…my extremely cute and charismatic guitar teacher, on whom I have had a ridiculous schoolgirl crush for the past 2 years, is engaged!
(not that I ever thought he and I would be an item, because Lord knows he has quite enough groupies, but still, a girl’s gotta have fantasies. Especially about musicians.)
I am, at the same time, happy for him, and yet despondent. OK, maybe despondent is too strong a word, but well, something deep in my gut remembers all the times he’s flirted, or had the class do one of my requests, or made small talk about entirely unrelated stuff, and wondered what might have happened, if only…
He’s an all-around super-nice guy, and a great teacher, and a wonderful and versatile musician (he plays everything from flamenco to classical guitar to folk to cutting-edge alternative to jazz) with one of those singing voices that just makes me feel mellow and squishy and want to hug people. My friend and classmate ran into him over the weekend with a woman who she described as beautiful, sweet, and down-to-earth, just the kind of woman we always pictured him with, the kind of woman who you want to hate and be jealous of because she’s too perfect, but somehow you just can’t hate her because she’s so darn nice. When he introduced her to my friend (who was with her longtime boyfriend at the time, by the way) as his fiancee, her heart just sank.
Just to give you an idea of this guy’s charisma, a year or so ago our whole class went out for a drink after a performance, and when the teacher mentioned that he’d just moved in with his girlfriend, every single woman in the class except for me and my friend dropped out. (We, of course, are in it for the music. Yeah, that’s it.)
So yeah, I’m happy for two really nice people who seem to be really happy together, but yep, part of me is pretty bummed, too. Oh well. Anyone know any nice, single musicians? 