Phonecall for me from the Universe

The thing that I will remember longest about Sunday night at Cambridge City Hall... had nothing to do with same-sex marriage.

( Marriage, though, yes. NOT with any tangible outcome, no. But conceptually. )

When I told my therapist this story this morning, he said, "You know, if you were more of a mystic, you'd have to say that that was some kind of sign from God."

I said it was more striking to me that that, after all we've gone through and said and done, all the frustration and anguish, is so immediately my gut reaction. The impulse that never truly goes away.

Lots going on

Frances's pix from our BBQ! (Um, link deleted 'cause webshots.com tried to give navrins a virus-infected file. Phooey.)

Another Brandeisian gets on: Welcome, eesti. I knew we'd get you before much longer. ;-)

It has occurred to me in the past few days exactly how much I have committed to in the next 2 months!

Ordered the color laser proof for msmidge's ketubah, will have it tomorrow! (When I pick it up, they'll show me all the other available paper options, supposedly they have lots.) Two new ketubah (handwork) commissions for the summer, both referred by Rabbi Rim. One is to do Right Now -- for, shall we say, a double-bride wedding, yay! They only want me to do a single paragraph of the Hebrew, and the wedding is June 6, and they're FedExing me the document today so I'll probably do this Sunday morning (in-between singing engagements). The other is for the end of August, for my friend from shul.

Tonight: finish signage for concert, stop by shul to photocopy programs for concert, take a walk to the grocery store for (among other things) refreshments for the concert... make the very last corrections on the shul newsletter and deliver a final PDF for that... maybe vacuum... make some more headway on the Torah reading. And catch a breather with some pleasure reading, if I am lucky (or, perhaps, wise). But I doubt I will be.

Somewhere in here, I am supposed to be designing the event programs for Noreascon 4 (four documents for the four big events of Thursday through Sunday: the First Night festivity schedule, and playbills for the Retro Hugos, the actual Hugos, and the Masquerade). I should really start drafting something, but it will help to have content to play with. There's a general meeting Saturday afternoon so maybe I'll get something in place from that. I keep thinking I'd like to bring some kind of preliminary design draft to a meeting like this, but I have given up on that ambition for this week.

And I should start learning my lines, eh? I'll be taking my Lion in Winter script to Atlanta, that's for sure.

Okay, I'm leaving the office now. Really.