Hunger Games/District 9

Was in my head all morning. Also seems someone else made the connection.

Settlers Seder Plate

Last summer my fiancee and I had the idea of a Settlers of Catan seder plate. It all seemed to work so well, the brick for the charoset, the sheep for the zeroah (lamb shank), wheat for the bitter herb. We waited until this Passover to share, so that it was more appropriately timed.

Sure, the wheat is kind of out of place since it's forbidden on Passover, but it works well enough as a symbol for other things that grow that could be the bitter herb (maror).

For an broad introduction to the Passover seder plate, see this link from Chabad.

Our Passover seder plate is below:

Charoset: brick

Maror (bitter herb): wheat

Chazeret (bitter herb): pastures hex

Zeroa (lamb shank): sheep

Karpas (vegetable): wood

Beitzah (egg): a real egg

Ironic Spelling Bee Loss

In first grade I participated in my one and only spelling bee. I won that spelling bee. It had come down to the final two contestants. The word the girl I was facing lost on: "second".

The next year my parents moved my family to the next town over, and my new school didn't have spelling bees. Oh, well.