Assorted Ravings of the Slightly-Weird

BQOTDs

I had dinner with some old friends on Tuesday night.

There are the friends that you need to keep in constant touch with, else you lose the connection and run out of things to say. And then there are those friends that you can not see for years on end but when you do meet up the friendship picks right back up from where it left off and the intervening years fall away in a flash.

Funnily enough, most of those in the latter category come from my early years. They're mostly friends from my school years, stretching from primary school all the way up to junior college. Maybe it was the shared trauma of school that led us all to bond the way we have, or maybe it was the fact that for the most part of school life you saw and interacted with these people on a daily basis for the majority of the day, unlike now where the levels of interaction are more diluted as individual lives fracture off in different directions.

Anyhow, I had a great time on Tuesday catching up with these gals. It was a night with lots of laughter and lots of quotable quotes.

1) From she who was interviewing for a teaching position:
Interviewer: Why do you want to teach here?
She: Because I don't want to teach at the top JCs.
(stunned silence)

2) From she who had her pants stolen and replaced with a pair of much shorter pants:
She: Somewhere there's a guilty pygmy walking around...

Ah, friends. What would we do without them?

P.S. Happy birthday L!

Posted by scrabbyfoo at January 31, 2008 12:03 PM