state of virginia

i'm really happy that jim webb won. by a stroke of fate my sister ended up voting with me, so we successfully cancelled out our parents' say. and in a small way, we helped get a democrat in. and not that i was following the other elections going on, but it's nice that webb's win gained the spotlight so dramatically by being the last race in the air. i was pleasantly surprised by alan's stepping down - a noble gesture and very unlike the party that he so often epitomizes.

chaz is throwing a big one-year-anniversary bash down at his record shop in durham, which i unfortunately won't be able to attend due to a wedding(which will be an awesome wedding so i certainly won't be lacking for fun this weekend). i was especially excited to have the chance to speak with gabe face to face finally, after his dodging my attempts at communication for the past two or three months. that's the funny thing about screwing over a friend - you have mutual friends and you will eventually run into each other again. gabe - let's just be friends. besides the fact that by us being friends again would mean i get my money back from the brooklyn apartment, it would also mean that we could be friends again, a la the past seven or eight years. and we've had more than our fair share of hilarious moments together.

that reminds me of another friend who's travelling abroad right now. she was saying that i was the only person who she had known for more than three or four years who she still kept up with outside of her family. i was at first shocked, but then it made sense. i'm bad at keeping up with other people in the sense that i'm not much for maintaining constant contact with people. but i do think about and check in with those people that i care about. while i was in morocco i would go months without e-mailing friends back home(though i had the general venue of mog to expound upon my experiences there, as well as other web-based mediums). the second that i see a friend again, whether it's been weeks or years since i've hung out with them, things are fun again. there's some friends who i e-mail maybe once a year and might not ever see again. that moment of catching up momentarily, however, no matter how removed, is great. thinking about someone and knowing they're thinking of you too is a small piece of darshan. and now and then, when i run into an old friend again who i'd resigned to message-in-a-bottle status, that usually ends up being a meeting worth remembering.

peace