Bad Lauren...

... has not updated in a while. I fixed the link to the Virtual Book Club over on the right of this page. You can also take a peek at the site (which is now updated, thank you very much) by clicking here. Our next book is "Single Wife" by Nina Soloman. A review is posted on the Virtual Book Club blog.

My Cincinnati 101 class has wrapped up. This week we took a visit to the Skirball Museum at the Hebrew Union College, which is the epicenter of reform Judaism in the United States. Well, it started in Cincinnati, at least. There are also Hebrew Union Colleges in NYC and L.A.

In the rare book room at the college (which smelled deliciously of old books, a smell that any book lover relishes) they have some of the oldest texts ever created. Books that are hundreds, even a thousand years old. They've got one of the oldest Bible's ever created. They've got Chinese texts that date back to teh 1660s. It's amazing.

Although I was hoping to meet a few people through this experience, I was not successful. Actually, I did meet one girl but she didn't show up for either of the last two classes, so she was a bust. It was an interesting class, however, and I learned a lot about Cincinnati. I enjoyed playing tourist in my new city and will probably do so on my own - or at the very least, sign up for Cincinnati 102 if they develop a class for that. Nerdine has started her own version of this class with some friends. I seriously would encourage everyone to do it: It's fun, it gets you out of the house, it's a good learning experience AND you never know what little treasures might turn up.