oh, to be 16 again...

thanks for the input on the whole guy-friend-in-love-with-me surprise situation. i've been doing some hardcore thinking, enough to fuel several blog posts. but i don't feel like talking about it now. more exciting things are in store this week, b/c tomorrow is election day! GO ROCK THE VOTE, kids! now like a good girl, i have actually already voted early! my beloved state is a "swing state" this year--so wouldn't it be nice to feel like, for once, my vote counts?

hey guess what? my high school boyfriend, brian, and i just became "friends" on...you guessed it: Facebook. i haven't spoken to brian since sometime in 1993, i believe. so it's kind of random and crazy that we should meet up and say "hi" so easily now in cyberspace. gotta love technology! he now lives in san francisco.

i heard through word-of-mouth that at one point after we broke up, he dated a girl who went wellesley, and also another girl named tracy, one of his MIT classmates who i heard was on their swim team. then later i learned that after graduating from MIT in 1994, he left boston to move out west to california to get a master's degree in civil engineering from stanford. i completely lost track of him sometime after that...probably right about 1996, perhaps around the time i graduated from mt. holyoke, maybe before(?). so, i don't know if he came back east for a while, or if he's been in the san francisco bay area ever since the 1990's.

it's kind of nice to reconnect this way even if it's superficial and maybe more appropriately called "networking". i have to admit that after looking at his somewhat minimally-detailed profile, i *am* a bit curious about some aspects of his life now, given where he lives, and given some photos of him that he has on his facebook site. but he seems happy, so hopefully that is the case. initially i didn't know whether or not i wanted to go ahead and friend him, but, there was that curiosity element that tipped my decision. and it's nice that i did, b/c it's brought back a lot of good memories. coincidentally, tonight, i noticed that my high school best friend, julie, who now lives in atlanta (and whom i also recently reconnected with on facebook), is now "facebook friends" with her high school ex-boyfriend, Karl (from when she moved away to michigan and transferred to a new high school in marquette). i sent her a message pointing out the coincidence, and she responded almost immediately, and it made me smile. oh, to be a sweet, silly sixteen again....

OK, hopefully the next time i write, we actually know who the next president will be. and of course, naturally, i hope it is the person i voted for. and wouldn't it be fun to see my state go blue?