ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

Tonight, since my boyfriend and I still have not settled on an official wedding date, we began doing some thinking about what might be a good day to do this thing. The date we currently use as an anniversary is August 7, which was a day during the summer before my junior year of high school on which we clumsily declared our love for one another. However, because August 7 is probably not a good choice because this year it falls on a Thursday, and while we had planned to have a simple JOP ceremony on a weekday, we figured Friday would be best for this. In a way this is kind of annoying, because by now August 7 is very easy to remember. Regardless, having it on a Friday seems like the best idea because it will be easier to schedule things with work, if nothing else. Also, I was hoping my sister-in-law might be available to go with us and be my witness and that would probably be easiest on a Friday.

So we began researching what might be a good day. Our research mainly consisted of reviewing the Wikipedia “on this day” pages to see what historical events occurred.

July 25 has almost nothing:

• Wyoming named a territory
• First transatlantic two way radio broadcast

August 1 was a pretty big winner:

• Octavian seizes Egypt
• Oxygen discovered, for real this time
• PLA founded
• First Jeep produced
• Last diary entry from Anne Frank
• University of Texas at Austin shooting
• Robert Todd Lincoln’s birthday
• Calamity Jane’s death

August 8 had a couple of interesting things but not that much going for it:

• Wright Bros first public flight
• The great train robbery
• General Lee tries to quit his job but Jeff Davis won’t let him
• Nixon does quit his job

August 22 has some interesting things, but not many:

• Teddy Roosevelt becomes first President to ride in a car
• Cadillac Motor Company founded
• Dorothy Parker’s birthday

August 29: worse than July 25 (Edit: suddenly better after comment)

• Oliver Wendall Holmes birthday
• Michael Jackson birthday
• Old roommate/next door neighbor birthday
  

Based on what we learned, it seems like August 1 is the most auspicious day for us to be married.  So we’ll see if that works out.  I don’t know that I will be able to take that day off from work, since we will be closing July then.