One Very Long Day

Yesterday was entirely too long: I was up at 4:20 and didn't get back to my apartment until after 11:00pm- and that was after the nice people at the airline bumped us up to the flight prior to the one we'd originally gotten. That was a heck of a lot of time spent on transit of different sorts. But I had a nice time getting to talk to Steve with whom I was travelling for a good while with nothing else we could be doing besides napping- which is hard to do when a plane is either taking off or landing, which seemed to be most of the time on our flights.

But the wedding was lovely: very human, very honest, not at all a performance. It really fit the personalities of the folks involved, and didn't try to intimidate anyone. And it was really and truly beautiful watching a ceremony where the rabbi officiating was the father of the bride: it had a completely different overtone and atmosphere than any other wedding I've seen. And the party was lovely also: nothing felt forced (except the band every time they started playing after a pause for toasts or announcements or what-have-you: they seemed to have only one starting dynamic: forte verging on fortissimo), and I got to spend time with a bunch of folks I haven't seen in anything ranging from a while to a year. And there was the usual chunk of dances that went between IFD and simcha dancing, and therefore I either knew very, very well or had seen before only at other weddings- which were done by me and a few friends, but mostly by middle aged ladies.

And after it all, I fell into bed and didn't wake up for quite a while- but I'm still tired. Go figure.

One Very Long Day

Yesterday was entirely too long: I was up at 4:20 and didn't get back to my apartment until after 11:00pm- and that was after the nice people at the airline bumped us up to the flight prior to the one we'd originally gotten. That was a heck of a lot of time spent on transit of different sorts. But I had a nice time getting to talk to Steve with whom I was travelling for a good while with nothing else we could be doing besides napping- which is hard to do when a plane is either taking off or landing, which seemed to be most of the time on our flights.

But the wedding was lovely: very human, very honest, not at all a performance. It really fit the personalities of the folks involved, and didn't try to intimidate anyone. And it was really and truly beautiful watching a ceremony where the rabbi officiating was the father of the bride: it had a completely different overtone and atmosphere than any other wedding I've seen. And the party was lovely also: nothing felt forced (except the band every time they started playing after a pause for toasts or announcements or what-have-you: they seemed to have only one starting dynamic: forte verging on fortissimo), and I got to spend time with a bunch of folks I haven't seen in anything ranging from a while to a year. And there was the usual chunk of dances that went between IFD and simcha dancing, and therefore I either knew very, very well or had seen before only at other weddings- which were done by me and a few friends, but mostly by middle aged ladies.

And after it all, I fell into bed and didn't wake up for quite a while- but I'm still tired. Go figure.

A couple other things about the wedding/travels

A few other interesting things about yesterday

1. It was the first time I'd seen a bride wear anything other than white: she had a dress in a sort of light beige-y pink. It suited her very well- actually, I didn't realize that it wasn't white, or at least ivory, right away, but once I did, it was pretty obvious.

2. Flying back, we got to see fireworks from above, which was pretty neat, although they're much less impressive that way. But I got to see a lot of them in a bunch of different places, nearly at once. It was really rather cool.

A couple other things about the wedding/travels

A few other interesting things about yesterday

1. It was the first time I'd seen a bride wear anything other than white: she had a dress in a sort of light beige-y pink. It suited her very well- actually, I didn't realize that it wasn't white, or at least ivory, right away, but once I did, it was pretty obvious.

2. Flying back, we got to see fireworks from above, which was pretty neat, although they're much less impressive that way. But I got to see a lot of them in a bunch of different places, nearly at once. It was really rather cool.

New Apartmentmate

My new apartmentmate just moved in: she literally just got here 20 minutes ago. She seems nice, and was agreeable when we gave her the basic orientation to a kosher kitchen (and what was involved in buying hechshered food), and mentioned to keep the kitchen and bathroom lights on over Shabbat. So things are looking positive thus far. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

New Apartmentmate

My new apartmentmate just moved in: she literally just got here 20 minutes ago. She seems nice, and was agreeable when we gave her the basic orientation to a kosher kitchen (and what was involved in buying hechshered food), and mentioned to keep the kitchen and bathroom lights on over Shabbat. So things are looking positive thus far. Hopefully it'll stay that way.