As we wind down the waning days of 2009, yet another GVM stalwart bids farewell to the single life. It is with best wishes that GVM announces the engagement of NJAG to NJAD (non-Jewish attorney dude).

Though both parties have been very tight lipped with details, we have learned that the proposal did not take place in a bathroom, and that the ring was not subsequently returned.

GVM will no doubt mark 2009 as the year of engagements, as NJAG joins McGinley amongst the ranks of the betrothed. Taken together with the marriage of mister and misses trendy in 2008, the recent unification of Mr. and Mrs. McCampus, the nuptials of Mr. and Mrs. Gahannastan and the 1's LTR, it is the express wish of the GVM editorial staff (The Chancellor and AMG) that this Village wide fascination with coupling not carry over into 2010.

Kenny Chesney poses the lyrical question, "Maybe I'll settle down, get married, or stay single and stay free?"

I give my answer in the words of American Revolutionary General John Stark: "Live free or die."

-The Chancellor