sometimes i feel like carrie bradshaw

Like the other day, when one of my friends got engaged, and my co-worker and I were congratulating her. We're discussing weddings and colors and locations and rings, and I'm keeping up quite nicely. But soon the conversation goes a direction I can't follow, with comments like, "Well, what does your fiance think of this?" and "What would your boyfriend do about that?"

I don't even try to think of something to say, because I'm busy thinking to myself, "I wonder if this is how Carrie feels, in that episode where she goes to that party, and everyone is wondering why she is single... yep, I'm pretty sure she feels something like this."

It's a weird feeling. Not good or bad, just weird. But the great thing about that feeling is that mixed in with a touch of awkwardness and a dose of loneliness is the knowledge that Carrie is one chic, sophisticated lady, and I've decided I'm going to identify with that aspect of her character too.

And it's not like no one's proposing to me... just yesterday one of my students asked me to marry him. So I have prospects.