Totally random meme thing

It's called the Wiki Meme and I stole it off the internet at large. You go over to Wikipedia and enter your birthdate and then you pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occured on the day of your birthday.

(Oh, and I can't count, so, um, there are more events than there are supposed to be.)

May 9
Events:
1. 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
2. 1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. (Dude! No way!!)
3. 1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
4. 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves sale of the birth control pill.

Births:
1. 1942 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
2. 1949 - Billy Joel, American musician

Holiday:
Roman Empire – Feast of the Lemures (Unfortunately this is "Feast of the Lemures," which are unrestful ghosts, and not "Feast of the Lemurs," which would have just been wildly cool.)

LOTS of introspection.

The only problem with having gone to Kayla's wedding and having taken a bazillion pictures is that now I want to get married. This happened to me once in high school or freshman year of college--this marriage bug--and I actually signed up on a wedding planning site with a fake name, a fake groom name, and a date as far back as the site would allow, and then spent a week or so looking at dresses and flowers and cakes. It's tempting now to go do the same thing and start a file somewhere of what I eventually want my wedding to look like, but the very small part of my brain that has some sanity left is, thankfully, still resisting. *sigh*

At least my annoying internal biological clock is demanding marriage and not babies.

Anyway, below are some snippets of what I wrote last week in Utah (since I guess it turns out I already posted everything I wanted to about the cross-country drive). Some paragraphs are verbatim, some are reworked, and some are added completely new to actually give this post a feeling of coherency:

( Long, introspective, and rambly, with a little bit of religious comment thrown in for good measure. )