Sometimes I feel so far away from the person I was in high school. Even the person I was freshmen year of college. Sometimes its like I don't even know who I am anymore.
But I guess that's a feeling I've grown accustomed to.
On Monday, I was sitting in a Starbucks, trying to write my next article when I received a Facebook message from Mariah.
"Hey, I'm sort of in San Diego."
The next night, she and the friend she was visiting, Vanessa, came to my apartment and we walked to Starbucks. I met Mariah, after five years of friendship through OpenDiary (and later, Facebook, Tumblr and now Prosebox?).
It was weird to have a physical manifestation of such a private part of my life standing in front of me--but also truly incredible to meet someone face to face after so long.
(Mariah, why didn't we take a selfie to document the moment?)
Obviously, Mariah was lovely and Vanessa was lovely. It's a strange intimacy to have basically read someone's diary for five years (isn't it more like seven years now?) and then be chilling on a bench on my college campus watching a skunk cruise around. I suppose those are the most important relationships. It wasn't even an introduction or meeting. More like an "Oh, you again."
Like, what a special moment. :)
Perhaps someday the original OD gang can have a meet-up. Mariah, Taylor, Carly?
In the meantime, life has gone back to normal and the moment has passed. I turned in my keys at my apartment, my new apartment has no A/C and today I had production at the Daily Aztec.
Summer is slowly ending and I'm wishing I didn't have to work so much (hahahah I work 20 hours a week). But I'd rather work full 8 hour days for 3 or 4 days a week, instead of until 1 pm every day. I want to go home and go to museums and Disneyland and enjoy the last weeks of summer. Also, I'm starting to get tired of my job. Mostly because I'm by myself all day and I hate my boss. I'm not sure how I'm expected to fit in 20 hours a week once the semester starts when there's really not enough for me to do for 20 hours and I'm a full-time student with a second (first?) job and other extracurriculars. Like professors, bosses always assume they are your top priority.
Tomorrow I'm going to the beach and seeing Mary Poppins and Les Mis on Sunday. Then it's August.
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