RSVPs

Now that the wedding is barely a month away (eeks!), we've received nearly all our RSVPs. Lots of people wrote nice little notes, but a few were just so exceptional I wanted to share them:

 

(This in reference to this post - and we do still need a Moon Conductor, come to think of it)

We also had a few people get creative with the "M_______" line, for example:

We mentioned this trend to an as-yet-un-RSVPed friend, and a few days later got this in the mail:

I'm not usually sentimental about stuff, but I think I'm going to hold on to these for awhile...

Jury Duty

I had jury duty a few months ago, and was put on a case that lasted a week. I thought I would write about it here because I was sure it would be the height of ridiculousness, but it ended up being a surprisingly emotional experience. I did eventually write down some reflections on what happened, mostly as a form of catharsis, but hesitated to post anything here because it is so different than the silly stuff I usually share. But I recently ran into one of the other jurors on the train, which has me thinking about everything that happened again, and I am also currently reading The New Jim Crow, which has me thinking a lot about my former students and my work in general, so I have decided to share my experience with a (very slightly) broader audience.