No, no, nobody proposed. Calm down, Mom.
It’s a much bigger deal than that.
Jen Schefft is engaged.
Seriously, I’m wandering around the Film.com offices this afternoon, and I walk into Laremy‘s office to have a very serious chat with him about how he doesn’t return my IMs promptly enough (“Was I away? Did you see an away message? Then I didn’t get the IM. Because I do other things sometimes besides sit at my desk in case you IM me.”).
Laremy shares an office with Pamela. As I’m berating Laremy, Pamela gasps. Like, loudly. We turn to look at her. She’s staring at her computer screen in disbelief, like CNN.com just reported that the entire Eastern seaboard fell into the ocean and the government was reconvening in the newly-coastal Kentucky.
“What is it?” I asked, now worried.
She looks at me wide-eyed. “Have you seen this? Jen Schefft is engaged!”
I gasp. “Oh my God!” I run to her computer, where she has this article on her screen. “No way!”
“I know!” she says. “I know.”
Laremy, of course, is now shaking his head. “I wish I had this moment recorded so that people could see what my daily life is like,” he says. “They’d send me money out of pity.” (By the way, you can PayPal cash to laremy@gmail.com if you’re so inclined.)
Anyway, Jen Schefft, perpetual bachelorette and author of Better Single Than Sorry, is engaged.
Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft is engaged to her boyfriend, Joe Waterman, she tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“I’m so excited and so happy,” says Schefft, 32.
The couple, who live in Chicago, met on a blind date in February. Their matchmaker: One of Schefft’s previous blind dates, with whom she didn’t click. “I figured I had to go out with Joe since I’d never been set up by someone I’d already gone on a date with,” she explains.
“We really get each other,” Schefft says of Waterman, 35, a trader. “I guess it’s true things move fast when you meet the right person.”
Congratulations, Jen. If it happened for you, I still have some hope for myself.
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