The scenes that follow the question asked to me by the bride: “Do you think three kegs will be enough for the reception?”
(Fashion confession: Yes, I wore the same dress I wore to the last wedding. Oh, the shame. Yes, I wore nylons. Oh, the shame.)
Thanks to Marianne and Alissa for the photos.

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I’m off to Minnesota this morning for Jenny and Odeen’s wedding. These people are pretty special to me. I was there (well, in relative proximity) the moment they first laid eyes on each other at a journalism program orientation in 2003. They’ve been madly — OK, disgustingly — in love ever since. We all ended [...]

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Shivani, a good friend since high school, got married this weekend. Every detail was just stunning. I’m still in a trance.
Saturday was her mehndi celebration:

Gasp. She’s a princess. So gorgeous.

Me getting mehndi’d.

Shivani’s sister Kavita.
Then came the big day:

The crowd awaits the prince of the evening, Shivani’s now-hubby Raajan.

Now that’s a grand entrance.

During the ceremony.

The beautiful [...]

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Des, Alice and I went to watch Sex and the City tonight. I loved it very much and still feel all twirly inside. I wanted to squeeze someone’s hand when I saw the pretty dresses, but the person sitting next to me was Alice and she doesn’t like to be touched. Alice was also sitting [...]

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Tonight, Des and I sat on her bed and sifted through boxes of college photos, squealing with delight as we traded pile after pile. Our giddy chatter went something like this:
“Remember this guy?”
“Ew, gross!”
“Oh my God, what were we wearing?”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so … SKINNY!”
She let me [...]

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Another geektastic e-mail thread between my group of friends:
Friend 1: Anyone else get a bump in Gmail storage? I was at 75% usage of my 3GB. I have this now: You are currently using 2214 MB (53%) of your 4170 MB.
Me: Mine says this: You are currently using 1224 MB (28%) of your 4259 MB. [...]

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Me: We should do a night out with the girls.
Des: Yeah, we should.
Me: Friday?
Des: I can’t. I’m going camping with my roommates. Actually, girls night sounds fun. Maybe I’ll skip camping.
Me: Well, Matt’s also planning a movie night this Friday. I might want to go to that.
Des: That sounds fun, too. Let’s [...]

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I received an e-mail from my friend Jess today. She’s alive! She just completed her first week of boot camp in Rhode Island. Not the same type of boot camp that I sobbed through in Arizona, but REAL LIFE BOOT CAMP where there ain’t no money-back guarantees or free e-newsletters.
When Jess first told me that [...]

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Ever since I graduated college four years ago (holy crapoly!), I’ve noticed that while I’ve long shoved my textbooks into storage (except for “Conception To Birth” — there are some quality diagrams in there, I tell ya), almost all of my friends have continued their studies. This has become even more apparent now that everyone [...]

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More signs that you are a grownup: When you spend Memorial Day Weekend not at a drunken apartment balcony barbeque but at SeaWorld, holding onto a pen and methodologically checking off the must-see attractions on your map. And instead of throwing on a plastic trashbag and racing to Shamu’s Splash Zone, you and your friends [...]

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