Old friends...

Someone I knew at school and was "best friends" with when I was in (*quick mental calculation*) seventh grade, contacted my father to get my email address. She wants to get together with me and reconnect. Honestly, we spent seven years at school together, and for six of those years we didn't really talk much. Sure, we got along fine, but we didn't have much in common, and I doubt that after what, five years of not seeing each other at all, and nearly ten years of only really sporadic communication, that we've gained a deep understanding of one another.

I feel churlish, not wanting to see her. This is a nice gesture on her part. Even if at the beginning of our friendship she mostly used me, I think she probably genuinely wants to catch up and have a beer and see how things are going.

I just don't have all that much mental and emotional and physical energy these days, and I don't especially feel like spending it on a girl I knew fourteen years ago. I guess that makes me a bad person. I don't know. We're working on dates now. I'm trying to limit her to one evening out after work for a drink, and hopefully that'll be it. I figure if it goes well we'll have some drinks and some laughs, and if it doesn't go well I'll plead work the next day and go home.

When did I become so misanthropic?

On the other hand, sake is wonderful

Went out last night with the girls of random_colour for sushi. Had a grand old time. Ate far too much sushi, and drank just enough sake to make me happy.

The sushi place was relatively inexpensive, as sushi places go, and the sake was quite good. I shall introduce everyone I know to it now. Muahahahaaaa!

Good food, good conversation, booze. We staggered home via metro afterward. There were presents. ai731 gave everyone a handmade glass ornament. Mine was a Christmas tree! It was very very pretty. I have a thing for trees, as I think everyone knows by now. ;)

She also very sweetly gave me a little notebook to jot down my dreams, a blue shimmery thing with a pagoda on it, and so I started doing that in the metro this morning, although it was exceedingly difficult to write at that hour with people jostling me and the metro stopping and starting all over the place. My handwriting is atrocious as a consequence, but no matter. The important part is to write. :)

*gives the finger to Microsoft*

Fuck Microsoft and the browser they rode in on.

Bah. I use Firefox, mostly, but the problem is that for some reason it won't let me upgrade to the most recent version. *grr*

Sometimes computers suck.

I'm getting Cleo back tomorrow. Party!

*grr*

Crappy liquid paper is of the devil.

That is all.

*siiiigh*

Is today over yet?