I would be remiss if I didn't take a moment to mention the marriage of Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan. I feel as though a lot of people feel connected to these two in some way, and I include myself in that group, but that's not why I'm writing about it. I'm writing because, as a point of personal validation, this marriage finally resolves questions I had for over a year that no one else was asking and that I felt inappropriate to ask myself.
When I started reading Kottke.org, Jason was already dating Meg and I read about their story in the past-tense from his archives. Much like Dean Allen and Gail Armstrong, theirs is a story of the internet connecting two people who would likely never had met without it, and fell in love, you get it, thingsworkedout. But then, a while back, Jason and Meg seemed to be on the outs—Meg was living outside of NYC and Jason was still here and there was a long stretch where I could feel tension in their personal writing (is that even possible?), and I felt like I wanted to ask if they were still together. I don't know why it mattered to me, but it did. And for a long while. I felt like the original weblog couple had split and that mattered, but no one was saying anything about it.
Hell, I even asked Shawn once, at a bar, on a Friday night, what he thought about it. Needless to say, he was a bit surprised at the subject of my query and mentioned that maybe once, in passing, he had noticed that they seemed to be separated. And so I gave up thinking about it, assuming things were done and that was that. Then, last fall, they suddenly started talking like they were a couple again. And in November, Meg wrote that she and Jason were engaged.
Last week, they married here in NYC, and there are plenty of pictures to prove it (taken by Eliot Shepard, which adds to the whole thing if you ask me). This post is horrifying, I know, but I felt like I needed to record my feelings on the subject, so here they are: I'm really happy it worked out for them and I wish them the best of luck. Internet and weblogs aside, it comes down to the simple fact that I got a chance to watch these people the past few years and it's nice to know there's a happy ending there. Relationships are hard and life is hard, and it's all hard and for something like this to happen and to work is good shit, to put it plainly.
I'm such a little girl.