It’s amazing. I just got an e-mail from my aunt, who is my dad’s younger sister, saying that she already had her time off request approved for the last two weeks of March next year. What this means is that she will not only be able to attend my wedding, but she is actually planning to come. She’s really only made the effort to attend one of my cousins’ weddings, which was in San Francisco, so clearly very convenient for her. The other two weddings, which were in Las Vegas and then in New York, she did not show up for. In fact, she didn’t even RSVP “no” to either invitation. She simply never came. When asked after the fact why she wasn’t able to come, she said that she “had to work.”

I don’t know if I should be flattered that she’s actually making the effort to come to mine, or worried that she is coming and may make a scene.