{"id":1326,"date":"2002-08-21T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/08\/crimson-sucks.html"},"modified":"2002-08-21T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-21T22:19:00","slug":"crimson-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/08\/crimson-sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight was an HBS<\/a> happy hour at Spangler<\/a>, the most ostentatious student center ever created. The happy hour was fine, met some lovely people. Met some of the partners (read: wives; I met not a single boyfriend\/husband who would be staying in Boston) who told me I had to join the Partners Club<\/a>. So I checked it out. $125 for two years, so that I can make friends, too. Gee, they even have a day when we get a case and a professor comes and discusses it with us as if we were real<\/i> HBS students! The application form asks where I went to college (no mention of grad school, but then what’s the point of grad school when all these lovely women already have their M.R.S. degrees) and I get to choose from a list of hobbies. Yes, running and biking are on there. My other choices? Scrapbooking, Quilting, Knitting, Dancing, Cooking. I got a packet of information. Apparently, grammar and spelling–and even spell check–are optional for partners: “HERE ARE A FEW RESTAUARANT RECCOMMENDATIONS FROM PARTNERS THEMSELVES.” I kid you not. I asked Adam if his student package included a list of local grocery stores. He laughed. “Um, no!” Because the partners’ packets did.<\/p>\n

The word “wife” has been banished from Adam’s vocabulary. I’m having a mild identity crisis here. Back home, I was a writer, an Amazonian, a board member, a runner, a biker, and a KAG among other things. Oh, yeah, and Adam was my boyfriend and then husband. But here, here I am few of these things. Yes, I’m a writer (“So where do you write right now? Oh, nowhere? Ah, I see”) and I am unemployed (not an identity I plan to embrace). And, oh, yes, I’m Adam’s wife. That’s how people know me here. “Oh, you’re Adam’s wife.” I already have issues with the fact that everyone assumes my last name is Medros. After telling Adam about this little crisis of mine he made the mistake tonight of saying to someone, “My wife loves sushi.” An innocuous statement, yes. A true statement, yes. A statement made with pride and love (I know he adores being married). But mere seconds after it came out of his mouth he saw my glare and instantly knew his mistake. He is now forbidden to refer to me as his wife in any circumstance. He can be my husband all he wants, but I shall not be “wife.” My name is Jenny Brown. Everyone now: Jenny Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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