Had to be there

I haven't laughed so hard in what seems a very long time. Tonight was a very fun(ny) night in great company; exactly what the lonely heart needed.

I realized tonight more than ever that friendship isn't always about being nice to another person--it's about being your honest self with another person who will not only accept you for who you are, but who will appreciate you for you, no matter how bizarre it might be.

    "If I didn't know you guys were friends, I'd have thought you were enemies."

I stand by the fact that true friends are the ones who trust in the strength of their bond to the point where they'll put it on the line if something's important enough. Case in point: I cared more for my friend's happiness in life and love so much so that I put our friendship on the line by telling her she shouldn't marry the one she was engaged to. We didn't speak for months. And then she called--he was gone. She was my friend, and still is--perhaps now more than ever.

Your friends are the ones who aren't afraid to be brutally honest with you to save you from something worse.

    "There's parsley in your teeth."
    "Those pants make you look fat."
    "That vacuum's too expensive."
    "She's bad for you."
    "You deserve more than that."

And in turn, your friends are the ones that you listen to; whose advice you don't just shrug off or get defensive towards. The perfect friendship is the most symbiotic one--you're there for each other.

And the perfect relationship, is when you find that the one you love is also your best friend.
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A bit of a digression, but the end point is the same--I love those girls.

Present Tip #2

    "I don't want something I need, I want something I want."

First lecture introduction

    "JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, I'M NOT YELLING BECAUSE I'M ANGRY--I'M YELLING BECAUSE THIS IS THE WAY I TALK."
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According to Brodder, this was a point that had to be made, though it didn't make the prof any less intimidating.

In the pudding

    "So does absence make the heart grow fonder?"
    "Yes. Oh my God, yes."

Filed safely away

In the midst of an office move, I found myself sorting through files and papers I hadn't laid eyes on in a long while. Holding a stack of papers together as a makeshift folder, I found these words, neatly printed in my own writing--probably pertinent at the time, but now just mysterious mutterings to remind myself of a notion now forgotten.

    I'd come back to save you.

    Simple things to make me smile:
        - coffee stains on the counter
        - pages and pages of largely scrawled ingenuity
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And to make me melt, I can find these words elsewhere...put there just for me.

I wish I could do better by you,
Cos that's what you deserve.
You sacrifice so much of your life,
In order for this to work.

While I'm off chasing my own dreams,
Sailing around the world,
Please know that I'm yours to keep,
My beautiful girl.

And when you cry a piece of my heart dies,
Knowing that I may have been the cause,

If you were to leave,
fulfill someone elses dreams,
I think I might totally be lost.

You don't ask for no diamond rings,
No delicate string of pearls,
That's why I wrote this song to sing,
My beautiful girl.

"The girl" -City and Colour
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Love you now and forever.

Welcome distraction

Once in a while you encounter something that just throws you off your game. Your mind spins trying to get around it, your heart pounds from the effort, your knees go weak, you start to shake, and you just can't explain it. It sucks, but it happens.
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    "Distract me."
    "Want to see my penis?"
    "Perfect. Thanks, I needed that."
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When some people get nervous, they fidget with something; many people toy with their rings. I wear rings. Three. One of them is pretty, one of them is healing, and one of them reminds me that it won't be too much longer.
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Twenty-two days and nine posts into the new year; I feel like I've already lived this month for a century.

Inauguration Day!

"There are going to be a lot of Kleenex moments."
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There are four people in the office; three of them (one of them being me) are streaming CNN.com live on their laptops while they work. A page in the history book is being written today--a factoid date sure to be plastered in trivia games from now on.