OCTOBER 10, 2003. That is the wedding date, all confirmed and circled on the calendar now. So you can put it on yours. It's a Friday, will be a full moon, which is supposed to be good luck. The site is Paku Mountain, in the town of Tairua. It looks a little sumpthin' like this. Yup.

Booked plane tickets today. Washington to Atlanta to San Francisco to Seoul, South Korea, to Auckland, New Zealand, on the way there. Auckland to Seoul to Los Angeles to Atlanta to Washington on the way back. Gonna be an adventure, all right.

In other news, Geoffrey's baby brother Nick is coming today to spend a few days with us. We will show him a rip-roarin' good time. Unfortunately the good times will be had in craptacular weather, cold, rainy, foggy. But I'm sure we can find plenty o' trouble anyway. Always a good time when there are Chandlers around.

My friend Steph is leaving Stripes tomorrow, we're having a big ol' party for her Thursday night at an Irish pub downtown. We made a going-away page for her (which she doesn't know yet, so if you're a Stripes worker reading this, keep your yam shut 'til Thursday about it), very fun. Journalism is even more of a fun job when you get to make up stuff. :) Anyway, shout-out to Steph and good luck in the new job. Not that she reads this, but I'm sure she'll have a warm fuzzy feeling without knowing why. She'll just chalk it up to the beer, most likely.

LISTENING TO: Not TIM EASTON or THE JAYHAWKS, as I am going to a concert of theirs tonight, and everybody knows you are not allowed to listen to a band on the day you are going to their concert. The new LUCINDA WILLIAMS comes out today, probably will take a trip to get that in a little while here, yessir.