At the caterer’s place, working on the timeline
Caterer: “OK, so are you guys going to want to do the grand entrance?”
Me [exchanging confused glances with Beau]: “… Grand?”
Caterer: “You know, when everyone goes to sit down after the cocktail hour, and you kind of hold back for a minute, and then when everyone’s finally seated you walk in as the DJ announces, ‘Please welcome for the first time as husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. [Lastname]!’”
Me: “Oh. No. I guess not. I mean, I’m not taking his last name, so that wouldn’t work.”
Caterer [eyebrows shooting up]: “Ah ha ha! You guys are too funny.”
Me: “I mean, I guess we could say ‘Please welcome Lyn [Lastname] and Beau [Lastname]!’ But that’s kind of weird, because everyone already knows our names.”
Caterer: “OK!” [writing notes to self] “No… grand… entrance.”
Much later, at home
Beau: “So, you finally figured out that last name thing, eh?”
Me: “Yep.”
Beau: “When were you planning on filling me in?”
Me: “Whaaaat? I already told you. I’m sure I did.”
Beau: “Nope. News to me.”
Me: “I swear I told you. How did you not know? I mean, I tweeted about it.”
Beau: [gives me a look before dissolving into laughter]
Me: “Oh, shit.”
Hahaha! Oh man… thank goodness our office blocks Twitter… otherwise it would be a whole new level of Intrawebz addiction.
ah, so sad and so true! Like the other day when I was trying to find a certain paragraph in a 20 page paper and in my head I go “ctrl F!” but of course nothing happens and then I felt disappointed that I’d actually have to read/skim the entire thing. how i love/hate you technology.
Ok… other major tangent… did you guys see the NYT article on the “Singularity”? I didn’t read it all cuz its a mondo article and creeped me out really quick. But weird and interesting about how the matrix will soon be real (or something like that): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html
I’ve read about the singularity before, but not in the depth that the NYT article offers. MAN, it blows the mind! Technology is either killing us or helping us, or both.
Classic! That’s hilarious.
Hilarious! And definitely an issue. Yikes technology.
I think sometimes we still forget that as close as we are to our partners, they are not actually mind readers. And yes, this interweb stuff does change how we interact with the real world. We were just talking about how our first impulse when faced with any problem is to google it. Even if it’s not actually google-able.
Speaking of tweets (yours in particular re: vancouver island), high tea is lame. Ok I’ll admit I’ve never been because I’ve refused to fork over the $40 or something they charge you for it so it could actually be awesome. But probably not nearly as wonderful as kayaking in Ucluelet! Never been so you’ll have to tell me about it. But good choice: Victoria is a lovely place don’t get me wrong, but besides a couple of great restaurants there is not a ton to do. The untamed wilderness of the west coast of the island on the other hand is quite impressive and hard to come by elsewhere.
Oh, good point about google. I feel like I know way more about things than I did back in the pre-internet days, but I also feel like I know way more useless things than I used to. So, there’s that.
And yeah, we wanted to check out Victoria for at least a day, but we’re thinking that taking in the natural splendor on the west cost for one more day will be even more valuable. I’m so excited to see it!
This is great. And I’m REALLY glad to learn I’m not the only person this has happened to.
My takeaway from this: beau is awesome. With the name thing so fraught for everyone involved, I like how his emotional response was laughter about twitter communications.
Yeah, me too. ME TOO. He is one relaxed dude.
I actually laughed out loud at this one!
ha ha ha this is so great. Also, I love that the caterer said ‘you guys are too funny’ because your weren’t changing your name?!
That is fantastic. The grand entrance convo and the twitter issues. My wife has suddenly gotten obsessed with foursquare, and all day long my twitter feed is full of updates on where she is in traffic, where is is for her lunch break, where she went shopping on the way home. At the end of the day we have NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT! It’s very scary sometimes.
This made me laugh because we’ve had a couple of conversations like that, too.
haah… oh man. Although that’s hilarious, finding out through twitter about how my significant other was going to change (or not change) their name would have ruined my day.
Nerd alert:
I am excited to see The Singularity in our lifetime b/c I am CONVINCED I will get a job on the Starship Enterprise and befriend aliens and there will be peace and no disease or poverty.
Wait…not one else on here a major sci-fi Trek-loving nerd? Oh, I’m on the wrong blog?! Crap sorry!
Oh and PS: Dave REALLY wants a grand entrance. I am not taking his last name (or maybe slapping it on the end of mine, if he makes mine his middle = FirstName GretchensLast DavesLast will be our full names. No hyphen.).
No clue how it’ll work w/ two last names. I think something like “And now I’d like to introduce the newlyweds, please help me welcome Gretchen & Dave!”. No last name. I agree it’s a bit dumb b/c everyone knows our names but he cares about this so we are doing it.