Stress
I feel stressed out by my continuing unemployed state. I'm still temping, but there's only a month left of that job. I've been in and out of unemployment my whole life and have never had such a hard time finding a job. It might seem good that I just got married...
Tough times
I guess it's just really tough times for people right now because the morning of March 25th we sent out 75 mailed announcements to let friends and family know that we just got married and we've heard from a surprisingly low number of people. We did get a couple of...
Okay, hospitality it is.
Now that I'm past the initial flush of wifehood (wifedom? wifitude?), I'm turning my attention back to my job situation. For five weeks now I've been working at a temporary job, cleaning up the frequent diner membership database at a restaurant company. Yes, I was...
Married
The 41-and-a-half year-old spinster and the 45-and-a-half year-old bachelor are finally legal. On Tuesday, March 25th, Bob and I went down to city hall in Chicago with a few friends where a very nice judge did the ceremony, which was surprisingly quick. We were aiming...
Plain Endings
I'm amazed when a friend tells me she thinks she's found the guy she's going to marry. Even if they've been dating for six months or a year, I'm amazed that anyone is able to predict whom they will marry. I had no idea I was going to marry Bob when we'd been dating...
Barack Obama’s speech
I'm torn between preparing for my wedding day (which is taking a considerable amount of time and focus these days) and wanting to just watch/listen to/write about/discuss/blog about the amazing events that are happening during this campaign season. I just read a...
Wedding Insanity
It's a good thing I didn't establish this blog with a "being single" theme or call it "Spinster on the Edge" or anything like that. As little as I was able to imagine ever getting married, when I created this blog I decided to highlight a quality I knew would never...
My mother dresses me
I'm 41 years old and getting married (for the first time) in two weeks and I'm way too old to have my mother still buying me clothes. She said she sent me a sweater and I was prepared to open it, not like it and then graciously ask her to stop buying me clothes.But...
Barack Obama Is No Dennis Kucinich or Paul Wellstone, But He’ll Do I Guess
In 1988 I started the Cornell University PhD program in English literature along with Rayfield Waller and a few other graduate students of color. I fled academia in 1992, but Ray finished his PhD and is now a professor, and vice-president of his union, at Wayne State...
Comeback
I KNEW IT. I should have posted my prediction that Clinton would pull off Texas and Ohio and the marathon slugfest would continue.I'd like to point out that with the exception of Monroe and Coolidge, there has never been an American president whose last name ended in...
Preparing to Leave Spinsterhood
Spinster: an unmarried woman past the common age of marriage. The estimated median age, at first marriage, in the United States for 2000-2003 was 27 and 25 years old, for men and women respectively. Friends have asked if I'll be having a bachelorette party before I...
Latinos for Obama
Whoa! Look at this: there ARE Latinos supporting Obama, such as the musicians of Mariachi Aguilas de Mexico. This is some pretty good music, too. English translation of the lyrics: To the candidate who is Barack ObamaI sing this corrido with all my soulHe was born...