1) In the first hour or so of the year, as Annette and I celebrated at our local gaybar-cum-Chinese restaurant,* I suggested that 2012 is the year in which we should make it legal. She agreed. We are happy. Details regarding the wedding are completely up in the air, though Los Angeles is the likeliest location.
1)a: squee.
2) At about the same time I became not-employed by the Desert Protective Council, by my choice. The DPC ate up about 1/2 my time and about 5/3 of my emotional energy, so it was a necessary decision. Nonetheless, the money that came in as a result of the job was, for the last three or four months, just enough to keep us from sliding farther into debt. I need to replace that. Therefore, the job hunt starts now. I’m accepting offers of employment either piecemeal-short-term editing and web design jobs, as well as leads for longer term payrolly kinda deals. Also, if you’ve been putting off tossing a five-spot into the ol’ PayPal jar, or buying a copy of the Zeke book, now would be an okay time for that.
3) In the meantime, I am pleased to announce that Desert Biodiversity has a website, and we are busily assembling an impressive Board of Advisors and will subsequently apply to some 501(c)3 for non-profit status. You can check out the site, sign up, and even toss some cash in toward expenses if you like. (Of course since we’re not a 501 (c)3 yet any donations are not tax-deductible. But they will be much appreciated, and help keep my current cash flow problems from stunting the organization’s growth.)
I’ll have more news on Desert Biodiversity here shortly. Even with a full-time job search I’ll still end up having more time and emotional energy now that I’ve left that job referenced up there.
Oh, and confidential to Sven DiMilo: tried to send you email. Don’t know if I have a good address for you. Ping me if you didn’t get it. Thanks.
* The gaybar-cum-Chinese restaurant is, naturally, called “Wang’s.”
1) Big grats!
2) Know what you mean about the 5/3 emotional energy.
3) Cool!
What a relief. I got to the end of that first sentence and was afraid the “make it legal” part meant you were going to become gay and Annette was going to become Chinese.
Places to get married: The Desert. Lake Tahoe. Yosemite. Purple Lake in the Eastern Sierra. Mono Lake. Area 51. Reno. Travertine Hot Springs near Bridgeport, California. Sedona, Arizona. Phantom Ranch, Grand Canyon.
you were going to become gay and Annette was going to become Chinese.
Based on who each of us has hung out with over the last couple decades it would probably be the other way around.
All the best to you and Annette, Chris.
Congrats to you both! :)
Mazel tov, Annette and Chris and the whole sweet menagerie of your today and later family.
If it’s in LA, might it be at the La Brea Tar Pits? Not that its recreation of a tar-trapped and dying mastodon ought be indicative of marriage or anything… I just love the bubbling weirdness of that site more than nearly anything in the area. And it seems so perfectly apocalyptic.