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A few things going on. I'll comment on other folks, a bunch, I'm sure, but don't know if I'm going to take much time to write this week:
1. I got an old/new roommate. My very good friend and former housmate from grad school, Haggai, (he was the lifeline BTW) relocated to DC and will be living with me for at least awhile. This is good, in that we've always gotten along well. And as a nice side benefit, having a tenant means I get some (lessened because I live there too) tax breaks on some of the home improvements I've wanted to get around to.
2. Saw "Fairenheit 9/11". I already dislike the administration, and not much of the material was particularly new to me (or anyone who reads Salon regularly) but it's a fairly well constructed polemic. I may or may not comment after some of my friends from the other side of the aisle see it.
3. The wedding trip. Some of the ATPO folks are going up to Chicago for a meetup, and I hope y'all have fun. I, OTOH, will be in Pittsburgh playing the role of Best Man in my friend Jesse's wedding.
Haven't written the toast, but I have a general outline:
A. How I met/know Jesse
B. How great I think he and Monique are
C. Embarrassing stuff about Jesse
D. General Well-wishing
That should cover it, right? Mostly, I just want to get out of the way and on to the drinking and dancing portion.
1. I got an old/new roommate. My very good friend and former housmate from grad school, Haggai, (he was the lifeline BTW) relocated to DC and will be living with me for at least awhile. This is good, in that we've always gotten along well. And as a nice side benefit, having a tenant means I get some (lessened because I live there too) tax breaks on some of the home improvements I've wanted to get around to.
2. Saw "Fairenheit 9/11". I already dislike the administration, and not much of the material was particularly new to me (or anyone who reads Salon regularly) but it's a fairly well constructed polemic. I may or may not comment after some of my friends from the other side of the aisle see it.
3. The wedding trip. Some of the ATPO folks are going up to Chicago for a meetup, and I hope y'all have fun. I, OTOH, will be in Pittsburgh playing the role of Best Man in my friend Jesse's wedding.
Haven't written the toast, but I have a general outline:
A. How I met/know Jesse
B. How great I think he and Monique are
C. Embarrassing stuff about Jesse
D. General Well-wishing
That should cover it, right? Mostly, I just want to get out of the way and on to the drinking and dancing portion.
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A. How I met/know Jesse
B. How great I think he and Monique are
C. Embarrassing stuff about Jesse
D. General Well-wishing
And so enquiring minds want to know, just how embarrassed is Jesse going to be?
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So I'll stick to the safe stuff. He's this very classy English PhD, yet he has a not-so-secret fondness for ass-rock. Both of them got their PhDs from Stanford and have been at McGill, but she's from Washington PA and he's from Frederick (aka "Fredneck") MD - so I'm pretty sure I can get easy mileage out of the "country boy/city slicker" dichotomy with this audience.
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*cough* Go McGill *cough*
Sorry. Showing my Canadian roots again.