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jen mcgowan

the hempl project

Jen and I met as undergrads. I was working on a research project for professor richard w bailey and, I suspect, not making the kind of progress he'd hoped for.

He fished the smart girl out of a class I was taking and assigned her to help speed me along. instead, we two nerds fell madly in nerdly love and all progress on the hempl project promptly stopped.

you might do better to see what she has to say for herself.

8th April 1997, about 5:35pm

Kevin: (very nervous, voice shaking, produces ring from pocket) Will you marry me?
Jen: (no beats skipped, giant grin) Of course, silly!

26th September 1998, about 2:30pm

jen and I were married on september 26th 1998 and have remained thus pretty much every day since. I've always been a nerd and I used to be pretty fat -- I have no idea what Jen was thinking.