Friends

I'll repost a comment I made on one of Nathan's earlier contributions, because it was from a while ago and I doubt anyone will read it now: "I like these occassional reminders that Nathan isn't a cynical bastard but really a sentimental schmuck pretending to be a cynical bastard."

I think that could go for this whole blog.

Anyway, I haven't said anything on here for a while, and I was thinking about it today, and this made me think about a question I got asked the other day, which was whether my better friends were at college or back home. This felt like kind of a weird question, and I think I answered with some sort of noncommittal noise.

But the question stuck with me. Tonight I walked into my room after a volleyball match at the other university in town, and I found half a burrito from the local taqueria sitting by my laptop, which was delicious and understandably swayed me in the direction of my college friends for a moment, particularly in the direction of my burrito-bestowing roommate.

Last night we had a bunch of friends in my room and I made everyone strawberry milk and we broke out the guitars and the tiny set of bongos on my shelf and it quite enjoyable, especially because it was the first time we'd had a group like that in the room because our room is slightly smaller than all the others (my roommate was so excited he ran ahead of the group to tidy up).

The night before, I stayed up till 4:30 in the morning talking about philosophical things with people after an epic game of risk and then slept over in a friends room. These kind of things are fun, and they happen more at college than they have any right to with all the studying I'm supposed to be doing, and I suspect that my colleagues in darkest new york / rural Pennsylvania engage in such things with similar frequency. It sort of makes one wonder about this recession we're supposed to be having...

I've sort of lost the point of this, if there ever was a point, but I guess if this blog is meant partially to update people then I guess I'll say that currently I'm feeling pretty jolly about things, and that its nice to have friends everywhere, especially ones that will read your distorted musings at 2:00 in the morning and 3,000 miles away.