Adornable

Hello Stephanie,

As I said in Arianna’s unfriending, your’s would come in due time. Well as I would expect nothing less, your profile snuck off to the fringes and managed to go unnoticed for quite a while. I gotcha now though, and its goin down!

In any case like I said in her post meeting you guys was a blur. I don’t know if you actually are the type to see social awkwardness coming, but you always did a pretty stellar job keeping me focused in on the conversation. Arianna would be cycling on about something or other, and I would probably be lost, and you would pipe up, say like one sentence, and see that I am reengaged, then Arianna would continue.

It was kind of like good cop, bad cop, but you guys were both good.

You are from all account a splendidly kind, and considerate girl. If ever I had to trudge into some unfamiliar culture I could be so lucky as to have you with me. I am fairly sure that smile of yours is more or less a universal language. I really wish I had talked to you more, but when you guys took off overseas, and then there was all that time away, and it just seemed silly that one could just pick up conversation after all that happened.

I have never chatted with you on fb, and your updates in my news feed have been more or less non-existent. So I assume this unfriending will probably go unnoticed for a while (if at all). That’s ok though. I know for a fact you have my email, so if ever, whenever you feel like chatting, just drop me a line.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt

Do the watusi!

Dear Cara,

My it’s been a while. I think the last time I actually spoke to you in person was at the international terminal at O’hare. I kind of froze when I saw you, it was kind of like seeing a mirage. I though what are the chances I would run into a kzoo person here? I was picking up a friend and I think you were heading out. There were words involved but I think both of us just did our best “English gentry” impersonation and then parted company.

I remember meeting you in context to Anders. I think you two might have been dating, but I could be mistaken. It was weird that someone besides Matt in that house was seeing someone, and I remember it being a curiosity to me. It also turned out you knew a few other people I did, but pretty much every interaction we have had has been through the conduit of another mutual friend.

I have kept you on my friends list all this time because you are a strange bird. Its not anything specific that you do, but more about how you seem to do things in general. I always got the feeling that you were disconnected from the world around you as much as I am, but somehow you pull it off and end up seeming more interesting than eccentric, eccentric being the nice word for crazy, but not homeless crazy.

I will miss your rather infrequent news updates, and being that you are now in some other state and married, this may indeed be the little death that preceeds the big one as friendships go. I hope, maybe somehow I will see you in the airport again, or the café, or maybe on the street haggling at a garage sale. In anycase your presence will be missed.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt

We built this city on rock and rooooooohoool

Dear Emily,

As a fellow blogger you may understand the vicious cycle of posting. Everyday is a sort of challenge, balancing your need to post something against your fear of no one actually reading it. While I am surely doing this for myself, the nasty demon that is analytics has begun to plague me. When I see that the numbers drop my motivation for writing follows it’s trajectory. Being witty or in some cases just coherent becomes a monumental challenge. All the same, push on, because really what else could you do with that half hour of your life?

I sorely miss you and Jason in Kzoo. While we didn’t have oodles of time together you guys were a couple I deeply enjoyed being around and that is saying a lot. You two seemed perfectly paired, but not in that “doomed to reality” way I tend to see most happy couples. When I was around talking to you or Jason I always felt like someone was actually listening to what I had to say, though often what I was saying was equal parts bullshit and crowd-pleasing banter. I do still plan I trying to visit you all in the city, as I know this is now home for you both, and even a day or so might be nice just to get an in person update on how you are doing.

I can’t remember if I have ever chatted to either of you on FB, or really exchanged any worthwhile contact through there, but it has been nice to see you on my newsfeed every now and again. It has been my experience that when people live in a big city it seems almost absurd to want to be on FB. Us Midwesterners tend to treat FB as a dwelling, where ya’ll city folk treat it like a newsstand. Why lurk through news feeds and friends photos when you could be out and about in the booming metropolis?

I must say again, I miss you guys, but I am sure thought the gmailin’s and the like we will keep in touch. If ever you need anything please please let me know.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt