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( Saturday, Jan. 09, 2010 7:33 pm )

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I'm about to roast some cauliflower. I kind of hate it when people's facebook updates degenerate into these dinner oneupmanship competitions over who is using the most organic produce and the most Jamie at Home-type recipes. But I love produce, and I love Jamie at Home, and I'm looking forward to my cauliflower. I can't tell everybody but I can tell you.

Lately I've been troubled about the apocalypse. Stupidly, it all came about after reading a short story in a recent New Yorker, "Diary of an Interesting Year," which was about a 30-year-old woman in England post-apocalypse. The intense hardships terrify me, but even more than that, this story is all about how particularly vulnerable women are. It made me think for a long time afterwards, and I finally reasoned out a good bit about the gender stuff going on, but it still terrified me long and hard like a scary movies as a child. And then our power went out a few weeks later, and it reinforced how awful things would be without power, heat, readily available food.... I'm getting over it now. But please, bury me with it.

I think a lot about getting married, having a kid. I'm getting married in May. We're getting semi-counseled by Davy's childhood priest. We're doing some fun writing assignments for him so far. I think it's best to prepare for marriage somehow, although whether an elderly, single, celibate man is the best one to advise us is questionable. I came out to him as a Unitarian, but I should have said I was a Jew, as that grants you special dispensations as far as weddings outside the church are concerned. My mother is deeply uncomfortable with the whole Jesus concept, if that helps at all.... We were at my cousin's wedding, and she was like "Ugh, Church of the Resurrection, isn't that a bit tasteless..."

My brother is also getting married, to his 'childhood''sweetheart," i.e. someone from our hometown that he's been friends with since he was 13, although they've only just started dating.

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