"i can tell that we are going to be friends"

the subject line is the title of a great song by the white stripes. if you've seen napoleon dynamite, you'll recognize it from the opening credits. if you haven't seen napoleon dynamite, stop reading right now and go watch it already. you are banned from reading my blog until you've seen one of the best films yet. i'm resisting all urges to stop writing this and watch it for the billionth time.
the soundtrack is really quite good too, though this song is strangely missing from it.

anyway, i've been blogging a lot lately and it's not like i have a lot going on that i need to write about. more like i have had a lot of stuff on my mind lately and i'm forcing you all to read it. i've been feeling really nostalgic lately and i'm not sure if that's because spring is just about here or because i just got home from a great visit or because of some other reason that i haven't thought of yet. maybe it's because i live in 205 now and the vibe here is totally different than it was when i first moved back to texas. and things have changed in a lot of good ways since then. tim got married, mike got a new opportunity in new mexico, shells gets to be closer to family, etc etc. lots of good stuff. but i still find myself missing those times past. when brett and mike would pull up outside my apartment on the way to northgate. when tim and cass and mike would smoke cigars in hammock chairs in the back. when shells and i would talk over mudslides trying to understand boys. when the boys and i would go to fox and hound and watch brett do ninja moves in the parking lot or i'd go to lunch with the computer guys and be the only girl and the only one to not get their computer jokes. and that's just the texas memories i have from last year i could go on even more about crazy undergrad adventures or fun times with dennis (like when he farted on a child once or crashed a 15 passenger van into a car), monica, jeremy, jed and jen. or bitch sessions with sociology peeps and the hell and adventure that brought me closer to people at marquette. i guess the reason i quoted that song up there was because i really just miss those close networks of friends that i was graced to spend various points in my life with. luckily tim and i can carry on the college station front and i'm so glad to get to hang out with him and lidia (except when tim makes me go swimming in the morning) :) and i have sara and sociology peeps to keep me sane with boys and classes and all that fun stuff. things have changed for all of us, but the friendships are still there. as the song says: "tonight i'll dream while i'm in bed, when silly thoughts go through my head, about the bugs and alphabet, when i wake, tomorrow i'll bet, that you and i will walk together again..i can tell that we are gonna be friends."

i know..i'm a fuckin' corn dog lately. bite it.

addendum: there are probably people that should have made it in that last paragraph but aren't there. i'm happy and grateful for all my friends. except for tim now who hates my corndogginess. bite it tim. :P just kidding. you all rock asses.