Yesterday I went to Stu Shiffman and Andi Shechter's wedding, at the Burke Museum. I didn't get a chance to say more than hello and congratulations to Stu and Andi (weddings are often like that, but I should remember to call Andi and try to get together in a few weeks). They both seemed very pleased to be getting married, which is the main thing. The rabbi said some good things about the two of them and their very long-standing relationship, and their determination,* along with various blessings in Hebrew and English. Stu had trouble breaking the traditional glass; if anyone else is planning a Jewish wedding, don't put the glass in a satin bag, they're slippery.
I spent a lot of time at the wedding talking with David Levine and Kate Yule, who I hadn't really spent time with in a couple of years (they missed a Wiscon, and then I missed one); near the end of the meal I spent some time talking with one of Andi's bridesmaids, who didn't know most of the other guests, but who was happy to talk about books and things, and who also turned out to have lived for a while in my old New York neighborhood, Inwood, so we talked a bit about geography and how cool the park is and such.
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roadnotes and alanro came over here for conversation, tea, etc. Good conversation, first with just her and then with both of them, and then cattitude came home and we talked some more and then went out for sushi. After dinner, Roadnotes and Alan went to catch their respective buses and talk a bit, and Cattitude and I came home. (I had hoped to have some time to talk with just Alan, but that was when he thought he'd have a car and would be arriving before she did, not after. I am going to try to make more of an effort to keep up with him when neither of us is visiting the area where the other one lives, but that's more a hope than a solid plan—we can spend an hour and a half on the phone just chatting, or go for a year or more with neither of us thinking to pick up the phone.)
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adrian_turtle, and maybe the person who runs the grocery store fish counter.
* Stu has spent the last two years recovering from a stroke, and is still in a rehabilitation facility.
I spent a lot of time at the wedding talking with David Levine and Kate Yule, who I hadn't really spent time with in a couple of years (they missed a Wiscon, and then I missed one); near the end of the meal I spent some time talking with one of Andi's bridesmaids, who didn't know most of the other guests, but who was happy to talk about books and things, and who also turned out to have lived for a while in my old New York neighborhood, Inwood, so we talked a bit about geography and how cool the park is and such.
This afternoon
roadnotes and alanro came over here for conversation, tea, etc. Good conversation, first with just her and then with both of them, and then cattitude came home and we talked some more and then went out for sushi. After dinner, Roadnotes and Alan went to catch their respective buses and talk a bit, and Cattitude and I came home. (I had hoped to have some time to talk with just Alan, but that was when he thought he'd have a car and would be arriving before she did, not after. I am going to try to make more of an effort to keep up with him when neither of us is visiting the area where the other one lives, but that's more a hope than a solid plan—we can spend an hour and a half on the phone just chatting, or go for a year or more with neither of us thinking to pick up the phone.)Tomorrow, I may not talk to anyone except Cattitude,
adrian_turtle, and maybe the person who runs the grocery store fish counter.* Stu has spent the last two years recovering from a stroke, and is still in a rehabilitation facility.