel, William Inge, Sarah Kane and Tracy Letts. I'm gonna have lots to discuss pretty soon one I begin reading.

Later in the day I got a strange email. Not from the other stepsister, but from someone else. Someone I'd never emailed before and she bore the last name: Steinberg. My fairy Godmother, Luna Steinberg (as I have started calling her) was a Godsend! She didn't explain why she was involved, but just wrote:

Hi: I see from your transcript, that you are a lower senior and I can give you an overtally in one of the fall cores; anything but 0458, 0459, 1914, and 1915. please check your schedule and let me know which code #.

Who are you magic lady? Where did you appear from? How did you get into my file without my SS#? How did you know what I wanted? Being the skeptic I am I humorously replied with the class I'd like to take. Figuring there was no hurt in trying.

Later that night the other Stepsister wrote to me telling me, "Take summer classes, if not take it next spring!" I went to bed, knowing that I would never graduate until 2010. Making that six years of straight undergraduate living.

Then this morning I awoke to a gift from my Godmother:

Hi; your permission is now in for 0456, and you can now registerJ

Do you believe in magic? I do. She signed her name as a smiley face! And like that, I am taking Biology next semester!

Thank you Fairy Godmother. I hope this isn't the only time you'll be helping me.

Not a Shiksa Goddess

Hearing Judy Kuhn talk about Chess in 1988 really makes me smile

:-) << Just like that.

Judy is a little too polite about things in general. You know she doesn't like to step on toes...but I love her and want to hear her dish. I want to see her (once Broadway reopens) in Les Mis as Fantine before it closes.

My favorite quote of this interview is:
Interviewer: The lovely ibdb.com tells us as well as playing Cosette you also are referred to as...whore.

Now the real tale:

The last payment for China requires me to go to the Speech Office in my school. Now I am required to take Speech...yes...but there is a way to get out of it you take a speech screening test. Apparently they make you read this passage that contains all of the different sounds you can make. I plan on taking it someday, who knows when really. Just as long as I don't have to take that class...

So some girl was asking this homely, I mean homely Jewish girl. Now, I know that may be stereotyping, but I go to Brooklyn College, where every girl is basically Jewish. On top of this the girl was socially awkward too. Matchmaker, anyone? No seriously this girl needs a hardcore Matchmaker...

She was a huge...not hot...HUGE mess. I stood there watching her speak and I was in disbelief, pure disbelief! It was phenomenal! I wish I had a video clip of her or something...