I was thinking of some of those people I used to know. like my fifth-grade best friend. according to my dad (whose first language is not english), my mom saw her in a store recently: "Mom met *** in Albertsons. She is not a hairdresser anymore. Her neck is tilted. She looks old and is selling cosmetics in a store." but what about the others? the guy I almost kissed in the downtown chicago marriott on halloween night in 1992 at the college journalists conference. I wore a short red-violet seersucker dress with gray tights. my blond alcoholic sorority chick friend, who talked me and the other reluctant seattle attendee into going to the hard rock cafe earlier that day, said this ucs* guy was cute, but I wasn't convinced until we got home and I saw the photos. I got him stoned with the good northwest bud I brought with me on the plane and we drank my friend's booze and I didn't kiss him, we just sat close together on the hotel room floor between the bed and the tv set. I wonder if he's married now. some people finder says he lives in northridge, california. where the hell is that?

I think that's near where Nate lives. (This guy's name's not Ian/is it? Becuz Nate's got a roommate named Ian. Plus he knows everybody worth knowing out there...) Wdn't that be just too 6-degrees-of-seperation?

i sent a letter to o##'s school, to the president. i told him that one of his students was posting offensive, racist comments on the internet, and gave him the url's to some of the threads. it made me happy. don't know if it did anything, but it made me happy anyhow.

Wait -- did I miss something? Who's 0###?

I looked on a map of california, and it seems that northridge is (40 miles?) north of l.a., sort of equidistant from l.a. and santa monica. it looks like a tres shitty place. his name isn't ian. my friend at the national gay and lesbian task force is saying he doesn't really want to go to our high school reunion but has hinted that he may be able to be talked into it. I think I will have to stress to him that we need only attend one of the events, not all three.

northridge is 6+ hours from where i live. in the dirty southern part of the state.

it is where all the water goes that they suck out of our part of the state, to fill their pools and wash their cars.

bless you, agatha

s'nuthing.