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Here's a photo that didn't make it into our wedding slideshow, but I thought I'd share anyway.

I totally had blocked this from my memory until Sarah sent this to me. Apparently my parents liked this photo enough that it made the "slideshow" cut. Not sure what they were thinking.

The dresses were made by a streamstress that we knew and my mom picked out the fabric...

...will post something of substance soon, I promise!

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One of the more fun moments of wedding planning is when you get to sit down and pull out the old childhood pictures for the slideshow. I've seen some pictures of Matt (and already know how dorky he is), but this picture cracks me up! Sarah, who's doing our slideshow, emailed me this pic after getting it from Matt's mom. Thanks Sarah!

Betcha didn't know Matt played soccer too. Be still my heart.

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This morning, I opened up my email and found this in my inbox:

Thank you for your registration.

Sorry, we regret to inform you that your registration to attend the Public Memorial Service for Michael Jackson was not selected.

Hundreds of thousands registered, but only a few can be in attendance.

SAD!!! Guess I'll be watching the memorial service like everyone else. It was worth a try

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So two days ago, I participated in a protest with my school (and others) called the "March of Mourning" to fight for pink-slipped teachers to save their jobs.

Some facts:

• over 50% of the teachers at my school might get laid off come June
• Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) just got a bunch of stimulus $$ -- half of it will be spent on saving teachers' jobs, but not all of it (which means a couple of thousand teachers might still lose their job in LAUSD)
• LAUSD could choose to spend ALL the stimulus $$ on saving jobs, but the board members are choosing to save some of the money to use for the year after (to save teachers' jobs and not further exacerbate the financial situation)

Anyway, the REAL point of this post was to tell you that MY SCHOOL WAS ON NATIONAL TV! AND MY COWORKERS! AND SOME OF THE STUDENTS AT JOHN LIECHTY MIDDLE SCHOOL! Though I fully participated in the march, I didn't make it on TV.

I've embedded the CBS Nightly News from today (April 29th) and if you scroll to minute 9:45, you'll see some footage from the protest and from some classrooms in our school. (You'll have to get through the commercial at the beginning first).

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I just don't understand what all the fuss over Twitter is about. Lately, it's been all over the news.

i.e. Kutcher Wins Twitter Battle

Oprah announces on Facebook that she joined Twitter

and even Obama has his own Twitter

Who cares what you're doing every ten minutes? I certainly don't want people to know what I'm doing or thinking all the time...which is why I never cared for Facebook status updates.

To me, Twitter is just a glorified AIM away message. Someone please explain to me what the big deal is.

The only good use I've seen from Twitter so far is from kogibbq, this Korean BBQ taco truck that goes to all these different locations around Southern California every couple of hours and tweets their new location so customers can come find them. I have yet to chase this truck down!

about 1 hour ago from text

(i kid i kid)

Secondly, Anoop Desai is still on American Idol! Go Noop Dog!! I secretly vote for him every week but sadly, I think his time is coming to an end. However, I'm prepared to move on once Anoop gets the boot.

I like Adam Lambert (and think he'll probably win), but I really really like Kris Allen. I'm gonna buy his CD when it comes out. Here's him singing "Falling Slowly" from the movie Once. SO AWESOME.