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November 20, 2006

In other words, not for everyone, not for me. Adam and I are realizing that our marriage does not enjoy conferences. Well, to be honest, I am realizing that our marriage does not enjoy conferences and Adam is only slowly coming to terms with this.

Adam loves conferences. He gets an amazing amount of energy from lots of people and meetings and lectures. Sarah hates conferences. She gets incredibly exhausted when forced to be around a lot of people and attend lectures. Sarah feels as though she hears enough lectures in school and does not particularly want to spend her free time hearing more, academic though she still believes she is.

Aside from this objective difference in our personalities, we have also discovered that Adam tends to forget he’s married when he’s at conferences, which is awfully enjoyable for his wife. There are many examples from this weekend that could be cited, but our favorite is when Adam was introduced to someone’s wife, proceeded to introduce his two friends who were standing with him but failed to introduce his own wife who was standing next to him. Whoops. It’s been an interesting weekend for our marriage.

P.S. Do you like how Sarah sometimes writes in the third person and other times in the first person (albeit plural? Yeah, she does too, but she probably won’t do it anymore, so don’t worry if you don’t like it).

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