Why is Everyone Getting Married?

All these random weddings are occuring...............................

1) My exboyfriend Kevin's brother Chris got married about a month ago back home... not that it was all that unexpected, since he has a kid with his wife and they've been together for a couple years

2) My friend from Winona, Emily, got married to her boyfriend Curtis, who she just got together with last year. It was a little drama because Curtis is one of her exboyfriend/high school sweetheart Justin's best friends. Of course, they both no longer talk to Justin................................ but they ran off to Fiji and got married apparently...

3) My best friend Lori went to Minnesota for her brother's wedding, to our friend Heidi's little sister... also expected but what wasn't expected was that LORI's boyfriend Steve asked her parents for permission.............. especially since up until then they were sleeping in separate beds because Steve needed to think about stuff.. but no ring yet... still exciting news!

4) My man-about-town friend James from London is also engaged!!! He emailed me to tell me about it when I sent out the I'm-moving email.. wonder if he's going to cheat on his wife like he cheated on his gf........ but I have a feeling that might change things, so way to go J!

Holy moly... and of course Jennifer Wilbanks from GA is still getting married... I feel so sorry for that girl. Someone from Madison pulled that I'm kidnapped thing. I say, let her pay for whatever the police search cost, give her some therapy, and leave them alone.

But that's what everybody needs, right? Therapy and to be allowed to get their business their business.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Walking out of my building today to get lunch, the security guard not ONLY nodded at me, but also said hi to me - WITH MY NAME! I didn't even think he KNEW my name! Odd... And then, this popped in my head....

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name.
You wanna go where people know, people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows your name.
You want to go where people know, people are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name.

Normally, NYC is not that place. I think that's why people back home were all crazy NOT to come here. But I realized - A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ME, especially since I haven't really been here all that long. A lot of them I know SHOULD know me, like work colleagues and Todd's roommates, and people at school but this is a list of kind of weird people who know me (by name or by habit - like, there's the girl that waits to wax her eyebrows):

1. The kind-of-creepy but totally gay Polish guy at Diva Salon in Bklyn Heights
2. The salad guys at Bagelfeller
3. The coffee lady at Cranberrys (thanks to my loudmouth, she also knows i'm moving..) - this could pretty much be expanded to everyone at Cranberrys who has worked there longer than two weeks
4. Melissa, the maybe-lesbian that USED to work at Cranberrys and now works at the BBQ down the street
5. Random security guards who know me because my boss is one of the few beautiful black women in the building
6. The guy who hands out AM New York and METRO at the 50th St C/E station

Maybe I should switch up my routine..........................