Just your average history-making Sunday, really

[chanaleh]

Morning:

Shul annual meeting where I stepped down as vice-president (but was incepted as head of the newly-official 20s&30s *Committee*, which hitherto has operated as sort of a black box to the rest of the shul community. Hopefully this bodes well).

Afternoon:

Made buttons for besamim and one for tapuz.

Watched The Lion in Winter (the 1968 Hepburn/O'Toole version, not the forthcoming Close/Stewart version, though I am eager to see that one). There was a lot about it that failed to thrill me, actually. I look forward to drawing more out of it. :-)

Finally went to the grocery store. And cooked a pot of rice. And did dishes. No laundry though (mentally begging off until tonight, due to rain).

Evening:

Four hours of Menschen rehearsal for our concerts this weekend! (Sneak preview: Our "shtick" [comedy] portion of this performance is a running skit entitled "Frum Eye for the Goy Trayf Guy"... Really, y'all should come see us. ;-)

An hour-plus at the zogathons' for Mr. Zog's birthday/dissertation defense/head-shaving party. Was so happy to see them for the first time in literally months. Brought them buttons too. Re-met some very cool people. Was reminded as soon as I got there about the equal marriage festival about to take place just three blocks from my own house. How could I not go?

Got to Cambridge City Hall a few moments after midnight. It was amazing. "This restores my faith in humanity." There were surprisingly few protesters who bothered to show up. And as soon as I got there I found a whole crowd of people I knew who were there as supporters... up to and including my best beloved. We hugged and cried (well, I did, at least, if not for all the same reasons) and laughed and cheered like mad and blew bubbles and took pictures. I stayed until nearly 3:00 a.m., by which time the crowd had thinned out considerably to just a couple hundred (!), but I wanted to see mattlistener and mud_puppy emerge with their license, which they finally did, in matching rainbow-striped solidarity vests. Adorable and very touching.

Tired today. But glad I can say I was there.