Wedding blues

Turns out non of my family (except my parents, of course) are coming to the wedding. Mostly they’ve supplied flimsy excuses, but some haven’t replied at all. I think it’s time to draw a line under my relationship with them. I thought we’d gotten past some issues (even if they were still a little unsure of how to treat us), but we’ve only had one congratulations. I’m not going to spend time with people who are clearly homophobic, to the point of not recognising Raine and me as a couple. This makes our wedding party tiny, since we decided to invite only close friends and family – we have 12 people, including ourselves! We have to speak to our reception hosts, to check that they’re going to be ok going ahead with so few people.

We’re all booked for our honeymoon in Newquay. We’re going for a week, and we can’t wait! We’ve got a great hotel booked. We’ll be having some surfing lessons. Got quite a few things planned, including some surprises for Raine – because it’s her birthday on the day we get married, and I don’t want her to feel like she hasn’t had a birthday (although what could possibly be a better present than me?;-)).

I’m back working full time at LUSU (the Students’ Union). Julie, my boss, has six weeks off in the summer, so I have her job. It’s ok, can be a little dull at times – there’s not that much going on in the summer, but when it comes down to it I do really enjoy it, and I’m lucky to have it. I’ll be leaving in September, though. I’ve been offered a job in the library, it’s a lot better paid, and the conditions compared to LUSU are incomparable – I mean, I get holidays, and sick pay! Plus, you know, I get to work in a library – I love libraries. When I saw ‘Sex and The City’ the movie, and Carrie was going to get married in the library I was sold…unfortunately I don’t think any libraries round here are grand, or have a marriage license...

I’ve been trying to pick my MA courses. There’s not so much I want to take in the RS department, but I’ve found a few courses elsewhere to take. There’s a politics course, a sociology one, and a linguistics one. I’ll have to pick two out of the three, I’ll probably drop the linguistics one…although it sounds ideal (it’s about how different genders, ethnicities and classes interpret and understand language) the Linguistics Department seem to be uncertain about my eligibility.

A couple of weeks ago we went to Milton Keynes with my dad. We met up with Paul, and went to see Nanci Griffith. Great show. Hopefully we’ll all be going to Belfast in February, for the Belfast/Nashville festival. Always good fun, and the shows are great.