Monday, July 25, 2005
Dearly Beloved
I t's our second wedding anniversary today.
Now only if D. were here!
In the gift column, a second anniversary means: Traditional: Cotton. Modern: Paper. Postmodern: Weblog entry. And so I can print this baby out on some dense-woven from Office Max and call it good. Mmm-hm. What?
They'll be home from Kenya tomorrow night, she and Ph. In the meantime, I'm reading and grading end-of-term stuff, dirty-clothes laundering, dish-doing, and mulling over the purchases I just might make on a long overdue trip to the grocery store.
I should, nonetheless, take this happy anniversary entry as an opportunity to mention that D. is really terrific--patient, thoughtful, sweet, and patient (this could be a much longer list to be sure). We've known each other since the seventh grade (something like 1985? what the hell...20 years?), times when note-passing and three-hour phone conversations helped us get to know each other so well.... (Here, pass this note to D., quick while Mrs. H. isn't looking.) Skipping around parts of the long version now, this is just to say that it's unfortunately common for me to underrepresent D.'s remarkably caring presence when I plunk out these weblog entries (heh, or over-represent her absence...gone two whole weeks!?). Oh, and to say it's good to have an anniversary with D.
I feel like I should have some wine now, or cake or something.
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