The most important thing in my life is my friends.  I cannot imagine life without them. I spend a lot of time with Osnat, my best friend of 23 years. We like taking the dogs out for a walk, shopping, swimming or just sitting around talking. We talk on the phone about 10 times a day and see each other almost every day. People joke that she is my 'wife'. Erez (my boyfriend) makes fun of how many times a day we talk on the phone.
       I meet my other friends less frequently - sometimes not as frequent as I would like.

Then comes my computer, or more specifically the internet and my visor. 
       The internet: I can almost say I'm addicted to the net. However, since I once was truly addicted, I know that now it's more of an extreme hobby :). I have a DSL internet connection and my computer is turned on and online 24/7. I think it's amazing that not only can you find information about anything on the net, you can also find people willing to talk to you about this thing. Thus, I am on mailing lists that have to do with my being a woman, a palm user, a vet, a dog, cat, rat owner, the way I feed myself and my pets and combinations of the above :). Read more about this, here.

       My PDA - my first PDA was a visor: My brother Boaz got me a Handspring Visor Deluxe (a palm type personal computer) in August (2000). Within months, I could not understand how I ever lived without it. More, here. Then last summer I got a Sony Clie NX80 which I love - finally colour! I got it as a non-wedding present from my Aunt Zipi. She decided it was unfair she had given each of my brothers a $1,000 wedding present and had not given me such a present even though  I had not gotten married  - so she gave me a thousand dollars. I bought the Clie and a Canon Elph S400 digital camera. I love my gadgets! And I love my aunt :).

Politics used to play a very big part in my life, perhaps only natural for someone coming from a country like Israel. My early university years were the years before 1993, before anyone even thought of talking to the Palestinians. I moved slowly from the mild to extreme left wing, being active first with Ratz and then at university with Meretz and then Campus, affiliated with Hadash. In the middle of all this activism, I left for peaceful Slovakia (no, there is NO war in Slovakia, it is NOT Slovenia). Coming back, 4 years later, to a country 'ruled' by Bibi, did not make me want to be involved again and I spent a few quiet years. Recently I have gone back to political activities but with a feeling of deep despair, something I did not have once.

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