Our first anniversary! and crazy week
Sep. 22nd, 2003 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlToday is M.'s and my first anniversary! (Those of you who remember, or were at, our wedding in April may be a tad confused, but we'd gotten married privately in September since M. entered the country on a 90-day fiance visa; we just didn't have time to plan a wedding that quickly, and I was not at all interested in doing it without him . . .)
Our celebration will be a separate post, probably tomorrow.
I had about three weeks' worth of events in one last week. I started the week worried about money -- usually my adjunct jobs don't pay 'til the end of September, and we'd fallen behind between my dental expenses and the ill-fated party (which ended up costing several hundred more than we'd expected). So when free-lance boss Chris called with an index project, and a cool one (idiosyncratic history of gay life from the 40s to the 80s), I relievedly said yes.
Only to discover that Cooper paid me on Wednesday and to realize that I had all kinds of non-reschedulable social events: lunch with Jen whose baby was due yesterday and who was trying to see everyone individually beforehand; Jacqueline's birthday party (at a really cool art-and-poetry bar in the South Bronx, a neighborhood I confess I'd still had 70's based fear of); Isabella's dissertation defense gathering (populated by colleagues from the Cooper writing center); a Humanities faculty wine-tasting (actually a lot of fun -- I got to talk to quite a few full-time and adjunct faculty members I hadn't really known and learned a bit about some nicer wines); Mary's second-ever performance doing cabaret, and New York is Book Country and related events (which I will describe in a separate entry): Neil Gaiman! Art Spiegelman! A. S. Byatt! Jeffrey Eugenides!
Did make it through the project -- although the author is perhaps more obsessed with Bette Davis than anyone needs to be.
Our celebration will be a separate post, probably tomorrow.
I had about three weeks' worth of events in one last week. I started the week worried about money -- usually my adjunct jobs don't pay 'til the end of September, and we'd fallen behind between my dental expenses and the ill-fated party (which ended up costing several hundred more than we'd expected). So when free-lance boss Chris called with an index project, and a cool one (idiosyncratic history of gay life from the 40s to the 80s), I relievedly said yes.
Only to discover that Cooper paid me on Wednesday and to realize that I had all kinds of non-reschedulable social events: lunch with Jen whose baby was due yesterday and who was trying to see everyone individually beforehand; Jacqueline's birthday party (at a really cool art-and-poetry bar in the South Bronx, a neighborhood I confess I'd still had 70's based fear of); Isabella's dissertation defense gathering (populated by colleagues from the Cooper writing center); a Humanities faculty wine-tasting (actually a lot of fun -- I got to talk to quite a few full-time and adjunct faculty members I hadn't really known and learned a bit about some nicer wines); Mary's second-ever performance doing cabaret, and New York is Book Country and related events (which I will describe in a separate entry): Neil Gaiman! Art Spiegelman! A. S. Byatt! Jeffrey Eugenides!
Did make it through the project -- although the author is perhaps more obsessed with Bette Davis than anyone needs to be.
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:30 am (UTC)I love this kind of good news. Thanks for reminding us.
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:59 am (UTC)happy happy!!!
Date: 2003-09-22 05:17 pm (UTC)and I can't believe you got through that whole history of gay life as fast as you did. It's ENORMOUS! I saw it sitting on the desk and ran the other way.
Re: happy happy!!!
Date: 2003-09-24 06:47 am (UTC)I am never doing a book that size in that period of time, at least not during the school year, ever again. (But remember, I've been doing this for so long that I'm particularly fast when I need to be . . . )