Forever....For Ever

So basically, another member of Baylor College of Medicine's 'Minority Row' has done got herself hitched. Tamisha and her beau Cleveland finally tied the knot. Not to anyone's surprise of course, but is amazing how that sinister and elusive pressure to get married comes up. As a young intelligent and eligible bachelor, the concept of 'until death do us part' is as scary as it is incomprehensible. But yesterday, the bachelor's paradigm of lifelong commitment to was affronted by the vows of Tamisha and Cleveland. As they relate their vows to an audience of their friends and family, scary melts to hypnotically inviting and incomprehensible to perfectly logical.

At least for a moment.

Then came the reception


Perhaps it was the open bar's devil-water or simply a flush of neurotransmitters courtesy of the amazing steak, but a room full of gorgeous (albeit a bit forlorn) women itching and able to do the electric slide certainly became the moth to a flame. One particular woman caught my attention. Via the obiquitous black folk grapevine I found out she was in fact Tamisha's old roomate at Berkeley. Given my knowlege of Tamisha, I'm sure if the got along so well in the Sunshine State that she'd fly to Tamisha's wedding she must be cool. Add a very feminine fit and finish and a nice Chinese character adorning an attractive shoulder and you'll need is a big 'I'm a Democrat' sign to make a young Maryland bachelor mad. Or rather I should say she was a bit mad. Not mad in the poor Southern Christian voting for the big-business Republican Party sense, but in the any movie that Samuel L. Jackson has starred in mad. I got the distinct impression she had been man-hurt in the past and was not looking to mingle. Sarcasm abounded, and even the common courtesy of the benefit of the doubt was painfully absent. Besides this of course, she didn't like Washington, DC which is reason enough to abruptly halt conversation. No matter however; I had extra cake and I was looking exceptionally man-pretty that day. In any case Minority Row led in a particularly vigorous Electric Slide much to the delight of many a wedding attendee.

Still ready to mingle.