Alaska and Marriage

I have a friend who is applying to teach in Alaska. When I first heard about it images off the show Deadliest Catch flashed in my mind and I saw her working in a tiny harbor town with the rough necks from the show. She's actually going to be in the Southern part close to British Columbia, still cool, but not nearly as exciting.


Oh and she's engaged too, and her brother is, and friends of her brother are already married, and all my friends are married and already having kids and it got my thinking, have I missed the wedding boat?

I'm 28 and it seems that most people have at least snagged the guy they want to marry by that time and have begun to beat them into submission to force an engagement. A statement I've heard a few times from several guys in various versions is, "when we get married she'll settle down" or "it'll be better when we are married". Yeah, nothing changed for them the poor dudes.


Honestly though, I come from a family that had a lot of women in it that never got married, mostly because of World War 2 and there weren't any men left, that and these women were picky as hell. But I don't see it as a fault that I'm not hooked to someone right now.

In fact I think it's a good thing with the failing economy, as an arts education teacher, my job is the first to go. Already my position has changed every year since I moved to Las Vegas and next year I'm half time at the current school I work in and half time wherever they stick me. To keep from freaking out about it I've been overly positive about the whole thing. I tell myself it'll be an adventure, I get to take a mental break from school during my daily commute to another work place, I get to know twice the kids, I get to work on twice the repertoire and that will make me a better conductor and other such happy thoughts. And by saying all these things I can block out, at least for a while, that nagging voice that tells me I have 1 more year in this place before they take my job away completely because contracts are up in 2010 and mine may not be picked up.


Yes, they can do that.


So for that reason, it's good to be single and childless because taking care of and moving 1 person is much simpler than moving a family and looking for 2 new jobs instead of one.

Do I wonder if it will happen? Sometimes, and I'm such a forward thinker I already have the whole thing planned, I just need a guy who's good looking and thinks I'm the cat's pajamas, the bees knees, and pretty great overall.

I would also like it if he was a millionaire, and I really don't think that's too much to ask:)