Here's a quick blog post while tribe is temporarily up. I plan to post my blog somewhere on my website, www.melissatheloud.com. If tribe stays up, I'll duplicate it here. (Don't look for it just yet, though, since I haven't set it up yet.) Ideally, I'd like to figure out how to allow people to post comments, but not spam.

I sure hope tribe stays up, since I enjoy the discussions here.

Anyway, I haven't blogged for a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. My klezmer band played a bar mitzvah Saturday, that was a lot of fun. Kids know how to dance, and their parents often do too. By the way, my klezmer band needs a name. Ideas? We're a subset of the Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble (CUKE) that's a smaller and more manageable size. Gherkin is a little too obscure.

It was pretty hard wedging my doumbek onto the remains of my lap, though. And the baby still kicks off the beat. I've been playing in various rhythms in my various bands, and I expect this baby to be familiar with all of them by the time it's born in about two weeks. I mean, rhythm is fundamental, and I consider it to be more important than the martial arts it seems to spend most of its time practicing in there.