friends

a couple of days ago my coworker jacob was looking through his server logs and noticed that several people found his site by searching for "jacob is so stupid". when we found out about it, he was near the bottom of the second page on google...

we (a.k.a. myself and other coworkers, not jacob) decided that we could do a bit of grassroots seo work for his site, and help his page rankings in the process. so if you have a minute, google "jacob is so stupid" (no quotes), and click on his blog. (his domain name is jacob.peargrove.com, the page is called "Jacob's Blog" or "Jacob’s Blog » 2007 » January").

as of the time of this post, his blog was showing up around the top of page two.

the other day i got a package in the mail and it had CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES in it! how cool is that?

i've got this friend in l.a. named sarah. and when she found out about my run of bad luck at the end of the summer, she decided i needed some cookies.

that's about the coolest thing anyone's done for me recently. thanks sarah, you rock.

it's interesting how even though people change, they stay exactly the same...

last night i was in my kitchen. i introduced myself to the girl standing next to me... but before she could tell me her name i recognized her... she lived in the same apartment complex as i did. way back in 2000. used to come over a lot. i think she had a thing for my roommate.

that's right, thinks i, she was a swing dancer. but i don't think we danced together much.

i've been avoiding posting blogs for the last couple of weeks... "if you don't have anything good to say, say nothing at all" and all that junk.

but tonight i have something good to say.

i've noticed that when a everything goes wrong, you find out just how many people care. it appears that a lot of people care about me, for some reason.

i wish i had the time--and ambition--to write about all of these people. but i don't. so this post is mostly about traci.

traci's a great friend. she's always good for a hug. she's always down with going dancing. even when we're driving to seattle to do it.

ever feel like you met someone a little too late?

i think i did.

she's getting married in a month or so. not that it really matters, i don't think we would have been friends like that.

i'm just sorry i didn't meet her before.

my single serving friend of the day is jason.

ran into him today between classes.

we go way back, jason and i... seven years back.

but i rarely see him. each encounter is another single serving experience.

today we discussed human development, developmental theorists... erikson, chickering, perry.

and then we parted ways again, not to see each other for another 6 months.

my life is an endless series of single serving encounters.

i have no permanent relationships. once best-friends are now acquaintances, acquaintances come and go.

my life itself has little permanence.