Jewish liturgical music woke me up the other weekend and I found myself wondering between the pillows if I should be Jewish. Eerily enough (quite enough!) the course of the week revealed that some people close to me were actively researching the possibility of conversion.

A friend of mine (a Jewish one) once described the Jewish law as containing rules that are more or less arbitrary but make you a "better person." The example? Not eating while the other person is not present. So if you're watching a football game with your chum and have a bowl of peanuts on the table, and he walks out to hit the head, you're not meant to go popping any peanuts while he's out. This is more or less the example he gave. Not precisely.

Well, I like the idea of not eating any peanuts while the other guy is out of the room, anyway.