The last days of a government before elections is the best time to demand things.  And the teachers have not been getting their demands for months – so today is the perfect day to strike.  A week before the end of the semester for those finishing grammar school.  

There are lots of other demands as well – and Lapid has to win for the safety of the entire country, so he is an easy target.  It really doesn’t matter to people who follow Bibi whether he is convicted on corruption – they don’t believe in truth anyway (or they know something that I can’t figure out).

Anyway I’m going to explain why I was on strike yesterday.  It begins with a class I was asked to teach for the adult college Katedra.  This coming Friday at noon.  As someone who has a hard time saying no I agreed last week to read some poems to a class that basically is about musicals.  Then came the additions: explain about them?  power-point?  translations?  Okay.  In the meantime I’m trying to do the paperwork for the IAWE that should be done by an accountant.  Many pages of nothing with original signatures.  And I’m trying to fill in the forms for payment for the many lectures I gave all over the place.  So by the time for my Arabic lesson, the blog and then sleep, I was asleep. On strike one could say.

Anyway save the following dates:  July 27 for Beit Hasopher on 6 Kaplan Street, and August 25 for the municipal library on Shlomo Hamelech street.  The first one is  for the writers organization.  The second is about me.

but it turns out that all the forms I filled out were wrong, so I’m back where I started yesterday