My longtime friend Cathy Polinsky will be attending the wedding as a bridesmaid. Cathy and I met at Swarthmore where we lived in the same dorm (Mary Lyons), and shared Computer Science courses together. After graduation, Cathy moved out to Seattle to work at Amazon and to be my housemate.

Cathy is originally from Pittsburgh, but is living in the Bay Area now. She has run a marathon, was on the varsity swim team at Swarthmore, and manages a Search Optimization team at Yahoo!.

Cathy will be escorted by her husband Russell Belfer. I was at their wedding 2 summers ago. Russell and Cathy met at Amazon in the exact same way that Alex and I met -- in an interview. That's right, Cathy and I were both hired by our future husbands.