ok, i know i wrote about this before, but i just thought about it again…
well, i was thinking about it mostly because i got back from running around the neighborhood and was sitting at my kitchen table all hot and sweaty, so as i’m sucking down a bottle of water i fire up firefox and start reading the livejournals, xangas, blogs, etc. of my friends and people i haven’t seen in ages. through a few people’s blogs, i’ve rediscovered friends of mine i made back in college who, sadly enough, i’ve forgotten about in the last 5 years.
when i was in seattle two weeks ago, jon, teresa and i got together with bre for dinner out on the waterfront. to say i was looking forward to seeing her was an understatement; it had been almost 8 years since the last time we saw each other. she looked just as cute as i remember and she certainly has her life in order, which makes me happy. saying that things were looking gloom back then would have been an understatement for sure. we were hoping to get together with juliya, who again i probably haven’t seen in 7 years, but she was going down to portland for the weekend.
(yes, i realize that i haven’t talked about any of my trips in the last month)
it makes me kind of sad to see how quickly you can lose touch with friends. it used to be that when we were younger, two days would have been a long time not to see someone. you saw them at school, you saw them after school and sometimes you saw them on the weekend. summer vacation was weird, but you still pretty much saw everyone on a regular basis. then you leave for college and while you see your college friends even more than you did your high school ones, time passes by so quickly that by the time you see them during winter break, it doesn’t seem that long. pretty soon after a few years, when you do see them you say your hellos, how are you doing, where are you going to school, what are you studying, how long will you be home for and we should get togethers, only you have really no intention on trying to get together but it seems to be the right thing to say. then you graduate college, move to a different part of the country and now your college friends who you’re used to seeing not only every day, but for hours and hours on end, you see only every once in a while. thank goodness for IM and email, or sadly i don’t think i would ever keep in touch with anyone, except for trung who’s a crazy mofo and loves to leave weird rants on my answering machine. soon two days turns into two weeks and then two years and pretty soon you find out that friends of yours are married/getting married/getting divorced but only through other people who you’ve managed to keep in touch with.
this didn’t intend to be a rant, but morphed into some pensive thinking
the reason i bring this up is that i keep meaning to get in touch with some of my college friends just to say hello and see how things are going. the people from my CMU days who i actually speak to on a semi-regular basis include trung, dayv, chuck, pudup & laura, jon and krissy b. what’s sad is that kimmie has been out here in the bay area for almost a year and a half now and i’ve seen her once. i’ve been meaning to give her a ring and says let’s chill, but this summer has been a little crazy and i’ve had no time for anything, not even myself really.
so, by now i’m not longer sweaty, but still hot *wink* so i’m gonna finish this up and shut the laptop and go back to reading harry potter (shut up, i know it’s been out for a while, but i only got my copy monday because it was shipping from the uk, don’t ask, it’s a long story, ask tracy, it’s her fault).
my car registered 108°F around 1pm.
