NOT KEEPING SCORE

Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
WHAT? I can’t hear you over the wailing Hindi music!
Yes, I know. Anyone who has visited NKS in the past week, (perhaps surreptitiously while at work with the volume up) — I apologize. But look: I finally figured out how to turn off the auto-play on my […]

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Although I’ve surrendered to the notion that Not Keeping Score is little more than an online account of the tediums of a silly California girl’s adventures — I’m determined to make this blog a more interactive one. Why? Because I get tired of entertaining myself.
So, in the spirit of interaction, I’m asking my Dear-Darling Readers […]

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Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
I’ve left Tel Aviv and moved into my little temporary flat in Herziliya Pituach, a beach town that feels like it belongs in San Diego. The woman who is renting me the flat - Margalit - is an older Israeli woman and talks as much with her […]

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Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
Body milk is not soap - that’s shower cream. Or a cream bar. “Milk” is lotion but a lotion is “cream” (i.e. sun cream) - unless it’s just lotion.
Despite what you’re thinking, the Shaver2000 is a blow-dryer, and the AirJet is a water faucet.
Yes, that is […]

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Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
Neve Tsedek
Saturday afternoon I managed a walk to Nafal Tel-Aviv, Israel’s (much more classy) version of San Francisco’s Pier 39. (Travel Tip #1: don’t walk for miles in nearly 90 degree weather with cheap-ass sandals on)
Ariel was having a birthday celebration that night and invited me along. […]

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Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
Woke up at 6 to an already hot, hazy morning. The sun was rising over Tel Aviv, and the air smelled like wet clay. Dove-like birds chirped to my right, flitted around the rooftops and water towers at various buildings. Bits of deep green trees poking out […]

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I arrived in Tel Aviv and realized that I (inadvertently) managed to get a pack of matches through both U.S. and Israeli security — even while tagged for extra thorough “super-screening.” I had put the little strike-box from a San Francisco restaurant in my wallet after dinner and forgot they were there until… now.
oops.

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(She Disembarks)
First travel story: I approached the ticket counter, checked my bag, and smiled as the Delta employee handed me back my passport. Then my face dropped as said, “Are you on the Do Not Fly list?”
I searched my brain. Hey self: I asked myself, Recently committed any acts that may have landed us on […]

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The SoCoCo Poetry reading went well. I’ve been asked to read at WordTemple November 9th (I’ll be sure to post a reminder as the date nears for all you rabid poetry fans.)
I’ve had excruciatingly little time to write, however. I leave for Israel in three days, afterwhich I am traveling for 2 & 1/2 months. […]

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I’m doing some work for a couple of Web 2.0 companies, and finding myself, well — 2.0verwhelmed.
I like to think of myself as a fairly savvy technology user, but I have to admit that more and more I have to “educate myself” to keep up.
It all started when I ripped off all of my […]

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