Woohooo! One Invitation completely finished! The name is on the front, there are stamps on the appropriate envelopes, maps & hotel information are inside, the RSVP card is numbered (Thanks for the pointer, Emma!), and everything is sealed. I'm sure Chris was impressed with my dancing around the house with my finished invitation. Only 116 to go...Eeks. That's in addition to finishing 3 more chapters of my certification book, signing up for the first of five certification classes next week or two, swimming tonight, wedding classes on Thursday, and a boatload of thank you cards. I think I need a paper bag to breath into.

[Ed's note: You can read the highlights of the talk here]
We went to see a talk by PJ O'Rourke last night, and he was hysterical. He heckles the political process in general, with some shots at specific individuals (President Bush, Kerry, Ted Kennedy). One of his best known lines is "Giving money and power to government is like giving liquor and car keys to teen age boys." He is conservative, which didn't go over well with the crowd last night. To understand, this is part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures series, and their speakers tend towards the liberal and the feminist with a few scientists in the mix to keep things interesting. I've seen a lot of good speakers there. But most of these were season subscribers who probably weren't too thrilled to see Mr O'Rourke instead of, say, Al Franken. Alas, people felt that it was ok to yell at him from the audience rather than taking their turns to ask questions. Just a suggestion folks, if you're going to try to take someone down, this is not the guy to do it with. He's funny, he's smart, and he's been there and done that. In addition, if you think that's going to change the mind of people like me, you're barking up the wrong tree. It just made me so contemptuous of the hecklers that it rubbed off on the message. So it was a bit of a bad taste in my mouth at the end of the talk.

Back to almost wedding stuff. My friend Kathy found this article, which is either really funny or terribly sad. Since I don't feel like crying today, I'm just going to laugh. And as Kathy said, maybe put $50 on the Greek Orthodox priest, I think he's carrying a staff. Think of the potential this has for the reception - we don't need no stinking DJs, we have one priest & two brothers from the Frs of Mercy. Maybe we can have a wrestling match in the middle of the dance floor. The possibilities are endless.

[Ed's note: And here I will apologize to my mother. For years she would correct me and end it with "people will think poorly of us." I never quite understood that until the last year. All I could think about as people shouted down O'Rourke was "My mother would've dragged me out by the arm and tanned my hide." Thanks Mom.]
- posted by cam @ 6:46 AM