Tonight, Des and I sat on her bed and sifted through boxes of college photos, squealing with delight as we traded pile after pile. Our giddy chatter went something like this:
“Remember this guy?”
“Ew, gross!”
“Oh my God, what were we wearing?”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so cute!”
“We were so … SKINNY!”
She let me [...]

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Another geektastic e-mail thread between my group of friends:
Friend 1: Anyone else get a bump in Gmail storage? I was at 75% usage of my 3GB. I have this now: You are currently using 2214 MB (53%) of your 4170 MB.
Me: Mine says this: You are currently using 1224 MB (28%) of your 4259 MB. [...]

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Me: We should do a night out with the girls.
Des: Yeah, we should.
Me: Friday?
Des: I can’t. I’m going camping with my roommates. Actually, girls night sounds fun. Maybe I’ll skip camping.
Me: Well, Matt’s also planning a movie night this Friday. I might want to go to that.
Des: That sounds fun, too. Let’s [...]

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I received an e-mail from my friend Jess today. She’s alive! She just completed her first week of boot camp in Rhode Island. Not the same type of boot camp that I sobbed through in Arizona, but REAL LIFE BOOT CAMP where there ain’t no money-back guarantees or free e-newsletters.
When Jess first told me that [...]

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Ever since I graduated college four years ago (holy crapoly!), I’ve noticed that while I’ve long shoved my textbooks into storage (except for “Conception To Birth” — there are some quality diagrams in there, I tell ya), almost all of my friends have continued their studies. This has become even more apparent now that everyone [...]

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More signs that you are a grownup: When you spend Memorial Day Weekend not at a drunken apartment balcony barbeque but at SeaWorld, holding onto a pen and methodologically checking off the must-see attractions on your map. And instead of throwing on a plastic trashbag and racing to Shamu’s Splash Zone, you and your friends [...]

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Congratulations Shivani! She went ahead and got engaged (engaged!) while I was away in stinky China, testing out various squatting strategies. I’m totally happy for her and not in that fake sort of way. You know, like the whole, “Oh, that’s great, but: (choose one) 1) Aren’t you a little young? 2) You’ve only known [...]

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Had dinner with Nao and Shivani tonight at the new RA Sushi in Torrance. Good grownup times. It’s amazing how after three years of separation, you can spend a half hour recapping the lost time (”… livedinAZitwashotgotnewjobmovedhome … your turn!”), and then start right back at where you left off (”So, a friend of mine [...]

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