Some of you know this already, but it seemed like time to make the public announcement:

fiddledragon and I are officially engaged!

I've been filking my way through the Jewish calendar for a while now, and am pleased to announce that I am finally (according to some interpretations) done! There are two groups of Jewish holidays which could each be viewed as a single extended holiday, and I've now got one song for each group (and for the other major holidays) but not for each ( Read more... )

After a brief visit, fiddledragon is now home. She did not go home at the end of said visit - it simply stopped being a visit. The new lease with both of our names on it, for us to sign and return, arrived in the mail today. We are very happy and slightly nervous about living together.

Last weekend, fiddledragon's father drove up from DC with a vanful of her stuff. ( Read more... )

I took fiddledragon to Morimoto last night as a graduation present. I had been to Morimoto before, for a snack, but I had been waiting for a special occasion that would justify the full Morimoto experience. We ordered the omakase (tasting menu), a parade of mouth-watering small dishes, each perfect ( Read more... )

It's been one of those weeks... inspirational... transformative... challenging ( Read more... )

was mostly spent hanging out with someone 300 miles away.

When I wasn't IMing with fiddledragon, I was filking or talking with tarkrai, folkmew, or bercilakslady. This was a very good con for open filking, with many excellent performers. The concerts were also wonderful - especially folkmew's, which spoke right to where I was, leading off with "Give Yourself to Love" and remaining perfect ( Read more... )

For fiddledragon.

I've been meaning to write this song for a very long time. I had even written parts of the introduction already. But it turns out that there's a very good reason it didn't get written until just now. My beloved fiddledragon, I hope you don't mind my comparing our relationship to a space station. It just... came out this way ( Read more... )

fiddledragon's and my friendship is now officially a Relationship.

You can read her account here.

Even as our friendship was deepening, we had talked about postponing the question of whether we were Together until we were living in the same city, but then there was the day at the Museum of Science - can we call that a date now? - and the growing closer and ( Read more... )

When fiddledragon and I decided officially that we were very good friends, we hadn't actually seen each other for five months. We spent some time together at Philcon, but I was pretty busy. But, in the past week, we spent essentially all our time together ( Read more... )

I guess it is fairly subtle...

( The Story )