March 1, 2009

• Today is the birthday of several of my friends.  I woke up with this strange memory:

  Last time the four of us met up in Gainesville--Brandy, Mya, Gail, and myself, we met up at the Oak's Mall, and pretty much tried catching up on all the years that had elapsed since last seeing each other.  Gail had to leave early, (she's a birthday girl today, so I think thinking of her triggered this random memory), so I don't think she was with us during this part of my memory:

  We walked into Spencer's (filled with some funny random stuff and some disgusting stuff, a store I don't usually visit), and there we saw a boa with fake marijuana leaves, as opposed to feathers.  A few seconds later, this man stumbled past us and started caressing the marijuana leaves/boa and moaned, "Why isn't it real?!".  We tried not to laugh as we ran from the store.

  (These boas, not the snakes.)

  In some ways, I feel bad for addicts.  On one hand, they brought their own plights upon themselves.  But after a certain point, I guess it is something hard to control.  I hope the guy we came across was just doing that for laughs.
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  Gail's in Austria now, but I believe she will be coming back soon.  She went there to study for a year before starting college.  I saw Brandy and Gail before Gail left for Austria, but I haven't seen Mya since that day.  It is sad to see how friends can drift so far into awkwardness.  Especially since technology has become so powerful.  Maybe some day by fate all our paths will again cross.  Or maybe one day we will plan to meet again.  I can make a list of friends that I wish I could get back in touch with again, but time has made everything awkward.

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