White lace and promises -- a kiss for luck and we're on our way.

[raybear]

Apparently it's Let's-Marry-Raymond-Month, but no one told me. On Thanksgiving Day, someone at dinner noticed I was the only one not drinking and asked if I was mormon. I thought that was an interesting thought process. Later in conversation, someone mentioned that doctors in Utah are among the highest-paid in the nation, so I joked to Quincy that she should work there after she graduates since I'll be moving there because I'm mormon. Now we're in the process of selecting my other wives (and husbands) to live with us.

Today I went to the drugstore and on the walk back remembered Next Door Coworker craving Arby's yesterday and complaining that they don't deliver (they're on the other side of the block from us). So I called her and asked what she wanted, then picked it up for her. When I got back she said, "would [Lowenstein] mind if we got married? I'll call her and ask. 'I'm sorry, [Lowenstein], it's just that.....he brought my Arby's!'"

Also, the sign of a coffee mug being too large is when the coffee gets cold before you get to the bottom to finish. Or maybe I just can't drink it that fast. Not that I need a coffee mug the size of my head, but it was the only one clean in the office.

I'm on a crazy text messaging kick via livejournal. If you allow messaging through your info page, you're at risk.

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[raybear.livejournal.com]

I have several vague reasons for not drinking -- I'm cheap and don't like to spend money at bars, I only occasionally like the feeling of being drunk, my partner is sober and I like to be respectful of that by not smelling like liquor and being incapicitated when we're together, and I have hypoglycemic moments and drinking makes your blood sugar drop even more. But I don't "not drink" -- it's just that usually one or more of these factors is present in any situation causing me to abstain. But most people just assume I don't drink and will occasionally bend over backwards to accomodate me, which is what sometimes draws attention to the fact that I'm not drinking (and was the case at Thanksgiving dinner). So it is amusing when I might bust out and order a beer or a jack& coke, people look at me as if I might need an intervention, worried I've fallen off the wagon or something.