Michael and I met on a grad school recruiting trip. His first words to me, literally, were, "Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" He insists that he was not hitting on me, that he really -did- think he knew me... In his most sci-fi of moments, he claims that this was because of the non-linearity of the space-time continuum. We already knew each other in some moment... Or something like that.
We spent that glorious recruitment weekend together talking literature and film (Me: I, Claudius... is that the crazy Roman film?), pondering the future (Michael: You should come here, and we should live together and be best friends who always blame each other for our terrible decisions to come here!), and laughing really hard. I liked Michael so much I called him from the airport on my way out of Colorado. Afterward, we continued to speak almost daily, even when he was in Colombia for two months.
Even though I chose a different grad program, Michael and I decided to spend that first summer together. We drove from Florida to NJ, stopping at various points in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. We got caught in a convenience store during a thunderstorm and blackout. We drove the Natchez-Trace Parkway, visited the birthplace of Lincoln, hung out in a cave, listened to music in Nashville, rode a really tall roller coaster in the rain, and refinished my mother's deck. Oh. And I went to Waffle House for the first time. Big trip, people.
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After two years of long-distance, we now live together in Boulder, CO. This June, we're getting married! We wanted to start this blog so that our friends and family could find out a bit more about our upcoming nuptials, ask questions, let us know if/when they're coming. Thus, this will be a largely informative blog. That being said, it's surprisingly hard to resist the temptation to just start writing about random things. We'll see how I hold up.
Welcome to our wedding blog/site!
