Musical Chairs
Somewhere, some invisible music has stopped, and everyone and their mom is suddenly getting married. The latest to go is the incomparable Bin (warning: link goes straight into the past), who just called me to announce her engagement to Paul. I guess I’d better join some frequent-flyer clubs and dust off my purple velvet suit, because I’m going to be busy with weddings for the next couple years. I think the narrative of my youthful life has now moved firmly into its epilogue.
While looking for that link, I came across the ghost of my old website–though my spiffy late-90’s design has been preserved, my bad student writing has fortunately been lost in the sands of time. Some of my other college friends’ sites have been caught in the amber as well–while my own design sense has clearly devolved since then, Nick’s has certainly matured a bit.
May 30th, 2003 at 10:04 am
Fear not. If statistics hold, 49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce, and re-enter the narrative of youth (in a somewhat more creaky way).
In other depressing news,
http://web.archive.org/web/19970124154801/latifundium.res.cmu.edu/~higgins/
Is archived from 1997, but the original design is circa early ‘94 (with fancy updates like image alignment and image maps as the technology became available). I appear to have become either busy or bored around 1996. My design sense has no doubt matured since then, but my design capacity probably hasn’t… check the reference to Mosaic!
May 30th, 2003 at 7:00 pm
…49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce…
But here’s a cheery fact: I read somewhere that the longer men wait to get married, the less likely they are to have their wives divorce them. Male critters typically seek “health” in a mate, while female critters screen contenders for “status.” And people tend to increase in social status as they get older.
Sure enough–according to that article, anyway–men tend to leave women for healthier partners (young, spunky types); women leave men for higher-status partners (suits, drug dealers). So, up to a point, time increases a man’s odds.