FAQ Re: This Past Week
October 22, 2006 | Filed Under Blog |It’s the “cranky feminist” edition of joyous announcements!
1. I’m not changing my name.
2. He’s not changing his name.
3. I think I know how I want to deal with the kinyan problem, but no, I’m not saying.
4. I’m thrilled to get hugs and mazel tovs but
5. Can we keep heterosexual privelige factor to a minimum?
6. (It’s the marriage, not the wedding, stupid.)
7. I dunno in which country we’re having it yet.
8. It’ll probably be pretty small and intimate, wherever it winds up being.
9. So please don’t be hurt re: guest list stuff. It’s so not personal. We’re not inviting hardly anybody, except, you know, my grandma.
10. Yes, we’re going to be back in the U.S. next year so that I can finish (God willing) rabbinical school.
11. No, I don’t know what happens after that.
12. There is no Number Twelve.
13. Even if I might not sound like it in this list, I’m actually really thrilled
14. and am SO going to paint my toenails sparkley silver for the occasion.
Maybe you didn’t even know that I was with somebody? Even though I’m the type that blogs about the silly mundania of my life, I’m still a fairly private person, in my way. Anyway, we’ve been together for two-ish years now and he’s wonderful, silly, loving, kind, brilliant, funny, and better to me than I probably deserve. I’m deeply smitten and extremely happy, which is all a girl could ask for.
There probably isn’t going to be a lot about him on the blog to come, but now maybe occasionally I’ll use first person plural instead of first person singular if I’m talking about, I dunno, something relevant.
Yippee! Mazal tov! This is much more fun than comparing challa recipes
Comment by Simon — October 22, 2006 #
Mazel tov! What a lovely surprise on a Sunday morning… Congratulations and all best wishes -
Not sure what heterosexual privilege is, but it sounds bad in the good way
Comment by Dan — October 22, 2006 #
Mazal Tov!
Comment by sarah b — October 22, 2006 #
Mazel tov on the upcoming sparkly silver toenails! And, y’know, on the other stuff, too.
Comment by Marnie — October 22, 2006 #
Mazel Tov, Danya. And I totally mean that in a non-icky hetero-privilege way.
Comment by Sarah Horowitz — October 22, 2006 #
Congratulations! Well, yes, I didn’t know you were with someone (I guess you’re a tad more private than me, with my breastfeeding info and all).
No one’s getting bought? Bo-ring. Sparkly silver, well, that’s a relief.
Please say YOU proposed.
Comment by Koonj — October 22, 2006 #
mazal tov!
Comment by rebecca m — October 23, 2006 #
MAZAL TOV! (Or is it “Besha’ah Tovah”?) Great to hear it.
But . . . ikar chaser min hasefer. How about saying, “I’m engaged!”
You sound here like the genie from Disney’s Aladdin: “There are a few provisos, a couple of quid pro quos…” (www.meeko.org/disney/aladdin/script.html)
Is this what happens by having a chavruta in Talmud?
Comment by Uri Cohen — October 23, 2006 #
Uri Cohen Says:
“MAZAL TOV! (Or is it “Besha’ah Tovah”?) Great to hear it.
But . . . ikar chaser min hasefer. How about saying, “I’m engaged!”
You sound here like the genie from Disney’s Aladdin: “There are a few provisos, a couple of quid pro quos…” (
Is this what happens by having a chavruta in Talmud”
What? Couldn’t you figure it out? IMO, the rabbis would be very pleased with her turn of phrase!
All the blessings of life upon you both, chabiba.
Comment by Kol Ra'ash Gadol — October 23, 2006 #
mazel tov!
and as someone with six months to go before her big queer feminist quaker wedding…good luck. (and also, don’t let anyone start you planning before you are ready to plan. honestly, the number of people i see who join wedding planning communities within six hours of being engaged. sheesh, enjoy it first.)
Comment by Emily — October 23, 2006 #
Mazal tov!!!
I wish you every happiness, and I hope your marriage is as glorious and sweet a partnership as can be.
Also, I totally support sparkly silver toenails, at any time, but maybe especially at a time like this.
YAY!
Comment by Rachel — October 23, 2006 #
Hey, everybody–
Thanks for all the mazel toving! I’m pretty pleased, myself, over here.
xoxoxox
d
Comment by danya — October 24, 2006 #
מזל טוב
Comment by amechad — October 25, 2006 #
mazal tov and mabrouk!
Comment by Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) — October 26, 2006 #
Mazal tov!!! So that’s what you’ve been up to since Kol Zimrah.
Comment by dede — October 31, 2006 #