cyber friends

This last week or so has been the Age of the Internet Friend for me. James and Sonny, my Ultimate Blogger friends, have suddenly become more available on iChat. It’s been really nice to “talk” with them. James is back in Michigan, working on his website and moving in with buddies. Sonny is finally (thankfully) back from Afghanistan, where he was serving with the Army (Reserves?) for last two years. I have been unreasonably worried about Sonny since I started reading his blog. Even though I’ve never met him in person, and really I only know him through his blog and the comments he leaves on other blogs I read, I am still quite fond of him. He is the first person I have ever known that has been in a war (well, of my generation anyway). That kind of service and patriotism is amazing to me, and I respect him an awful lot. I am so relieved that he is safely back. We iChatted a few days ago and it was really nice.
Speaking of internet friends, David Galli is my newest internet friend. We have a really nice email correspondence going on, even though we live less than a mile apart. I have been a fan of his blog for a while now, so it’s sort of a thrill to be his pen pal. Also our characters (I can’t think of a better word here, though I’m sure there is one. Natures? Personalities?) are eerily similar. It’s really neat that we’ve become sort of close friends through the internet. People always talk about technology like it drives a wedge between human beings, or excuses us from being social creatures. I’ve found cyber-life to be just the opposite. I feel closer to my old friends, like Liz and Lucy, and have made a few new friends, thanks to the ol’ Intranets. In fact, with my crazy college life going full-throttle, email, iChats and blogs are the only things that keep me from slipping off the radar entirely.
Anyway. In my “real” life, things have calmed down quite a bit. My homeworkless weekend was amazing. AJ and I spent a lot of nice time together. We swam in a river, roller-skated, and filmed a little movie. Oh, and we also went to Target, smoked pot, and saw Wedding Crashers (which was really funny in spite of some pretty offensive homophobic humor.) Oh, and we ALSO played pool and pinball and went out for pizza. It’s weird, ever since we decided to not be boyfriend/girlfriend, we have been acting more relationshippy. In a good way. I think the pressure of the title was really getting to me, especially coming out of such a long relationship relatively recently. Anyway, this “dating” thing seems to be working alright, so I’m going to quit analyzing it in case the magic wears off!
I’ll be better at updates this week since I have NO HOMEWORK ALL WEEK!! It’s amazing.