I swear this campus is crawling with people I know. Just ran into someone I haven't seen in 4 years. Any guesses? (Most of the readers of this blog know this person...)

Apparently the BBC doesn't think there's much to report on these day, except, of course chimps smoking and bears riding bikes.

Maybe they're smoking 850 pounds of pot.

Eek. I'm not used to having actual work to do at work. The next few weeks could be rough as I re-adjust to having something to do when I come in to the office every morning :)

Friendster freaks the hell out of me. I've had an account for a while, but I never really bothered to add friends. Occasionally I'll get a request for someone to add me as a friend, and those are the times when I edit my profile to reflect moves across the country, etc.

But today I looked around a bit. Talk about world colliding! I found an ex boyfriend I haven't talked to in a long, long time. Friendster informed me that I was 4 degrees away from him. Now I only have three confirmed friends, all from college, so finding that I was connected through them to a boyfriend from grad school was deeply disturbing :) Turned out to be not that strange--the connection was through Spikey--but I think I'd prefer to be disconnected!

In any case, I sent out "please add me" things to a few people, so maybe at some point I'll have friends. Or it'll take me 12 years to look at the page again. One or the other. There were some people I could've added, but somehow the connection level felt right. You know when there are friends that really are 2 or 3 degrees away? Sometimes they become friends in their own right, but sometimes they will always be friends-of-friends.

And I had trouble looking for some of my female friends because I couldn't remember their new last names. :)

Oh, and if I didn't try to add you it's not because I don't love you. It's likely because trying to navigate around Friendster makes my head spin.

Well I was going to start saving money... Instead I am going to LA for Barlo's birthday/Labor Day. Yes, I hate SoCal, but I love the Jeppies and miss them dearly. And flights are (relatively) cheap at the moment. And Chryssi could probably talk me into anything, especially since she does things like fly here for my birthday :) Oh well, it's only money...