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Good thing about getting married: everyone is really nice to you. It's a little weird, even, made no less weird by the part where I do the same thing when my friends get married. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Like, aren't you more likely to want/need all this attention and niceness when you're having a bad day, not when you're deliriously happy as it is? Ah, positive feedback.

Bad thing about getting married: my family, at least, seems to stress out a lot over things that really won't, you know, blow up the planet no matter what happens, like the favors. Actually, I'd better not mention that to dave, as he will probably then want to give out small nuclear reactors as favors, or something. He will then stay up late trying to figure out how to build them...

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Okay, I think I'm getting this whole posting thing figured out. Hello!

Let's see, what else might be interesting? How about books. Can't go wrong there.

Latest (not sci-fi, or even fiction!) :

Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent.

Really very interesting. I adored the first half of the book. She is really self-aware to a much greater degree than most, I think. The chapter on "Friendship" was just excellent. The second half was also quite good, but the chapter on "Work" was almost painful for me to read, and in the one on "Life" she seemed to be kind of harsh on the monks-- at the very end she gives some tossout lines about how oh yeah, they are kind of spiritual and all too. But you would never have guessed from the rest of what she says.