"Dollhouse" is the best show on TV right now!!!!!!!!

I know I haven't posted in awhile but I've been sick and working a lot. I will post an update about some of the time between posts soon but, for now, I just need to state that "Joss Whedon rules!". Ditto for Jane Espenson! Dollhouse isn't flashy but it is well written and acted, the characters seem genuine (I realize the irony---and I did use that word correctly), and the plot is extremely interesting. I really is the best show on TV in, what feels to me, a quiet way.

In other news, I went to the most amazing Seder last night. My friend, and fellow alum, Opeyemi, co-hosted a Seder for "Passover Orphans" (people who can't go home for the holiday and aren't hosting their own). I felt really comfortable and loved even though Opeyemi was the only person there that I had known before the event. The Seder was open and welcoming, while still being traditional, creative, and humorous. During the story of the exodus from Egypt, there were two lines that cracked me up while I was reading them. I had to stop laughing before I could finish reading them aloud. They were about when Moses petitioned the pharoh to let the Jews go: "First he tried asking, then he tried magic, then he tried plagues. That seemed to work!" (Did I mention this was the VERY abbreviated story of the exodus?) When we got to the part in the Seder where we open the door for Elijah, Opeyemi's friend David came in bearing candy to share and dressed as Elijah. Opeyemi accompanied him dressed as a mystery woman. While she acted out her character, we had to guess who she was. When she threw some of the candy over the table, to express her displeasure at being left out of the Seder and forgotten by history, we were all laughing too hard at her antics to guess. She turned out to be Lillith, the first woman (yes, before Eve), and she was representing all the women who've been forgotten by history. Oh, one more funny bit; I told our intern (who's a big role playing and fantasy card gamer) that I was going to a Seder I had to spell it out for him like this: S-e-d-e-r not S-a-t-y-r. Hee, hee.

I hope you are all well. I will post more soon.