Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. Therese and I were unionized by Judge Moser in a court
inghouse in Jersey City,
[1] with two last minute volunteers as witnesses. (I've just googled the judge. Nothing colorful came up, unless you can spin a tale about the ordinances governing apartment rentals.)
[2] The operation was planned and executed in the span of a week, if memory serves, which it doesn't always. No representatives from either side of the family were invited.
[3]We'd met at a former normal school in Ohio. "Normal Schools derive their name from the French phrase
ecole normale. These teacher-training institutions, the first of which was established in France by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1685, were intended to set a pattern, establish a 'norm' after which all other schools would be modeled."
[4] It had long since stopped specializing in churning out bricklayers
[5] by the time we got there.
The norm used to be you met someone, progressed to going steady, got engaged, then married.
[6] We never even dated. We just met and shacked up almost immediately.
Although at no point was ours a long distance relationship, this was our song:
[7]It probably had something to do with the fact that she wasn't from the States. That, and it's hard not to like a song by ELO.
[8]We moved away a long time ago,
[9] and only call America to talk to my widowed
[10] mother or Therese's widowed
[11] father, who ended up there too. (I'm afraid that might make it sound like they're now an item. They're not.)
Another norm not as norm as it used to be is that Therese took my name. Both of them, sort of: she called me
SAM (my initials) so much it permanently stuck.
[12]Feel like a number:
1.
A foreign country2.
Collins v. Albro3. Sounds harsh, but we saved ourselves a *lot* of
stress4. Just the sort of information footnotes are usually for
5.
Do you even need to click?6. Then
divorced and re
married6 part II. Can't have a post about love and marriage and not include
Love and
Marriage. Also
this and
this.7.
Chuck Eddy and Greil Marcus liked it too
8.
Just ask Randy (obligatory
follow-up for that)
9. And I used to
wear a helmet10.
My father's favourite song was
Stardust11.
Ira12.
Really...13. My middle name,
which I kept, is Andrew. Someone with that name recently registered. Wouldn't want there to be any
confusion.Bonus track:
Hi Rog!