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I'm not so much with the updates lately, but I'm still alive and well. What's new?

I have started figuring out how to file taxes as a same-sex married couple. TurboTax is mostly up to the challenge, but I will have to enter all of our data twice if we want to do a joint state return. I'm getting stuck on the health insurance stuff because I can't figure out whether Kelly's school reported it properly. If I were smart, I would have found an accountant.

In addition to income tax hell, I have also been dealing with property tax hell. Somerville still has our property assessed as a single-family even though it's a two-unit condominium. We are supposed to split the property tax with the upstairs neighbors based on our percentage shares of the property, but their lender keeps paying the entire bill even though they ask them not to. This screws things up in a major way, but we'll get assessed separately in July and then everything should run more smoothly.

Kelly has officially been accepted into the Educational Leadership program at Simmons. She's going to start classes this summer. It's going to be a busy couple of years, but it'll be worth it. Someday, she'll be running a high school and I bet she'll be really good at it.

My job is going okay. My team got moved out of our dingy, restroom-less first-floor space and now we have sunny cubicles on the fifth floor. The first day after we moved, I managed to lock the keys to my desk inside one of the drawers. Don't ask how that happened. Fortunately, office furniture keys are very interchangeable.

Speaking of work stuff, I need to say thank you to stevenredux. When I lost my job last year, he suggested that I take the opportunity to do some writing and offered to introduce me to an editor. That opportunity didn't pan out, but I had an article published on another web site a few weeks ago and I'm starting work on a second one. If I can get three or four things published this year, that will be a good start. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction, Steven.

Morgan Lechat is doing pretty well. We got his medication straightened out and he's been energetic lately so I'm optimistic that he's no longer starving. Kelly's going to take him to get weighed while she's on vacation this week.

Kelly and I are going to New Mexico to see danger_chick over Memorial Day weekend. That is going to be totally fun. We are also investigating some summer vacation options, but we can't plan anything definite yet.

Speaking of planning, our commitment ceremony is doomed. We nixed the last weekend in June because Kelly will be starting school and it's the week after my cousin's bar mitzvah. So we were thinking about Columbus Day weekend, but then I looked at the calendar and realized that it's the weekend between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. That's not a good weekend for a party. Since the high holidays are so late this year, we may have to find a random weekend in September. We haven't picked a Chinese restaurant yet either. We are so not the poster children for gay marriage.