I haven’t decided how I feel about it yet. It is very very different from what I used to do, so let’s just leave it at that.

Aaron, Xandy and Neely are doing great. I’m still living in Charlottesville, VA.  The commute isn’t the best, but others at work have a long commute, and they don’t complain so I don’t want to too much either.

My wedding site is up in a skeleton form, the big day is November 6th. I am gladly taking recommendations for photographers, but venue, caterer, and cupcake-maker are pretty much nailed down.

Aaron was best man — his speech was, shall we say, ’short and sweet.’ The Inn was pretty nice, and I’ll have to say it was really awesome that the weather cooperated since this was (unknown to me!) an outdoor wedding! We stayed at the BWI Hilton, which was a nice hotel. An extra plus was that one of the channels on the TV was ESPN HD. This amused me greatly, as College Gameday was at Oregon and I swear you could see every bead of fog in the air.

Oh, right the wedding. :) It was really nice. Congratulations Tim and Robin!

I’ve also given up on RSS feeds because I have my own live (human) versions (at both work and home) that pepper me with interesting information so I never even have to read the internet-tubes anymore. I love it! Let’s not forget the lost art of conversation in this day and age.

Charlottesville has been ok so far, and the weather has been really nice.  Being here does remind me of how annoying undergrads are — this is, of course, a blanket statement.  Some undergrads are perfectly nice.  But some (like the ones that park illegally in our already overcrowded parking lot) are not.

To buy stamps you have to ’sign in’ so I created a new user account. However, when I pressed the Submit button, I got one of these (actual screenshot):

Anyway, here is where my sister matched:

Look familiar? CONGRATULATIONS CHRIS!!

Anyway, a few of the rules involve drinking when the President says a particular word or phrase.  If you’re interested in seeing how many drinks you should have taken based on words, this handy little tool from the NY Times site will help you out.  It counts how many times the president says certain words, and compares them across all other State of the Union addresses he has made.  Nifty!

WiiKitty.com is a concept that began at the launch of the Wii™ with a ridiculous picture taken on Emily’s camera phone. What began as a message board phenomenon birthed the site that stands before you.

Of course, the only reason I mention this is I love kitties and I love my Wii. I tried to take Wii related pictures with both of my cats, but so far, only Xandy (Alexander) has made the cut to be a WiiKitty! Follow the links below to see Xandy! He managed to make it onto the site three times — wow!

• Xandy hunts the Wii Remote.
• Xandy’s sleepy.
• Numchuck Power

You can also take a look at my twin sister’s cats Tobie and Ian (Li’l Orange). All of the pictures I took can be found here. I only sent in what I thought were the best five.

Sadly enough, a woman was killed trying to cross Highway 4 after a minor car accident, at least according to the Contra Costa Times. What would possess her to try to cross three lanes of traffic moving an average of 60 mph is really beyond me.

So, our ETA in Berkeley at 7 PM was grossly mistaken and I didn’t get to see Keen at all, which was a real bummer. I ended up going straight to the Oakland airport, getting there at 9:30 (had to stop at the In N’ Out for a quick dinner). My flight was at 11 PM. I can only imagine what would have happened if I left my parents place later than 6 PM. Apparantly the highway was closed for eight hours.

Turns out it didn’t matter that I got to the airport on time because my flight was delayed by an hour anyway. The JetBlue flight to JFK that left from the gate I was waiting at never took off. They sat on the runway for 2 hours before deplaning right before the Dulles flight was going to board. So they had to move the JFK plane to another gate, but they had already told all of the passengers waiting for Washington Dulles to move to another gate. We all got called back but ended up waiting for luggage after we had boarded. I guess we were in the air at around midnight CA time. I didn’t bother staying awake because the guy sitting next to me looked like the chatty type. I wasn’t in the mood to chat, if you know what I mean.

I opened up my bleary eyes at 8 AM, EST after a few hours of sleep. I had a short debate with myself as to if I should go to work, but I decided I wouldn’t be that productive … Turns out my sisters didn’t fare much better in the travel department. As I was driving hom from the airport, I got a call from my older sister who said she finally made it back home after at 16 hour train + bus ride. Then my twin sister called me to tell me she had to divert to another highway (because of snow in Southern California — very weird) and then had to divert again because of a bad accident, which made her usual 8 hour trip into a 12 hour trip. Yippee.

But at least I didn’t lose my luggage.