Filed under: MFA, Wedding, st. louis | Tags: charlottesville, Hebrew, MFA, st. louis, Wedding
I feel very lucky to be here. My fellow MFAs are talented, friendly, outgoing, and helpful, and I love them. I love spending time with them. Look at me, social Jazzy!
I have my first reading (ever) on October 13th. Readings take place in a little spot on the Downtown Mall called the Tea Bazaar. The poets and fiction writers drink tea, wine, and beer, sit on pillows, ocassionally smoke from a hookah and laugh at each other’s hilarious introductions. And sometimes we hyperventilate when the work is really good. Each week a poet and a fiction writer read their work for 20-30 minutes each. I’ve written two new poems so far, so my reading will mostly consist of older work. It’s nice to write again after a long dry spell. It’s coming very naturally, which is a nice surprise. I may need some test readers before I submit to workshop, so let me know if any of you are interested.
I’m also learning Quark! The dreaded software program that appears as a requirement or recommendation for nearly every publishing job in the universe.
Wedding:
Ring -
We finally found a new ring setting! Some of you may have known that when Brian and I became engaged, he gave me my mother’s diamond ring. We decided (with my father’s blessing) to reset the diamond. This will be its 3rd setting, so we don’t feel too guilty
It makes my finger feel pretty.
Location
Would be cool in the rain.
Jewel Box! We visited in July and just fell in love. It’s already full of flowers, what more could we want? And it smells so incredible, like spring all year round.
Date: October 10, 2009
We hired a wedding planner named Shayna. She’s just wonderful, and she’s going to keep me from going crazy. Planning a wedding from 750 miles away is pretty difficult.
We’re having some officiant trouble, unfortunately. It isn’t possible to find a rabbi to co-officiate a wedding during Shabbat, of course, so we’re going to have a big neutral ceremony and reception in St. Louis and then a smaller, religious ceremony in Charlottesville the next week, officiated by both a rabbi and a minister. This will allow our new friends in C-ville to be a part of one of our big days.
Oh, and did I mention I’m learning Hebrew? It’s been 4 weeks and I can already read it (!) I’m working on the vocab, mostly by having fake conversations with Whitaker if Brian isn’t around.
