May 19, 2007

• bits

  Semester officially over: grades are posted. I'm a little shirty about how I did just as well in the super hard class as in the class I thought I was near the top of the class in. But I'll get over it - they were both pretty good grades and it seems like my GPA is completely not important now.

  Still haven't sold that stupid analysis book - but it is sitting in my friend's office (to which I now have a key!) so I can try as soon as I am there and motivated. motivated seems to be the missing piece.

  I am starting to study for the prelim (6/1!). In that weird way where I have a slow moment in the evening, so I go try another analysis problem (working my way through the old prelims that are available online.)

  I'm never sure how much I want to talk about this here on the wilds of the internet, but: We got our marriage license yesterday (the only civic servants you'll ever meet who only have to deal with happy people.) The room was mostly plain old federal building waiting room - but with bouquets with hearts in them, antique black and white wedding pictures, and one of those trellis arch things in the corner.

  Things to know about getting your marriage license: they would prefer that you know where your parents are born. How silly. It's in a public building - like the kind with a metal detector at the door. Leave your pocket knife in the car.

  Also, the marriage license does not make you married. Within 30 days,
  you get married, and the officiant fills out the form, sends it back to
  the clerk, and THEN it's official.

  Today we're meeting a photographer and taking fancy pictures. Getting married seemed like a good excuse to actually have pictures with both of us in them (we have about 3. none of which are very good. ) Because it's us, it's a photographer chosen based on his online portfolio and friendly responses to emails. (Actually, I emailed two and he was the one who emailed me back... Kind of like how I got my spiff new job, so maybe that's a good sign.)

  We got a grill! as kind of a hand-me-down, early wedding present. I'll have to get N to blog about it: all I know is that delicious meat comes back inside with him, and he hasn't set anything on fire that he wasn't supposed to.

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