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Just like some people win the adoption lottery, other people wind up with kickass last names. Case in point, my friend Carolyn, who already has an awesome surname and is gaining an equally-fantastic last name this September. She’s decided to go the path of least resistance and take her husband’s last name, keeping her maiden [...] I first met Erin and Alex about a month into dating Chris. Erin and I had insta-friend chemistry, which was awesome, considering she’s one of Chris’s favorite people. I imagined that Erin and I would spend endless time together, laughing, dancing, and skipping through the City, matching charm bracelets adorning our golden wrists. I’ve seen Erin [...] We’ve suffered. Oh, how we’ve suffered on the Wedding Road Trip. Forced to eat great meals and to explore interesting cities. The ultimate indignity? “Having” to stop in Aspen, Colorado to see Chris and Krystal, friends of mine from grad school. Obviously I jest, but we did have a few moments of terror on the way [...] It happened at a moment when I was least expecting it. Sitting here at a table in Wausau, Wisconsin working on the website as both Chris and my friend Jason sit typing away on their own computers. We were talking about relationships when Jason said to me, “you seem kind of heartless.” At first I thought he was joking, but then I realized that he was absolutely serious. When he stepped away from the table, I turned to Chris and said, “do you think I’m too hard toward you?” He looked at me, shrugged and said, “that’s just your public persona. You’re not like that with me when we’re [...] My parents still live in the house I grew up in, and given real estate prices in Michigan, that trend is unlikely to change. Luckily, that means it’s easy to remember their address and home phone number. (Note to people under 40: Yes, my parents have a land line! Isn’t that novel?) We’re seeing M&D [...] I owe my cousin Daniel an apology. Back when he was in high school and I was in the sixth grade, my grandmother took us both to Clovis Lakes, the local water park. For the entire day, I reported to Daniel and gave him the phone numbers of girls who he thought was cute. By the end of the day, he had about twenty numbers. This sounds like a great story [...] New York, Day 3, Act 2 was dinner with my friends from the University of Michigan. My freshman year I was assigned to Mary Markley dorm, which for some reason was largely populated by New Yorkers. They were loud and obnoxious and had funny accents. I liked them immediately. [Random side note: Why would you ever want a dorm named after you? Think about all the NC-17 activities that happen there – would you want your classy name associated with a one-night stand? One that didn’t involve [...] On Day two in New York, we spent an evening with our hosts, Bea and Jed. Bea was one of my best friends at grad school. Now she and her husband Jed live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in a classic NYC setup: a Puerto Rican and a Jew living in a Polish neighborhood. Their son Sebastian will probably become a [...] We were supposed to see Alina on Friday night for appetizers and drinks at Alma de Cuba. Too bad we were too busy breaking and entering in New Jersey. Alina was gracious enough to reschedule with us and even went so far as to snag us a table at the best brunch place in [...] I met Adrienne when we took three and a half months out of our regularly-scheduled lives to whore ourselves out for Wal-Mart and Coppertone as part of the Steps Across America campaign. At the time, I truly believed that we were walking across the United States for the better health of our great country, armed with the heroic task of teaching people how to use pedometers. God, I’m [...] |
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