As I write this, I'm talking with one of my most amazing friends ever. I met Alex while attending a summer session at UC Santa Cruz and we immediately bonded...after a period of awkward shyness on my part. She and I have maintained a bare minimum relationship these past 6 years, mostly due to my laziness in correspondence, by emailing once every year or two. Anyway, she just IM'd me out of the blue and we made a committment to keep in better contact--one that had been tacit ever since the summer of '00, but has now been verbalized and cemented by the sharing of official email addresses, myspace friend approvals, facebook address (on her part), and flickr account (on my part). It was weird because she was the first person I thought of when I saw this task, but hadn't got around to actually starting a letter to.

It was great to speak with her again because after the initial hihowareyou's we began talking again as if no time had passed at all.