Current mood:	relaxed
Current music:	Goo Goo Dolls - Slide

What you feel is what you are And what you are is beautiful

 Hmm, seems like we're all going through our memory boxes lately...

Last weekend I went drifting back in time through my email archives, mostly my college ones.  It was funny to see some names I hadn't seen in quite some time.  People who were once big or small players in the story of my life.  Some who'd been friends from the beginning of college, others whom I met once and tried to get to know better.  To see some messages that were small and uneventful; others that were large or small and caused quite the drama.

It's funny that the 2 people who had the biggest impact on my college life, Suzen & Cari - I have about zero emails from them from that time.  The reason for that is that I was too busy talking to both of them in person and on the phone and on IM to write emails.

I spent today being lazy - played PC, watched most of the Pistons game on TV, and then spent most of the early evening prepping my stir fry (it's amazing how long it takes me to make stir fry by myself - 2 hrs-ish).  Came upstairs around 9, got iTunes going again to listen to some music while I finished reading a book on the futon.  After listening to Cruxshadows Ethernaut again (positively hooked on that album), whimsy took me to the Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up the Girl.

Listening to Slide always takes me back to the Fall of 1999, which of course means Suzen & Cari.  All 3 of us went to see the Goo Goo Dolls play in concert at Penn State (played the BJC as I recall).  This was still early in my knowing both Suzen and Cari.  I'd known Suzen for 2-ish months at that point, and we were well past becoming fast friends.  I'd known Cari about the same time - things with us were still in the early getting to know stage, and hadn't hardened into what became the permanent almost-land.

I remember that concert, it was so much fun.  Loud, as of course concerts are.  Great energy in the crowd.  Singing along at the top of my lungs, with Suzen singing her heart out next to me.  Feeling so alive with Cari in my arms, singing the lyrics to Slide into her ear.  What a pleasant armful she always was.

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Oh may
Put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh May
Do you wanna get married or run away
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